MINNESOTA - 1957 - Winzen Research technicians check Major David G. Simons from the payload's window before the balloon launch.
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MINNESOTA - 1957 - Scientists assists Major David G. Simons inside the payload before a test flight. Major Simons tests the buttons inside the payload.
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MINNESOTA - 1957 - A USAF high-altitude balloon soars through the sky. The stratosphere stretches in view below the aircraft.
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MINNESOTA - 1957 - USAF personnel gather around a transparent balloon envelope being inflated for a balloon test launch at Fleming Field.
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MINNESOTA - 1957 - Men remove the cables securing a high-altitude balloon upon its launch in Fleming Field. The transparent balloon gradually rises in the sky.
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MINNESOTA - 1957 - Up camera view of a high-altitude balloon ascent and its flight at ceiling. The white parachute gradually opens.
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MINNESOTA - 1956 - A parachute slowly descends and lands on a field. Scientists rush over and recover the parachute and payload.
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MINNESOTA - 1956 - A camera on the high-altitude balloon captures the payload release. The payload separates mid-flight and drifts away.
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MINNESOTA - 1956 - A parachute lying on the ground. The transparent high-altitude balloon with payload is released and flies over fields.
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MINNESOTA - 1956 - Scientists and personnel inflate a transparent high-altitude balloon in winter. The balloon soars as personnel work on snow-covered ground.
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MINNESOTA - 1956 - The transparent high-altitude balloon flies over farmlands, rivers and fields in Minnesota. An aircraft is seen flying below the balloon.
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MINNESOTA - 1956 - Parts attached to a transparent balloon envelope prior to balloon launch. The high-altitude balloon is being inflated.
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MINNESOTA - 1956 - The transparent high-altitude balloon flies above Minnesota. A Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft flies past the balloon.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - The crane lets go of the payload containing Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger Jr. and astronomer William C. White. The high-altitude balloon carries the payload.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - Captain Joseph W. Kittinger Jr. and astronomer William C. White talking before a balloon launch. They enter the payload and bring out their cameras.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - The crane truck transports and lifts the payload containing Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger Jr. and astronomer William C. White.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - A man attaches a cowboy hat at the bottom of the payload before launching. Personnel making final preparations for the balloon launch.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - Military personnel in uniform talking before a balloon launch. A crane truck transports the payload.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - Two men are lowered from the payload. Another man wearing headphones hammers the payload door shut.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - Men adjusting and pushing balloon envelope as a high-altitude balloon is being inflated.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - Personnel holding down the balloon envelope as the high-altitude balloon is being inflated. They remove wheeled balloon dollies under the envelope.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - Scientists and personnel prepare the payload for a high-altitude balloon launch in the morning.
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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - Personnel follow the truck as a red balloon envelope is being unrolled on the ground. Scientists taking down notes as they inspect payload part.
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CALIFORNIA - 1962 - The high-altitude balloon rises at Borrego Valley Airport. A pilot walks to a Piper PA-21 Apache twin-engine light aircraft in the middle of the runway.
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CALIFORNIA - 1962 - The transparent high-altitude balloon rises at Borrego Valley Airport. A man secures a mannequin seated on a platform before launch.
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CALIFORNIA - 1962 - A Dillon dynamometer with a note taped in front. The high-altitude balloon rises as personnel fix the balloon's base attached to a truck.
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CALIFORNIA - 1962 - The high-altitude balloon expands at Borrego Valley Airport. A technician secures the base of the balloon to a truck's bumper.
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CALIFORNIA - 1962 - Men securing a truck's bumper and applying tape into a hose before a balloon launch at Borrego Valley Airport.
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CALIFORNIA - 1962 - Personnel hold onto the base of the chair as they guide the crane to a building. A mannequin wearing a spacesuit is seen sitting on the chair.
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CALIFORNIA - 1962 - Various aircraft such as a Douglas DC-3 and a Lockheed twin-engine airliner taxiing and taking off in the middle of a desert.
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CALIFORNIA - 1962 - Personnel guiding a crane to position itself beside the door of an aircraft. Men inside the aircraft hook a chair with a dummy to the crane.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, a villain holds a burning item to the wall of a metal room he is trapped in. A group of people discuss a plan.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, expedition members and tribesmen see airplanes. A villain cranks up the power of his weapon and blows the top off of a mountain.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, expedition members fight between themselves in a bamboo tent.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, a villain seals all the doors in his futuristic city. Two men use a light to open a door. They save a girl strapped to a chair.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, two men and a woman find a special weapon in the woods. Tribesmen arrive and take a scientists hostage.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, two men in a lab defeat a futuristic strongman. A scientist talks into a microphone.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, three men in a metal room are let out by a henchman. The evil villain is knocked down and the others get away.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, and evil villain holds an outsider hostage in a special machine. A woman pushes a button to open a trapdoor under the villain.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, a man tries to sabotage an evil electricity machine. Another man in futuristic clothing fights him. A giant tribesman hold him captive.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, a mad villain turns on a special machine that blinks a light on a screen. He discusses his evil plans and sends two men down a trap door to a metal room.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, two men meet the villain of a futuristic city.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, giant men grab white men on an expedition. Two men are trapped in a palm hut and fall through a trapdoor to a metal room. A futuristic villain laughs.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, two men trapped in a metal room see a light moving across the floor to a door. Outside the door is are giant tribesmen.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, a mad villain attempts to trap outsiders in a palm hut.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, citizens of a futuristic city discuss outsiders finding the city.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, a giant carries a tribesman to be experimented on with a special machine.
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AFRICA - 1935 - In this science fiction, giants carry tribesmen into a metal cage.