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.
Atlas missile 51D's launch, test number 775 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. View of Atlas 51D take off from launch pad. Large explosion soon after few seconds of its launch. (Note: This missile suffered combustion instability in one engine. The Range Safety officer sent the destruct command only a few seconds after launch and it fell back through the launch stand and exploded. LC-13 took extensive damage and was out of use for six months.)
Views of what appears to be a smooth launching of a Titan missile. The service structure erector is released and the missile takes off. The camera tracks it as it moves ever higher, with rocket motors burning smoothly. As its image begins to get quite small in the distance, at TC:01:26, the missile begins failing, and explodes in a huge fireball. (Note: This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.) This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.
Astronaut Alan Shepard in procedure trainer, he operates it. He talks on headsets. John Glenn at test control panels talks on headsets. Astronaut Alan Shepard exits the procedure trainer. Technicians operate consoles. Astronaut Shepard and technicians talk. Alan Shepard reenters into trainer. Inside the trainer.
United States VC-54G air plane parked on flight line. Major General David William Hutchison stands and then boards a plane at Sewart Air Force Base in Tennessee. Scene of propeller while taxiing from passenger compartment.
Large submarine, USS Patrick Henry, SSBN-599, laying off Newport in United States. Crew members and officers on the submarine. Patrick Henry in the mid stream. Blast of air and water comes from the missile tube as a sabot is fired. The United States flag on the ship.
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