View of United States Capitol building illuminated, at night. A meeting of House of Representatives. The meeting of Congress is addressed by several people. Patients in a hospital. U.S. Army soldiers marching on a military base. A U.S. politician speaking to a reporter. Children in a elementary school classroom listen and participate in class as teacher stands in front of blackboard.. A farmer operates a tractor on a farm field. Men and women, mostly office workers, walk on a busy sidewalk in a U.S. city (possibly New York) wearing typical 1980s fashions. A "Beefsteak Charlies" restaurant sign is seen in the background.
Groups of student pilots are briefed by instructors at a French Air Force training base in Marrakesh, Morocco. Wearing seat-pack parachutes, student pilots climb into the cockpits of North American T-6 aircraft, bearing French markings, as ground crews hook up auxiliary power units and turn over the aircraft engines. The T-6s taxi out to the active runway. The T-6s are seen taxiing back to their respective parking places on the airfield.
A V-2 rocket erected on a platform at a launch station in United States. Press ready to record the proceedings from a distance. U.S. military officers stand around rocket and discuss. A soldier is lifted up near the rocket. He ties guide wires to the rocket. Soldiers sit at control panels in the mission control area. The rocket is fired and leaves the launch pad area. Fire and smoke emitted from base of rocket.
A Jupiter missile erected on a stand in Huntsville, Alabama. Static firing of Jupiter Missile at night. Flames appear at the base of the missile.
German Rocket pioneer Johannes Winkler and his liquid fueled HW2 rocket. Diagrammatic drawing of the HW2 liquid fueled rocket, that Winkler designed based on his prior experience with the HW1c. He considered liquid fuel the key to achieving stratopheric heights. Dr. Winkler in his laboratory with rocket models. He is seen outdoors, setting the HW2 on a launch stand. Views of the HW2 ready for launching. View of data recording devices built by Dr. Winkler. Cold fumes seen from liquid oxygen. View inside laboratory of HW2 with its data instrumentation. Original Shear diagrams for the HW1c and HW2 rockets. The HW2 in its casing and a cutaway drawing of it. View of quick opening valve for liquid methane and liquid oxygen.
Designs by various international scientists and inventors who have contributed to solving the problems of rocket motor development, based on the German preparatory work. Their combustion chamber designs owe much to the German pioneers in the field. Shown are design sketches by Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Ziolkowsky) in 1914; French inventor Henri Melot, in 1920; German Friedrich Zander, in 1931; Bull, 1932; The American Rocket Society, with several designs from 1932; and The Cleveland Rocket Society. Views of rocket combustion research activity by Ernst Loebell of the Cleveland Rocket Society in 1933. He is seen outdoors in the snow with his apparatus. View of Loebell's test firing stand, and a picture of an actual test firing, outdoors. Ernst Loebell with model and rocket motor from his spaceship projects of 1934 and at the International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life held in Paris, 1937. Cutaway views of the spaceship. The rocket motor wrapped in cooling coils. Rocket motor design by John Shesta of the American Rocket Society, from 1934. Design by Rene Armengaud of France, in 1934 and Deich in 1935.
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