100 Ton Missile Launched AKA Atlas Guided… 1958

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Full title reads: "Florida - 100 Ton Missile Launched".

Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States of America (USA).

GV Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile takes off.

LV Spectators on the shore watching the launching.

LV Atlas ICBM soaring upwards.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
49228
Sort Number:
58/006
Time in/Out:
01:02:19:00 / 01:03:10:00
Canister:
58/6
Film ID:
1517.03
Issue Date:
20/01/1958

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