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NASA Project Mercury MA-6, MA-7, and MA-8 missions and astronauts Glenn, Carpenter, and Schirra.

Space research programs of the National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. NASA Project Mercury personnel drive a trailer loaded with a Mercury Friendship 7 space capsule and transfer it onto missile at Launch Pad 14 of Cape Canaveral Florida. Mercury-Atlas 6 rocket with Friendship 7 capsule lifts off during launch with astronaut John Glenn aboard on February 20, 1962, making Glenn the first American to orbit the earth in space. NASA technical staff at work in Mission Control room during Project Mercury. Next scene is closeup of Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) rocket launching on May 24, 1962. A NASA official presents medal to astronaut Scott Carpenter after the flight. View of astronaut Walter Schirra beside his Sigma 7 capsule (used in Mercury MA-8 mission)

Location: Cape Canaveral Florida USA
Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073183
United States heat wave in 1937:American people swim and seek cool ways to beat the heat in the United States.

People undertaking measures to beat the heat in the United States during the 1937 heat wave. People gather in a large number near the swimming pools. Children dive in the water and swim. Fountains erected in city streets where children gather to play. People pass through the street as water being sprinkled with the help of fountains. A female secretary wearing a bathing suit sits at a desk and takes dictation from a man. Inventor Horatio Casterbilt (or Casterbuilt) shows and wears a hat with a fan motor attached to it to keep his head cool. From a August 1962 newsreel depicting events 25 years earlier.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1937, July
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063222
U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson asks a Soviet representative in the U.S. if his country is installing missiles in Cuba.

Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. United Nations building in New York. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson asks Soviet representative to the UN Valerian Zorin if his country was installing missiles in Cuba. Following Zorin's refusal to answer the abrupt question, Stevenson retorts, 'I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over'.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1962, October 25
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070175
United States monitoring Cuba and enforcing Kennedy's shipment quarantine order during the Cuban Missle Crisis

Community fallout shelters being stocked. Lorries and trucks on road carry supplies. View of Red Ball trucking line truck. Aerial, exterior view of United Nations Building in New York City. View inside United Nations building. United Nation Ambassador Stevenson asks the USSR delegate whether there are missile bases on Cuba. President Kennedy signs Quarantine order on what materials may be shipped to Cuba, to begin 10am on October 24, 1962. B-52 bombers take off, taking 24 hour missions. Interceptors and fighters take off. Views on aircraft carriers with fueling and takeoff operations on flight deck. Radar dishes and radio communications. U.S. battleship at sea. U.S. intercepts Soviet tanker and allows her to proceed. Reconnaissance aircraft over Cuba. Views of White House. SAC bombers and anti aircraft missiles on 5 to 15 minute alert to handle any critical situation. Interiors of control room inside the Headquarters of American Air Defense Command.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1962, October
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038967
United States President John F. Kennedy inspects flight line and talks to airmen at the Homestead Air Force Base in Florida.

United States President John F. Kennedy arrives at the Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, United States, during Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Motorcade of President inspects flight line of various aircraft and crews. President's car stops in front of C-119G and then F-104C, The President talks with pilot and crew and returns to the car and inspects line of RF-101s. He then hangs a streamer ribbon on a flag and congratulates Colonel Arthur A. McCardan. He addresses the airmen and crowd over a microphone.

Location: Florida United States USA
Date: 1962, December 26
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036866
Civilians cheer as John Glenn and Scott Carpenter move in a motorcade after the successful flight in the United States.

Space achievements in the United States in the year 1962. Atlas Missile is launched for the Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying NASA astronaut Glenn in Friendship 7. Smoke column rises. Photographers take photographs. Colonel John Herschel Glenn arrives after orbiting the Earth. His wife greets and receives him. Astronauts John Herschel Glenn and Malcolm Scott Carpenter move in a motorcade followed by a ticker tape parade. Civilians gather to greet them. View of the White House. Astronaut Walter Marty Schirra being successful in making 6 orbits around the Earth. Schirra and his family visit White House to meet the U.S. President John F Kennedy.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073165
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