Activities before Space Shuttle Atlantis launched at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Orbiter 104 Atlantis on mission 51-J. Flight crew including Flight Commander Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karl J Bobko, Pilot Air Force Major Ronald Grabe and mission specialists Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Richard Mullane, Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stewart and Marine Captain David Hilmers leave Operations and Control building and leave in transfer van.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Orbiter 104 Atlantis on mission 51-J. Space Shuttle program Brochure is shown. Boy helps little girl drink from soft drink can. Cape Kennedy employees and families on bleachers waiting to watch launch. Crowd watches the lift-off. Emblem for Kennedy Space Center and the flight crew rest on a notebook. A couple wears badges. People seated on the ground to watch the launch. Several people carry binoculars and camera. Crowd cheers when the shuttle is launched. View of Atlantis speeding upward spewing fire. Flag of NASA and the U.S. flag.
Views of San Francisco, California from the Marin Headlands. A ship underway on the San Francisco Bay and passes beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. City view in the background from the bridge, and the San Francisco Peninsula overall. The Transamerica Tower clearly visible. Alcatraz Island in the middle of the Bay.
An aerial view of the city of Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Views of countryside and of city factories, homes, and other features, .Numerous U.S. P-40 warhawk airplanes parked on a ramp, along with several training planes, at Wheeler Field. The final scenes include the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, on Waikiki Beach, and the Diamond Head volcanic ridge overlooking Waikiki.
Naval aircraft operations at Navy airfield on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after U.S. entry into World War Two. A biplane Grumman J2F utility plane taxis. Two of them take off. A USN PBY-5A Catalina taxis on the airbase. Two Navy ground crew seated on a bench at the airbase, watching the airplanes. A land version of OS2U-3 Kingfisher, with fixed landing gear, taxis in and several ground crew help it to park. Also shown are new Brewster F2A-3 fighters.
U.S. Navy TBF Avenger air crews being briefed by a group commander, on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during World War 2. A long line of Avengers parked with wings folded. They start engines and begin to taxi with wings still folded.
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