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Astronauts board H-21B helicopter to reach Desert Command Post near Stead Air Force base, Nevada.

NASA Astronauts undergo survival training near Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Board reads 'Stead Air Force Base Welcomes You'. Training instructed by Captain Robert W. Weaver. Astronauts Lt Malcolm S Carpenter; Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, USAF; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF walk out of the building and board H-21B helicopter. Two Helicopter in flight to Desert Command post. Astronauts improvise protective clothing at desert command post.

Date: 1960, July 13
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023345
Astronauts and other service personnel eat food at Desert Command post near Stead Air Force Base, Nevada.

NASA astronauts undergo survival training near Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Food Service personnel from Stead AFB prepare meal and lay the table at Desert Command post. Astronauts Lt Malcolm S Carpenter; Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, USAF; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF and other personnel eat food. Service Personnel prepare breakfast.

Date: 1960, July 13
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023346
Astronauts undergo survival training in the desert near Stead Air Force base, Nevada.

NASA Astronauts undergo survival training in the desert near Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Astronaut Alan B Shepard wears improvised sunglasses and enters emergency shelter of parachute in the desert. Astronauts walk towards temporary shelter in the desert. They drink some water in the command post and then walk towards H-21B helicopters and board one of the four parked in the desert.

Date: 1960, July 17
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023340
Astronauts arrive at desert command post during survival training in the desert near Stead Air Force base, Nevada.

NASA Astronauts undergo survival training in the desert near Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Astronauts arrive at desert command post with H-19B in flight. They discuss survival with instructor and leave the command post. H-21B helicopters parked on dirt road with its rotor turning. Helicopters take off.

Date: 1960, July 17
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023341
Young men horsing around in motel swimming pool

Young men swimming and splashing in a motel swimming pool. Guests lying down in lounge chairs near the pool. A man pours cold water over his African-American friend lying in lounge chair. Men jumping into pool while yelling.

Date: 1967
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079700
1937 Ohio Valley flood scenes, with major loss of property and life in the United States.

Damage caused by 1937 flood in the Ohio Valley area of the United States. A heavy loss of property due to a flood. Supplies being unloaded from trucks for the people. People being rescued from the areas affected by flood. Men aboard boats moving through buildings on the edge of the Ohio River that are submerged in water. Men moving a wooden casket. Destroyed houses and buildings in the areas. Flooded streets. A weather vane blowing briskly in wind. Narrator details how the weather bureau forecasts the weather and offers the information to help prevent losses from such disasters. Automatic typing machine records weather instrument readings. View of newspapers being printed at a printing press. A radio tower. People gather near injured flood victims. People lined up on the street to get supplies. Scenes of floodwaters below Memphis where flooding was effectively contained. Water rushing under the then new Bonnet Carre spillway of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. Man opens a book published in Lisbon in 1605, now in the Library of Congress, written by Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, reporting on the exploration team of De Soto on leaf 300 of the book. De Soto's group, in 1543, reported on the flood they saw below current day Memphis, extending over 20 leagues of land, covering the tops of trees, but not overrunning the homes of the Native Americans who build shelter atop high poles. A view of submerged homes in the 1937 flood are shown as the narrator laments that more modern people did worse than the Native American Indians.

Date: 1937, January
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062901