National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) tests flight mission STS-3 of Space Shuttle Columbia in the United States. View of space shuttle Columbia. Heat shield at launch. The heat shield functions by lifting hot shock layer gases away from the heat shield's outer wall through blowing. Smoke and fire around the space shuttle Columbia.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) tests flight mission STS-3 of Space Shuttle Columbia in the United States. Tail Service Mast (TSM), LH2 umbilical release at launch. Orbiter and Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) during the launch. Orbiter and SRB lift off. A fiery flare is emitted as the Space Shuttle Columbia takes off.
A film "Plow that broke the plains" depicts the Great Plains in the United States. Animated map of the Great Plains. Grasslands seen. A man on a horse climbs up the rocky land. Cattle graze grass on the grasslands. Wide sweeping view of American Great Plains. A farmer or rancher man watches them. Farmers enter into the plain land area with their belongings on horse carts. A plow is used and it breaks the plain land. A man takes soil in his hands and throws it back. A man with farm machinery.
From the story of a plow that breaks plains in the Great Plains, United States. Farm machinery and a useless farm. Wrecked farm equipment. A boundary of barbed wires on farms. A wind mill, damaged electricity lines and a homesteader. Rugged terrain and useless farms. A dust storm renders a farm useless.
A film "The Nuclear Ship Savannah" depicts testing trials in the United States. Sea trials of the nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ship, NS Savannah. She cruises in calm waters from her testing base at Yorktown, Virginia. Officers seen in operating positions. Helmsman steers her through various turning maneuvers. Engineers place challenging demands on her propulsion system from full speed ahead to full speed astern. Narrator calls attention to lack of smoke stack on this ship. atomic symbol painted on ship's side. Animated illustration of a nuclear reactor. View of turbine deck aboard the ship. View of the nuclear reactor control room. Numerous views of the Savannah cruising in calm waters. She is seen cruising the Delaware River near the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Model of the USS Savannah, first to cross the ocean using steam power (although she has sails). Animation showing departure of the Savannah from that city in 1819 and depicting boilers, retractable paddle wheels,and swiveling smoke stacks.
A U.S. Navy training film "Submarine Escape" depicts rescue precautions in emergency for men if a submarine sinks. A sunken submarine in the United States. Operation officers check an operation board that the reporting time of the submarine has passed out. A man makes a radio call to the submarine but it does not answer. A squadron officer leaves the office of communication and contacts with an officer of Ships and Shore Station for aid. Two aircraft and an airship in flight to find the submarine and to rescue its crewmen. A ship at sea. Two methods of rescue to be followed in emergency: individual (S.E.A.) and collective (Rescue Chamber). Crewmen in the submarine as it goes down. They smoke. A man on a phone receives no answer. A man checks condition. Two men stand near a compartment. Floating debris in the sea. Men in a forward compartment to talk over the problems that the ship is encountering. Important steps to be followed in an emergency written on a board. Men follow the steps. A man gives a pack of absorbent powder. A man spreads a mattress cover on a lower bunk. He puts on rubber gloves. He pours the powder and spreads it in thin layer. Instructions are read by a man. Emergency drinking water, fruit juices and oxygen for safety. The man waits. Men rest. The men prepare for escape collectively. They wear the rescue gear. Men prepare for escape individually. A man wearing a rescue gear signals by gesturing. The men work with rescue gear and equipment.
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