Miscellaneous Late 50s Launch Footage

[Winston]

XSM-73 Goose decoy drone starts at 28:27.

SM-64 Navaho starting at 33:38. Launch closeup at 58:36. SM-62 Snark launch at 1:05:45 and many more thereafter. Dusk launch at 1:10:00, 1:11:23, and 1:12:44. Some from close up and very dramatic angles like at 1:13:55, 1:15:25, etc.

Thor(?) launch at 1:18:00.

Redstone launch at 1:28:45.

Bomarc erection and launch at 1:30:50.

What looks like it may be very poor footage of Explorer 1 launch for which much better footage is available elsewhere.

Jupiter launch at 1:40:45.



XSM-73 Goose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSM-73_Goose
https://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/sm-73.html
Fairchild XSM-73 Bull Goose

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/V...y/Article/195736/fairchild-xsm-73-bull-goose/

SM-64 Navaho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-64_Navaho
https://afspacemuseum.org/artifacts/navaho-g-38-booster-engine/
https://afspacemuseum.org/artifacts/navaho/
SM-62 Snark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-62_Snark
PGM-17 Thor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-17_Thor
PGM-11 Redstone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-11_Redstone
CIM-10 Bomarc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIM-10_Bomarc
PGM-19 Jupiter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter
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From start, Lockheed X-17 launches and prep used for nuclear warhead reentry vehicle heat shield development.

Thor launch at 16:45 and 18:45 with nice under-pad engine footage in latter.

Jupiter launch at 20:00, pre-launch shown afterwords.

Atlas 17D prep and launch starting 32:28. Static firing at 43:48, launch at 44:45.

Starting at 51:26, fascinating look at all of the guts of the Pioneer P-3 probe [see link below - a very ambitious effort] and it's pre-cleanroom-era assembly process, a probe intended to be a lunar orbiter carried by the first maiden Atlas Able flight. Payload fairing broke up at T+45 seconds due to improper venting of internal pressure leading to loss of the mission. Prep of Atlas Able and Pioneer P-3 attachment shown, but no launch.

1:05:40 starts a series of Thor lanuches. 1:07:39 shows somewhat difficult removal of ablative heat shield protective covering at nose of Thor.

1:26:23 starts a series of Bomarc launches.

Snark prep at 1:32:38 followed by great launch footage at 1:35:45.



Lockheed X-17

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_X-17
The X-17 Story (1958) US Air Force



Pioneer P-3 Lunar Probe info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_P-3
NASA’s Forgotten Lunar Program

https://www.drewexmachina.com/2015/09/27/nasas-forgotten-lunar-program/
This is a great space blog, BTW:

https://www.drewexmachina.com/blog/
The Pioneer lunar orbiters: a forgotten failure

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1741/1