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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NEW MEXICO - 1962 - Personnel unload a red balloon envelope from a truck, laying it on the ground at night.
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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 - Two men secure mannequins wearing astronaut suits seated on a platform. Other personnel secure the base of the high-altitude balloon.
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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 - Technicians secure the balloons base as it inflates. The high-altitude balloon expands at Borrego Valley Airport.
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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 - Technicians unroll balloon envelope across the ground before a launch. The truck backs away as technicians begin inflating the balloon.
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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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1944 - US Army Air Force paratroopers gather their gear and board their plane.
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1944 - A US Army Air Force general watches planes taxi and takeoff from an airbase.
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1964 - A USAF KC-135 designated for a NASA mission taxis on an air force runway.
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1964 - Technicians remove auxiliary power carts from under the wings of a KC-135 USAF plane, assigned to a NASA project.
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1961 - Senator Goldwater examines a USAF T-39A plane with air force officers.
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1963 - Senator Goldwater boards the cockpit of an F-105F and receives instruction from an airman.
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1963 - Senator Goldwater disembarks from the cockpit of an F-105F.
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1963 - A USAF F-105F plane takes off and lands.
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1961 - Senator Goldwater disembarks from a C-131 at a Strategic Air Command base, where he and his party are met by General Power.
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1961 - Senator Goldwater talks with General Thomas Power.
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1961 - Senator Goldwater introduces a USAF officer at a meeting.
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1930s - Panorama of air force hangars under construction.
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1950s - USAF P-51 gun cameras capture the strafing and bombing of enemy territory in Korea.
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1950s - USAF P-51 gun cameras capture the strafing of enemy territory in Korea.
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1950s - USAF P-51 and F-51 Mustangs taxi and take off from an airfield once signal flags have been waved.
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1950s - USAF airmen are briefed, then go out to the runway to board F-51 and P-51 Mustangs.
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1950s - A USAF P-51 is refueled and airmen install rockets on the wings.
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1950s - USAF F-51 and P-51 planes are signaled for landing at an airfield in Korea, and crewmen inspect bullet holes in the fuselage as pilots walk away.
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1973 - Army tanks are driven onto a USAF plane for the Israeli Airlift Operation.
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1973 - Shipment slips for US Army tanks are shown before they are driven off a USAF plane at Lod Airport.
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1973 - A missile is loaded onto a USAF plane at Lod Airport.
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1973 - A rocket is loaded onto a USAF plane at Lod Airport.
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1973 - A USAF command crew operates out of a communications center in the Lod Airport.