Cold War: ICBM Atlas 10A Flight Test Report, 1958

Titles. 02:28:05 Atlas 10A being transported by convoy on highway past camera; arriving & erected into gantry, 27Sep57. 02:28:32 Telemetering data printing out; man a mainframe computer w/ tape reels, CU printer. Animation showing missile modification based on data from two failures. 02:29:22 Men working on modifications; horizontal rocket moving to flight pad & erecting. CU workers at base of rocket on launch pad. 02:29:51 Missile on gantry; gantries pulling back. 02:30:05 Missile lowered & removed LS. 02:30:22 Atlas 10A on launch pad & test firing of rocket motor. Vertical rocket near gantry. 02:31:12 02Jan58 LS testing of motors. 02:31:23 Rolling titles re flight test objectives. 02:31:44 View up as rocket removed from gantry. Tilt up rocket. 10Jan58 Successful launch of rocket, tracking rocket thru sky till burnout occurs. 02:33:08 Rocket frame between palm trees, cameras in foreground. 02:33:13 Men in blockhouse control room at consoles. MS. Launch w/ smoke obscuring; 2nd camera w/ CU of flames & rocket. 02:34:10 ECU of rocket launch; following. VERY GOOD. 02:35:08 The End. Cold War; ICBM Missiles; 1950s; 1960s; Minuteman Missile;