Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
This 1959 educational film by the Avco Corporation on behalf of the U.S. Air Force discusses the physics of re-entering payloads into Earth's atmosphere, in nose cones containing warheads or humans.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. General Bernard Schriever, commander of Air Research and Development Command, appears in the film at about the 7:53 mark. General Schriever is considered the architect of the Air Force's ballistic missile and military space program.
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This 1959 educational film by the Avco Corporation on behalf of the U.S. Air Force discusses the physics of re-entering payloads into Earth's atmosphere, in nose cones containing warheads or humans.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. General Bernard Schriever, commander of Air Research and Development Command, appears in the film at about the 7:53 mark. General Schriever is considered the architect of the Air Force's ballistic missile and military space program.
Visit our web site at www.afspacemuseum.org. We're on Twitter at @afspacemuseum.
DVD_0136UMATIC
