American astronautics (1957-1969)

Launch of the artificial Earth satellite Explorer 1 from Cape Canaveral.

1957: Military personnel enter the Rocket Center building.

Meeting in the center.

Wernher von Braun and others at the table.

Newspaper article about the launch of the Soviet artificial satellite.

A car with the inscription "Exhibition. U.S. Army" outside.

Exhibits.

Unsuccessful rocket launch: the rocket crashes at the launch pad, there is a fire.

Meeting in the Rocket Center.

Wernher von Braun at the rocket model.

Development of a new rocket.

Design bureau, employees at the drawing boards.

Various studies in the center.

Assembling the rocket.

Scientists at work in the center.

Rocket Center range.

Preparing for the rocket launch at Cape Canaveral.

Redstone rocket launch.

Observers at the range.

Missile testing at the range.

A military aircraft takes off.

Laboratory in California.

Engineers at work at their desks.

Employees at the equipment.

Rocket Center test range. 01/1958: Preparing for Explorer 1 tests.

Rocket at the launch pad.

Engineers at the equipment.

The control panel of the center.

The rocket on the launch: night shooting.

Employees at the control panel.

Explorer on the launch.

Employees negotiating.

Typist typing.

Counting down the seconds before the satellite launch.

Officers at the control panel.

Loudspeaker.

Typist typing.

Instrument readings.

Army research laboratory in the state of Georgia - a sign on the gate.

Military at the station.

Officer talking on the phone.

National Academy of Sciences of the United States: press conference for journalists.

Interview with Wernher von Braun about the development of the Explorer 1 satellite.

Introduction of the creators of the satellite.

Model of the satellite.

Photojournalists.

Wernher von Braun and others are photographed holding a model of the satellite.

Photo in the newspaper.

Cape Canaveral: Preparing for the launch of Explorer 3. Observers watch from cars, from the stands.

The rocket on the launch pad.

The rocket launches, the rocket is in the sky.

The announcer records a message.

Announcers from different countries read the message.

Observers look at the sky.

Satellites fly around the earth - a model.

Rocket launch in the USA. People are watching