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Florida - Atlas ICBM launched at Cape Canaveral, tape recorder running, carried payload of research instruments 9000 miles to Indian Ocean, "longest surface-to-surface rocket ever achieved."
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★★★★ · Cool footage · Tyler · 2013-10-29
They don't make news-reels like this anymore. Good footage of your typical NASA / Aerospace engineers at controls / control room. Good footage of the rocket fire and liftoff.
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