First in-silo launch of liquid fueled ICBM Titan VS-1 from Silo Launch Test Facility,Vandenberg. Code named 'Silver Saddle' the Titan carries a dummy second stage. Ground level surface of silo. Flames ignite from two silo ducts after initial ignition. Missile emerges from ground and climbs up in to sky. 3 May 1961. (Note: This launch was an engineering test of the range safety destruct system as well as a prototype Titan II silo, as that missile was still over a year away from its first launch. Following first stage burnout, the dummy second stage, which was filled with water, was detonated. The water formed an ice cloud that was then photographed. This experiment would later be performed on two Saturn I launches.)
Members of President Kennedy's cabinet alighting from aircraft VC-137B. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in center talking with newsmen. With him, from left to right are Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Secretary of Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall, Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges, Dr. Walter Heller, Chairman of Council on Economic Advisors and Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. View of VIPs leaving in car.
A high-lift truck moving near the rear door of VC-137C aircraft from where the casket bearing John Kennedy's body is to be taken in ambulance. VIPs arriving in car. Ambulance pulling out. Bank of microphones in foreground. VIPs leaving in cars. Newsmen at terminal. President Lyndon B. Johnson, with his wife at one side, reading his first public statement before the bank of microphones.
Experimental flight tests of Horton Wingless Airplane. Aircraft take off on runway. Sketches of designs proposed for Horton aircraft designed by William Horton, including the HW-X-26-52. Wingless Aircraft taxi for take off and other aircraft parked on airfield. Sign of 'Entrance - Orange County airport publicly owned'.
Various helicopters and aircraft at Andrews AFB, Maryland. An aerial view of the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument. An aerial view of Ft. Lesley McNair War College. Aerial views of Andrews AFB showing a H-43 Huskie helicopter in flight, a H-21 helicopter touching down and a VC-137 taxiing on the runway.
Activities involved in a LGM-30 Minuteman missile operational test launch at Vandenberg AFB, Lompoc. A crew of two men comes out of a silo. Task Force Munitions team at work on the missile components in an underground silo. View of the MIRV, Multiple (three) independently targeted reentry vehicles (warheads). The missile booster is removed, loaded on a transporter, transferred to the missile complex ,and loaded in the launch facility. Reentry system is added to the missile and start up is accomplished. Various officers of Task Force at controls. Data analysis by officers which involves flight data recording. Training of the countdown team. Final enabling of launch facility by crews prior to launch. A radar outside a facility. A Task Force commander in conference with his team.
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