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Preparation and testing of single explosion model of Project Orion.

A documentary report on the testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by means of series of nuclear detonations. Technicians work on model. Preparation and testing of single explosion models suspended from a tower. Explosions under the model suspended. Worker climbs a ladder to model that is suspended from tower while technicians look at the model. Model taken for inspection. Technicians examine the model.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039741
Details of reverse shock absorber built of polystyrene pads for Project Orion model.

Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by means of series of nuclear detonations. A technician places polystyrene pads on plate which is shock absorber for Project Orion model. Technicians try to fix plate on model. Effects of explosion on shock absorber plate are tested. A model suspended from a tower. One, two and three-shot test of model by making explosions. Operation of the multiple charge ejection system.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039742
A five-shot free flight test with a model weighing 250 pounds

Testing for small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by means of series of nuclear detonations. Operation of the multiple charge ejection system. A five-shot free flight test with a model weighing 250 pounds.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039743
Three-shot free flight test of model and successful parachute recovery operation.

Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by series of nuclear detonations. Flight tests with a model weighing 250 pounds. A model going aloft for a three-shot flight and making a successful parachute landing.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039744
Successful six-shot flight test of Project Orion small scale model.

Testing of small scale models for Project Orion, which is the study of a method for propelling multi-ton vehicles into space by a series of nuclear detonations, called nuclear pulse propulsion. A successful six-shot flight test of a Project Orion model is seen.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039745
Boys speak about their discovery of buried gold coins and how it will help them financially.

A film titled 'Boys dig up pot of gold'. View of the three story row house at 132 S. Eden Street in Baltimore, Maryland. View of a basement window on the building. View inside an office of two teenage boys, Theodore Jones and Henry Grob, standing in front of a desk covered by gold coins they discovered when digging a hole in the basement of the Eden Street building in August 1934. Close-up view of the gold coins and the degraded metal can that had held them when they discovered it underground. (Their discovery yielded 3,558 gold coins dating from the 1830s-1850s, with a face value of $11,200.) Henry Grob speaks and says, "I'm glad tthat the decision of Judge O'Dunne (Judge Eugene O'Dunne) was in our favor, because now I can complete my education, buy my mother a home, and help others in my family who are in need." Theodore Jones then adds, "That's a swell idea. I think I'll do the same." Close-up view of hands of a man picking up a number of the coins.

Location: Baltimore Maryland USA
Date: 1935, February 20
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039748
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