A Soyuz rocket on launch pad before liftoff in Soviet Union. The Russian rocket ignites and lifts off from launchpad. Rocket climbing upward as seen from the ground. A television screen showing screen with the rocket ascent underway, and a reel to reel tape recorder operating beside the television monitor. A tracking antenna tracks the Soyuz spacecraft. Animation depicts Soyuz aircraft in space. Tracking antennae at a control center. Soyuz docking with another spacecraft. Soviet cosmonauts inside spacecraft. Soviet scientists end engineers track the Soyuz at a mission control center.
Weightless Soviet cosmonauts working onboard a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in outer space. The cosmonaut opens a toolbox and brings out tools. Aerial view of an area of earth as seen from outer space. A cosmonaut floats beside another cosmonaut reading a book or manual onboard spacecraft. The floating cosmonaut puts on a communications cap or Communications Carrier Assembly, and sits down. View of Soviet scientists and engineers in a Russian mission control center on earth as they manage the mission.
A scientist at a mission control center in the Soviet Union. View of the earth’s surface from outer space. Animation of Soviet spacecraft during a undocking or separation maneuver. Tracking antennae at sunset on earth. Footage showing aerial view of earth’s surface. Russian scientists in a mission control center working on a Soyuz spacecraft mission. Soyuz spacecraft in flight. A large Soviet tracking antenna array moving.
Vietnamese men work at a quarry, An Thoi. They break stones with small hammers. A Vietnamese wearing a coolie hat, swings an iron weight and breaks up small stones. The rock quarry. Vietnamese men under a temporary covering, breaking up rocks.
Aircraft AC-47 takes off from runway at Bein Hoa Air Base. AC-47 in flight. Camouflaged AC-47 parked at air base. Crewmen aboard AC-47. Pickup trailer loaded with parachute flares arrives. Trailer is detached from truck. Crewmen place parachute flares in flare rack aboard AC-47.
Interiors of aircraft AC-47 shows crew members boarding plane. Last crewman aboard stores away ladder in tail compartment. Parachute flares in flare rack. AC-47 No 1 engine starts as seen from AC-47 door. Pilots at controls. Radio man and crewman attach lanyard wires to parachute flares.