First American to orbit the earth Colonel John Glenn in the United States. He is seated in NASA Mercury capsule Friendship 7 in the United States. Glenn wearing a helmet and space suit. A technician closes the door of the capsule cockpit.
The launch of Atlas missile with mercury capsule Friendship 7 in the United States. Technicians in a blockhouse seated behind panel boards. The technicians wearing headphones. A top of mercury space capsule as the Atlas missile is launched. The missile passes through a frame.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Aeronautics and Space report on tornadoes in the United States. Still images of various activities at NASA. A missile at a launch pad. Apollo crew in space suits. A NASA aircraft in flight. A rocket lifts off. NASA moonwalk by Neil Armstrong. Scene shifts to footage of actual tornadoes in the United States. View as the thin tube of a tornado reaches from cloud to ground. Cars parked in the foreground. The formation of tornado in the background. Damage of homes due to tornado. Men near a police van. Men enter a house in the aftermath of a tornado.
NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Aeronautics and Space Report on tornadoes. A NASA scientist, sitting next to a tornado simulation device in a laboratory, speaks (not heard) about tornado formation. Another official takes printouts of meteorological charts. A NASA official operates a radar. A NASA official takes picture of cloud formations from an aircraft. NASA officials look into the pictures taken from the aircraft . NASA scientist actuates a tornado simulating device that demonstrates the formation of tornadoes in the laboratory. Views of actual tornadoes counterpoised with laboratory simulations. Several more views of actual tornadoes. Animation of NASA logo symbol forming on screen as narrator concludes the program.
Scenes of actual tornadoes photographed in the United States. View inside the U.S.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Center at Norman Oklahoma. Meteorologists at desks and monitoring radar screens. A radar dome and view of antenna rotating inside. A U.S. Air Force RF-4c aircraft in flight providing observations to the Weather Center, where meteorologists are tracking severe weather returns on radar.
View of the buildings and grounds of the U.S. National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma. A U.S. Air Force technician working with NSSL meteorologists at computers and radar monitoring stations. Several outdoor radar domes on towers. A horse grazing on the NSSL grounds. A sign identifying the NSSL with NOAA logo and words: "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" and "U.S. Department of Commerce." Radar images of the continental United States showing severe weather areas. Meteorologists tracking the severe weather by radar and typing real-time reports of observations.
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