Soviet nuclear missile launching from its shaft during military exercises during the Cold War. Following the Second World War and the onset of the Cold War, both the USA and the USSR developed a range of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to deliver their nuclear weapons. These missiles, mounted on rockets, were launched from silos like the one shown here. The most powerful had a range of tens of thousands of kilometres, taking the missiles on a partial orbital trajectory into space and then back into the Earth's atmosphere to strike targets on the other side of the world.

1960s: Launch pad. Rocket launches into air.

01:07:42 ? 01:09:00 Space. Rocket launch. Rocket blast off. Moon in space.

ABOVE VIEW OF HUGE ROCKET BEING ROLLED OUT TO PAD. ROCKET ON LAUNCH PAD. HUGE ROCKET BEING LAUNCHED INTO SPACE.

US Navy launches high altitude rocket for atmospheric research with photographs of earth from rocket

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

/n00:00:00:00 /n[Raw footage of the Atlas Rocket launch.]---LS Truck backs into launch pad with rocket on trailer/ MS Engine of rocket moving into position/ LS entire rocket horizontal/ CU Technic ...

Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. <br/> <br/>Woomera, Australia <br/> <br/>LS The Eldo rocket lifting off from Woomera, camera tilts with rocket. VS Press gathering around the space administrator for interview about the launch and flight. VS Installations around Woomera, underground test bays, aerials and launching gantry. <br/> <br/>Note: Date on original record: 04/06/1966.

A film about missile launches in the United States. Personnel insert a Nike, a robing sounding rocket, into a launch tube. The launch tube is raised. The rocket being launched. The Nike Cajun, a two-stage sounding rocket, being prepared for a launch. The rocket being mated to a gin pole type launcher. The launch pad being erected. The rocket being placed on the launch pad. A personnel works on the control equipment. The rocket being launched. Smoke contrails come out. The tracking of the rocket. Location: United States USA. Date: 1963.

b&w - commercial for rocket launch pad - rocket blast off - boy launches toy rocket - Count Down

POS. REV. DUPE 250 FT. SIL VARIOUS SHOTS LAUNCH AREA. VARIOUS SHOTS NASA CREW WORKING ON ROCKET. VARIOUS SHOTS TRUCK WITH ROCKET GOES TO AIRPORT. ROCKET IS LOADED ONTO TRANSPORT PLANE. VARIOUS SHOTS CREW WORKING ON ROCKET. VARIOUS SHOTS COUNTDOWN. ROCKET IS LAUNCHED. CI: SPACE - ROCKETS, "SCOUT"ROCKET. SPACE: LAUNCHINGS ROCKET.

MLS of government base, snow. MLS of rocket launch site, no rocket visible. MLS of rocket being launched. FOLLOW SHOT of rocket and trail. GROUND TO AIR SHOT of vapour trail.

A montage of rockets launching through the air.

A TITAN 3 ROCKET WAS LAUNCHED TODAY WITH THE MARS OBSERVER ON BOARD. NASA.

Rockets Hit Height of 76 Miles

Missile Launch, Rocket Launch, Mission Control VO

Rocket Launching to the Space Country United States

UP ANGLE AS ROCKET OR SPACE SHUTTLE TRAVELS TOWARDS SPACE. BLUE SKY AND CLOUDS. FLAMES AND SMOKE LEFT AS EXHAUST. SATURN V ROCKET. SPACESHIPS. NASA. FIRE OR FLAMES TRAIL BEHIND.

Produced by Cinefonics for NASA, “Establishing a Rocket Research Range” is a 1960s color documentary on the extensive use of sounding rockets by U.S. scientists. The film begins with footage of many sounding rocket launches before delving into the necessary components for a rocket research range and a successful launch. The film includes an explanation of the conditions required for a testing site, recovery of experiments, various areas within a testing site, testing of rocket timers, telemetry and tracking equipment, a sounding rocket launchpad, control center, closed-circuit observation equipment, recording of radar data. Additionally, the film features an example of how the facilities are used to launch a grenade experiment starting at T-2 days and ending at the time of launch. Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other Federal agencies. <p><p>Film opens, NASA logo (0:06). Opening credits play over footage of construction site along coast (0:11). Narration begins, montage of sounding rocket launches and reasons why US launches so many sounding rockets: Low cost, carry relatively large payload, ease and low cost of payload recover, check out experiments that may occur later (0:26). Chart of atmosphere cross-section showing how sounding rocket fills research gap between balloons and satellites (1:32). Entrance sign for Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia (1:48). Segment begins examining different facilities that guide establishment of new rocket research range (1:53). Illustration depicting size and scope of range, how it should be designed and optimized depending on location, geography, local population (2:21). Recovery of experiments and establishing launch site: Jeep traverses desert landscape, 1961 Chevrolet Brookwood Wagon drives through remote forested landscape to launch site (2:44). Requirements of launch facility (storage, assembly, communications, control, timing); Footage cuts between illustration explaining requirements of launch facility and live footage of each building: Rocket storage area (3:27). Payload storage area: Men use electrical check-out equipment to check grenade, repairs as needed (4:35). Telemetry equipment and data recording centers: Man stands in front of large apparatus with various readers, nobs, trackers; Radar tracking equipment i.e. GMD-1, SCR-584 radar; Ground support items i.e. electrical cables, meteorological balloons (5:37). Launch pads: Components include launch pad, floodlights, loudspeakers, telephone, 16mm cameras set up to observe launch (7:11). Close-up of employee adjusting launcher made from simple rail type that is easily adjustable depending on need of rocket (7:50). The control center/ “blockhouse:” Windows or close-circuit television equipment for observing launch pad, radar control switch panel, radar data photo recorded on what appears to be magnetic conversion kit (similar to PR-23 recorder) (8:09). Case study of payload launch (grenade experiment), two men at payload storage area conduct checks on equipment (10:00). T-12 hours rocket moved from storage on proper dolly, flat and smooth concrete roadways (10:22). Special forklift positions rocket onto launch rail (10:46). In remote area, man loads grenades into nose of rocket (10:58). T-4 hours payload minus grenades carefully loaded onto rocket booster (11:16). Wind observations using meteorological balloon, inside data recording center man determines desired launch settings on apparatus (11:31). Two men assist in adding nose cone with grenades to rocket (11:56). Screen with count-down timer (12:10). Range safety info collected by aircraft (small biplane) or tracking radar (12:15). In instrumentation area employees do final equipment checks on sound ranging recorders; Sound ranging microphones installed under covers in forest to collect data (12:35). Final adjustments made to launcher after it is angled up towards sky (13:33). Instrumentation turned on to internal power in rocket, all recording instruments prepared for launch (transponders, recorders for tracking and telemetry, sound ranging recorders) (14:15). Rocket dramatically launches into sky (14:49). Close-up strip recording sound waves at each time of explosion of payload (15:17). Closing credits (16:09).<p><p>Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies. We'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below.<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

1960s: Launch pad. People prepare for rocket launch. Vehicles.

FLORIDA (Cape Canaveral) (MOS),Rocket launch