Activities before Space Shuttle Atlantis launched at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Orbiter 104 Atlantis on mission 51-J. Flight crew including Flight Commander Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karl J Bobko, Pilot Air Force Major Ronald Grabe and mission specialists Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Richard Mullane, Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stewart and Marine Captain David Hilmers leave Operations and Control building and leave in transfer van.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Orbiter 104 Atlantis on mission 51-J. Space Shuttle program Brochure is shown. Boy helps little girl drink from soft drink can. Cape Kennedy employees and families on bleachers waiting to watch launch. Crowd watches the lift-off. Emblem for Kennedy Space Center and the flight crew rest on a notebook. A couple wears badges. People seated on the ground to watch the launch. Several people carry binoculars and camera. Crowd cheers when the shuttle is launched. View of Atlantis speeding upward spewing fire. Flag of NASA and the U.S. flag.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Orbiter 104 Atlantis on mission 51-J. Atlantis launched from Launch Pad 39. Space shuttle Atlantis in the sky after it gets launched. Smoke trails.
United States Military Academy air indoctrination at Eglin Air Force base in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. Officer delivers speech to a group in hangar. Pictures and charts mounted at the back of instructor. Cadet looks into cockpit of a jet aircraft in hangar. Group attends lecture inside hangar. Men look into cockpit and other areas of various jet aircraft. Cadets look at an exhibition of snakes in pit. A toy balloon in the pit area. Sergeant milks venom from rattle snake into glass tumbler. Sergeant holds head and tail of rattle snake.
The U.S. Presidential Yacht, Potomac, in Florida. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes along with others, on board. People stand on the pier. Buildings and trees in the background. The President and Interior Secretary pose with others on board. President Franklin D. Roosevelt waves his hat as the Presidential Yacht leaves the harbor.
Project Vanguard successfully launches United States satellite 'Moon' into an orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. A missile at a launch pad. A man stands with a model of the satellite. Men stand in the launching area. The missile is launched, it goes up. Fire flames at the tail of the missile. Fire dot of the missile in the sky with a smoke line behind it.
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