One of the NASA Project Mercury Astronauts during weightlessness training at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Astronaut seated inside a jet cockpit. Aircraft in flight over Edwards Air Force Base. Astronauts in the Project Mercury program included Virgil Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Donald Slayton, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra Alan Shepard.
NASA Astronauts undergo survival training near Stead Air Force base, Nevada. Board reads 'Stead Air Force Base Welcomes You'. Training instructed by Captain Robert W. Weaver. Astronauts Lt Malcolm S Carpenter; Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, USAF; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF walk out of the building and board H-21B helicopter. Two Helicopter in flight to Desert Command post. Astronauts improvise protective clothing at desert command post.
A CH-47 helicopter brings ammunition and howitzer to United States Fire Support Base (FSB) Normandy and flies off. Soldiers set a 105mm howitzer. Another CH-47 brings a howitzer and sets it down. It then flies off. A CH-54 brings howitzer in sling. A CH-54 delivers a truck on top of a hill of the base. The aerial supply operations are conducted by the U.S. Army 160th Combat Aviation Group, in support of the 101st Airborne Division. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army soldiers and howitzer are seen at Fire Support Base (FSB) Normandy. Purple smoke appears as a signal grenade fires. A U.S. Army 101st Airborne CH-54 helicopter delivers a howitzer at the base and flies away. Soldiers watch an approaching CH-47 with supplies in its sling. It delivers the supplies and flies away. (Vietnam War period).
Following his return to Patrick Air Force Base, from Grand Turk Island, at the conclusion of the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, a motorcade honoring Astronaut Scott Carpenter and his wife, Florence, proceeds from Patrick Air Force Base to Cape Canaveral in Florida. The car carrying Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter and his wife is surrounded by accompanying motorcycle policemen. Crowds line the streets to watch the motorcade. People take photographs of the Carpenters and he waves to them.
F-4C's in flight. F-4C fighters land on runway at Phan Rang Air Base. Mountains in the background. F-4C taxis at Phan Rang Air Base. Air Force personnel give signal. (Vietnam War period).
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