NASA X-15 parked on Rogers Dry Lake runway after landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, immediately after an unsuccessful mission due to problems involving liquid oxygen tank pressure fluctuations. View from the rear, showing the twin vertical mounted rocket engines. Vehicles surround the aircraft and technicians work around it. Closeup of main gear skids and underbelly. View of auxiliary wheels to be attacked to main gear. (This is the number two X-15, tail number 56-6671.)
Wounded United States soldier on a stretcher is brought to the emergency room (in a Quonset hut) for treatment. Views as the stretcher is begin run across a field toward the treatment station. Doctors give Intravenous injection and oxygen to the patient. Nurse checks soldier's blood pressure. Another doctor bandages patient's arm. Nurse checks flow of the drip bottle. Doctor and nurse converse with each other while treating patient. (Vietnam War period).
NASA Project Mercury candidate Captain James W. Wood, USAF, undergoes psychological and stress test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Doctors measure candidate's pulse and blood pressure before and after a "Flack" test. The subject must blow continuously into a tube to maintain a column of mercury at a specified level for as long as possible.
NASA technicians work on the damaged Apollo 1 spacecraft at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in United States. Men inspect the space craft. They remove parts from the module. Man looks at some documents and parts in plastic bags.
Apollo 204 review board at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in United States. Officials and engineers gather around the burned bottom portion of the Apollo 1 command module. They point at damaged parts inside the bottom of the module and discuss amongst themselves.
A Nazi German Messerschmitt Bf 110, (Me 110) in a hangar of the Vultee aircraft manufacturing company in Downey, California, early in World War 2, and before America's entrance into the war. The aircraft (possibly captured by the British?) is seen going through inspection by workers at the Vultee plant. There are some bullet holes and signs of damage in the captured plane. Men in the cockpit of the plane inspect it. Other men watch.
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