Summary: This episode of Rockets! looks at post-WW II rocketry and the creation of the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. The U.S. military developed the science and technology that would explore the outer reaches of the earth's atmosphere. This effort was redirected during the Cold War, fueled by a desperate race with the U.S.S.R. to deploy nuclear-tipped ICBMs, and later to orbit the first...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: B-52 launches quail missiles
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1960
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Summary: Cuban Missile Crisis. President Kennedy lifts naval blockade of Cuba after Soviet missiles withdrawn
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962