Atlas missile 27E launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Missile ready for the launch. It falls with a large explosion on the ground. Fire and black smoke rises from the explosion.
Atlas missile 27E launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. View of Atlas 27E ready to launch. Large explosion on the ground soon after its launch. Fire and black smoke rises from the explosion. (Note: This was the ninth E-series Atlas launched and the first from the West Coast. The missile suffered combustion instability in one booster engine, the resultant asymmetrical thrust causing it to tip over and explode on impact with the silo wall. OSTF-1 suffered extensive damage and did not host another launch for nine months.)
Atlas missile 27E launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. View of a launch pad and Atlas 27E ready to launch.
View of waterfalls, mountains and serene lakes in California. Song in background about western United States before railroads existed there. Still photos and sketches railroad pioneer Theodore Dehone Judah, and of Chinese workers and other laborers as they work to build the railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains beginning in 1865. Pictures of early railroad building, westward expansion, and men building a railroad bridge. Train moving between mountain valleys. Still photo from May 10, 1869 of workers from the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads celebrating at Promontory, Utah, when their two railroad lines were joined together to realize the goal of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Man performs stunts with a 9 months old baby in Los Angeles, California. He balances baby on his hands, turns him around, holds baby's head and circles. Baby smiles and claps.
People move on a four horses driven cart during 50th Anniversary of Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California (1 University Circle Bldg. 220, Monterey, CA 93943, United States). Participants are dressed in the fashion of 1880s to celebrate the anniversary of the luxury resort hotel. They arrive at a place in a horse-cart and get down from the cart. People drive various kinds of cycles and bicycles, including a Penny Farthing. A 6-person tandem cycle is driven by six people.
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