A space capsule is recovered over the Pacific Ocean. Discoverer XVII Satellite is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The space capsule is released over the Pacific Ocean. It is snatched and recovered from the sky by a United States Air Force C-119 Flying Boxcar. The C-119 Flying Boxcar lands and the airmen unload the space capsule.
King Mohammed V of Morocco visit to the United States. King disembarks from the President's plane. Chief Executive and high government officials greet and receive the King. Troops give a gun salute. Troops hold flags. His 3 days United States visit is to confer with Secretary of State, Dallas on the Algerian questions and retention of American bases in Morocco. He gets into the car and leaves for the White House.
A chimpanzee orbits the earth twice. NASA technicians and scientists with Enos, a 5 and a half year old chimpanzee, in Cape Canaveral. They place the chimpanzee in a transfer van. Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft on launch pad. The launch of the missile. The missile goes into the space. A capsule orbits the earth 2 times. The capsule lands in the ocean. A rescue team recovers the capsule. They take the chimpanzee to an ambulance. A crane holds the capsule. At the Kenley Air Force Base hospital doctors examine the chimpanzee.
Welcome of the astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Junior after his space victory in the United States. The Redstone missile on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral. NASA astronaut Alan Shepard disembarks from a transfer van and boards a gantry elevator. The crew help Shepard to board the Mercury capsule atop the Redstone missile. View as the missile is launched. The missile separates and the astronaut feels weightlessness in space. He contacts the ground base via communications systems and speaks to mission control. The capsule is released at sea. Helicopters take off from Essex class aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain CV-39 to pick up the astronaut and the capsule. A helicopter rescues astronaut Shepard and the Mercury capsule. Astronaut Shepard climbs into the helicopter. The cheering crew welcomes astronaut Shepard on the carrier U.S. Navy ship USS Lake Champlain (CV-39) after his successful trip. Following a medical checkup, Shepard and his family is received by the President of the United States John F Kennedy at the White House. Shepard addresses the dignitaries present on the White House grounds, and the assembled clap when he finishes speaking. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy can be seen saying and then repeating to the President, "Pin the medal on him" (perhaps the President had forgotten but was reminded by Mrs. Kennedy). President Kennedy then pins the NASA Distinguished Service Medal on the jacket of astronaut Shepard. Civilians greet astronaut Shepard as he passes in a parade to the Pennsylvania Avenue.
Rocket sled test of aircraft ejection seat, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Engineers put a helmet and oxygen mask over a dummy's head. Rocket sled accelerates and ejection seat actuates. Seat seen flying through the air and finally hitting the ground. Braking head on the sled creates wave of water as it slows. Ejection seat and damaged head of the dummy on the ground. A pilot sits in cockpit of an airplane.
Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon of the United Kingdom (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) arrives at the Canadian National War Memorial (Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5A4, Canada) in a Cadillac automobile with a clear plastic roof. She walks along a line of Canadian war veterans and converses with some of them. Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer holds back crowd of enthusiastic spectators. The Queen Mother places a wreath at the base of the war memorial, which is already adorned with countless wreaths placed there on Canada's Remembrance Day. Memorial is engraved: "1914-1918." The Queen Mother wears three pearl necklaces. Canadian spectators pack the sidewalks, as the Queen Mother rides along the streets of Ottawa. Views, from a height, of the ceremony at the National War Memorial. The Queen Mother stands before assembled officials. A military band is in formation. Large numbers of spectators are assembled to watch. The Queen Mother's wreath is shown with its card reading: “From Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother."
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