Preparations for launch of Soviet Union Voshkhod-2 spacecraft from Baikonur spaceport, during 1960s "space race" between Soviet Union and the United States. Voshkod 2 of R-7 family of rockets seen on a rail car. The rail car pulls up with spacecraft and rocket is loaded onto gantry. The space craft and the launch vehicle are erected. View of cosmonaut as he ascends stairs, enters an elevator and prepares for flight. A fiery flare emerges as the spacecraft is launched. (Note: Image of spacecraft during initial ascent appears to show a Vostok 3KA launcher, or Vostok-K, like that in which Yuri Gagarin was launched; not the Voskhod variant that carried Alexey Leonov and Pavel Belyayev.) Views of ignition and launch of spacecraft; view of it ascending. Next scene shows Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov conducting the first spacewalk by an astronaut, on March 18, 1965. Final scene shows Soviet cosmonauts at an award and recognition ceremony in Moscow on March 23, 1965. Leonov and Belyayev walk side by side on a red carpet toward a reviewing stand of Russian officials. They ascend stairs of platform and salute the Russian leaders.
U.S. Air Force Project HASP (High Altitude Sampling Project) with United States Air Force U-2 aircraft deployed at Ramey air force base in Puerto Rico, under operation Crowflight. A U-2 makes steep takeoff over camera. U-2 number 66715 lands at the air base and deploys a drag chute to help braking. Ground crewman raises flexible wing of U-2 aircraft as another places an auxiliary wheel (pogo) under the wing. After these are in place, under both wings, the U-2 aircraft taxis towards a hangar. Scenery of Ramey AFB as a U-2 aircraft flies over head.
'America welcomes Lindbergh' about the welcome of Charles A. Lindbergh in United States after his successful trans Atlantic flight. View of the U.S. Capitol at night. Formations of U.S. military aircraft in flight to welcome aviator Charles Lindbergh to America. View from an airplane, of the U.S. Cruiser Memphis underway in Chesapeake Bay enroute to Potomac River and Washington,DC, as a dirigible escorts it. Views from airplane flying low over the Memphis. Two biwing airplanes can be seen secured to the deck of the Memphis.
United States ship Langley underway as a U.S. Douglas DT seaplane piloted by Lieutenant Commander V.C. Griffin is catapulted from the deck and flies away.
United States 127th Field Artillery Regiment in St. Lo, France during World War II. 155 mm Howitzers being fired at enemy position. Soldiers in a field and wooden crates of powder bags piled up. Crew of Battery B unload wooden crates and shells from a truck. Wooden crates being forwarded into emplacement. Shells being unloaded and placed onto the ground.
United States 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion near Carentan, France during World War II. American soldiers transfer mortar ammunition from a two and a half ton truck to a M-29 cargo carrier in a field. Cargo carrier loaded with ammunition moves away.
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