Thor-Agena orbital launch vehicle being prepared for launch from Vandenberg AFB, California. Entrance of Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in Vandenberg AFB. Truck coming out of the building. Workmen mate Agena vehicle to Thor missile. Thor-Agena being raised to launch position on pad. Interiors of control and data compilation center. Various tracking centers, dish-shaped tracking antenna at Vandenberg AFB, radome at Kodiak in Alaska, TLM-18 antenna at Kaena Point in Hawaii, and tracking vessel at sea.
Mounted artillerymen execute various maneuvers with teams of horses pulling caissons and artillery pieces on a field at Fort Crook, Nebraska. They raise considerable clouds of dust during the maneuvers. Large units of cavalry practice formations and charge across the field brandishing sabers.
Sled tests conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, California. North American test Pilot Al White dons X-15 pressure and space suit. Wind blast tests being conducted on rocket sled with the help of a dummy. Rocket sled run with dummy wearing an X-15 space suit testing the ejection escape system. Dummy inside X-15 nose section during another test. Pilot jumps with a parachute in case of an emergency. Fabrication and assembling of X-15 at North American Aviation Company. Technicians operate control panel. Engineers check the aircraft parts at the center. Pilot Scott Crossfield undergoes g-force training seated inside whirling centrifuge. (Early in NASA space program)
A trip to see giant Sequoia Trees or "Sequoia Washingtonia" Giant Forest trees in California's Sequoia National Park. A motorcade of tourists leaves a city hotel for a trip. Open top convertible cars drive through mountainous countryside on dirt roads in California. In the old Gold Rush town of Mariposa the group stops and enters the Mariposa County Courthouse, a mortise-and-tenon Greek Revival courthouse and California's oldest court of law. Sign over entrance reads 'Erected 1854'. A car or vehicle tunnel through a giant Sequoia Tree.
Test flight of an F-101A aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The aircraft is seen cruising normally, at high altitude, with contrails behind it. The aircraft is deliberately stalled by the pilot. It enters a flat spin. After several turns in the flat spin, the test pilot deploys a parabrake, which is seen at the tail of the aircraft. The aircraft continues descending, not fully stabilized by the parabrake. The pilot bails out. His open chute can be seen.
Experimental Martin XB-51 aircraft lands and makes long ground roll on runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California
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