Pre launch activities of Redstone Mercury (MR) 3. MR-3 in gantry at night. LOX vent and technicians work around base of Redstone. A sign reads 'United'. Smoke comes out from a pipe. A van in the background. A technician stands with a tool in his hand. Different equipment attached to MR-3. A sign reads 'Hard Hat Area'.
Pre launch activities of Redstone Mercury (MR) 3. MR-3 in gantry. Technicians work around base of Redstone. Smoke arises from MR-3. Technicians look at MR-3. A man with headphones. A cameraman sets up TV equipment on roof of station wagon. MR-3 in gantry shows LOX venting. Technicians stand on the base. A man gets in a van.
Pre launch activities of Redstone Mercury (MR) 3. MR-3 in gantry at night. Technicians work on the base of Redstone. Smoke arises from MR-3. A sign reads 'United'. Technician works on MR-3. Refueling of missile. Technician looks at the missile. Technicians in a group look at missile and talk. MR-3 in gantry and technicians around it. LOX vent is left out by thy missile. Technicians inside gantry. Technicians at work.
View of ground data collections at Cape Canaveral, Manchester, England, Singapore and Hawaii. Atlas D Missile on dolly. C-133B with its cargo doors open parked in the background. Atlas-Able 5A on launch pad. Aero jet General technicians work on the launch of second stage of Atlas-Able launch. Technicians manning consoles at missile block house. Atlas-Able 5A ignition and lift-off. Tracking station radar screen. Atlas-Able 5B on launch pad at prior dawn hour. Missile being launched with its lift off and climb. Atlas-Able 5B second stage explosion in air. Personnel in a meeting. Recovered missile parts.
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.
Technicians prepare the space capsule for launch. United States flag. United States written on space capsule. Space capsule named as 'Aurora 7'. Lieutenant Commander John Glenn talks on telephone. Technicians make adjustments to space capsule.
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