Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. Airmen and an officer beneath the aircraft. They push a dolly loaded with Q -bay ( equipment bay) hatch beneath the aircraft. The Q-bay hatch is held in place and tightened. A bespectacled airman in the cockpit. He looks out of the canopy. He checks equipment in the cockpit.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. A bespectacled airman checks equipment in the cockpit. An officer and airmen push away a dolly from beneath the aircraft. An airman rotates the handle of an equipment. Airmen help a pilot in donning gloves and helmet.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Technicians remove equipment from the Q-bay ( equipment bay) of a Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. The equipment is loaded on a dolly and is covered with a sheet. The dolly is pushed away.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A car is driven down towards an entrance at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. Film boxes are unloaded from the car and are loaded on a trolley by airmen. A captain accompanies the trolley being pushed towards a photo laboratory. The captain rings a bell for admittance to the laboratory. A board on the door of the laboratory proclaims it to be a restricted area. The door is opened and the trolley is pushed into the laboratory.
President John Kennedy at speaker's stand in a news conference. He urges everyone to pray more at home and attend church more often and support the Supreme Court's decision on landmark case Engel v. Vitale. Crowd listens to President Kennedy.
Officials and men gathered at a plane parked. Man wears a back pack. Plane taxis on runway for take off. Men inside the plane assist astronaut with back pack. Astronaut floats in air after using jet propelled back pack.
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