A collision between Royal Australian Navy HMAS Melbourne (R-21) and destroyer USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754) while taking part in SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) exercise in the South China Sea. HMAS Melbourne (R-21) rests on water. Two utility boats pull away from HMAS Melbourne. Forward section of HMAS Melbourne showing damage to the bow caused in the collision. Crewmen on the weather deck of a ship look towards HMAS Melbourne. A crewman up in a crane on a board ship. A crane hook swings in the air over a utility boat in skids on deck and is attached to slings. Five crewmen in the boat. Part of carrier superstructure seen in the background. A man signals on the deck of the ship. The boat is lowered in water. Australian utility boat approaches with survivors from USS Frank E. Evans aboard. Personnel on the sponsor deck of the ship watch. The boat approaches the ship's gangway. Men disembark from the boat onto the gangway and move up. The utility boat approaches the gangway of the ship. Men walk up the gangway. A U.S. Navy boat underway.
U.S. President Richard Nixon in Midway Island. U.S. Navy personnel standing in a roped off area, to receive U.S. President Nixon. A number of people gathered in front of a building in roped off areas. The Navy personnel with families standing in the area. Boy scouts standing in a group. One of them taking pictures with a camera. View of the Navy personnel. The Navy personnel with their families standing in a roped off area on the side of a path. U.S. flag in view beside the crowd. A few Navy personnel taking pictures with camera. A U.S. Navy photographer beside a camera on a stand. Women wearing blue uniforms among the crowd. Various views of the Navy personnel gathered in the area. A few of them holding cameras. The officers in charge of the Honor Guards coming to attention. Several sailors stand in formation in the background. The Color Guard in view. The officers in charge of the Honor Guards at attention. The Color Guard and the sailors in view. A U.S. Navy Captain watching the proceedings. U.S. President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State William P Rogers with officials and, Naval and Army personnel arrive. President Nixon standing on a small platform. Two officers stand and salute beside the platform. The Presidential aircraft Air Force I parked in the background. A few officers beside the aircraft. Officers in charge of the Honord Guards at attention. President Nixon with the officers walking past the officers and the sailors.
The recovery of the Apollo 11 Columbia Command Module and astronauts welcomed after in Houston Texas. Radar equipment on USS Hornet (CVS-12). A helicopter in flight. The Columbia Command Module of Apollo 11 seen as a white light streaking through the sky as it reenters earth's atmosphere. The Columbia module seen floating in the ocean near the USS Hornet. President of the United States Richard Nixon on the USS Hornet. A helicopter recovers the astronatus from the Columbia Command module in the Pacific Ocean. A man clicks pictures. The astronauts being pulled up to the helicopter from the command module floating in the ocean. The helicopter lands on the carrier. The ramp being pushed to the helicopter. Richard Nixon waving at the astronauts. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins disembark in special air-tight suits to applause of the crew, and then immediately enter a Mobile Quarantine Van. The crew of Apollo 11 in quarantine after returning to Earth. People welcome the astronatus in the quarantine van after it has arrived in Houston Texas. The astronauts talk over a red telephone to family and friends gathered in Houston. They wave from the quarantine van where they must remain for 3 weeks. Views of the astronauts on the moon are shown periodically. A scientist opens a collected rock and dust sample from moon using special equipment in a closed chamber. Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package placed on the surface. Laser ranging retro reflector placed on the surface of moon. The lunar module (LM) Eagle on moon surface.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird visits General Printing Office exhibit at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. Melvin R. Laird visits GPO display in the concourse of the Pentagon and is greeted by members of the Printing Office and U.S. Marine Corp Commandant General Leonard F. Chapman and U.S. Air Force Director of Information Major General William C. Garland. Secretary Laird looks at Marine combat art. A sign reads 'Government Book Store'. Secretary Laird speaks to Major General Garland.
ROK Army soldiers enter barracks with United States soldiers. Korean soldier playing checkers with white soldier. White and African American soldiers playing a table top "bowling" game. Korean hits punching bag with white soldier. ROK Army dentists with patient. ROK Army optometrist puts glasses on patient. Korean air traffic controller in tower with United States soldier. Monoplane landing at airport. ROK Army troops patrolling the DMZ near sign that reads "Light & Weapons Line. Personnel will not travel beyond this point unless they are armed or wearing flak vests--steel pots. All vehicle lights turned off at this point. "SAFETY FIRST" View of truck ambushed by North Korea in April 1968. Bullet holes seen in truck windshield. United States soldiers enter a mess hall tent. Officer points to bullet hole in wall from August 1968 attack on mess hall. View of upended dishes and table dramatizing attack on mess hall with machine gun. View of barracks destroyed by time bomb. Joint Military Armistice Commission meeting in Panmunjom, Korea. Korean smoking while meeting takes place. Damaged truck on display outside building at Joint Military Armistice Commission meeting. United States honor guard in formation outside building.
Still photos of the NASA Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. Buzz Aldrin next to the Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSE) with the lunar module Eagle in the background. Buzz Aldrin stands next to the United States flag on the moon. Spacesuit and lander on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. Front pages of major United States newspapers, such as The Miami Herald and Chicago Daily News, report the historic moon landing. Headlines include, "Ohioan Walks on Moon!" "Man Walks on the Moon" and "Americans on Moon." Teenagers looking at Apollo display at the Smithsonian. Empty mission control years after Apollo.
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