Establishing A Rocket Research Range

A 1960s documentary on the intensive use of sounding rockets by U.S. scientists. Containing footage of many sounding rocket launches, a diagrammatic explanation of how sounding rockets fill the gap between balloons and satellites, 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 centre, closed-circuit observation equipment, recording of radar data, an example of how the facilities are used to launch a grenade experiment, starting with T-2 days [rocket moved from storage area to launcher, grenades loaded into nosecone, mating with second stage, meteorological balloon, final equipment checks on the sound ranging recorders, rocket controls are switched to internal power, launch, recordings of sound waves].