This educational film explains ‘DASA Project 9.5’, a high-altitude sounding rockets development project. U. S. Air Force experts join forces in designing, fabricating, and testing various rocket configurations and payloads under the auspices of DASA, the Defense Atomic Support Agency (DASA), a DoD activity for nuclear weapons parallel to the Department of Energy. The film was produced by Pictorial at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico by the U. S. Army Test and Evaluation Command.

A large flamethrower (00:06). Rockets launching (00:16). “DASA Project 9.5” title banner (00:29). “Development of a Family of High Altitude Sounding Rocket Systems” title banner (00:33). White Sands Missile Range in the State of New Mexico (00:42). The Electronic Warfare laboratory on the range (01:00). Personnel of the DASA Project 9.5 in a meeting (01:02). The project’s payload configurations developed by the personnel (01:26). A rocket nose cone displayed (02:07). Rocket engineers review and evaluate existing rocket systems (02:16). An upper air sounding rocket, also known as rocketsonde, research rocket, or suborbital rocket (02:37). A ‘Nike Ajax’ and an ‘Honest John’ rocket booster (02:43). The Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot Headquarters (02:50). The fabrication of interstage adapters and launcher rails at Lexington-Blue Grass (02:58). The Space Data Corp. (03:16) responsible for designing adapters and associated hardware and analyzing all flight data from Project 9.5 (03:20). Wind vanes collecting data (03:46). A radar tracked pilot balloon (03:50). Radio Sonde systems (03:54). A meteorological rocket (03:57). The ‘Eglin’ Air Force Base (04:02). Two differently sized launchers are tested at Eglin (04:11). A small launcher is tested at White Sands Missile Range (04:33). A rocket assembly storage facility (04:49). The design and development of electronic firing systems at Holloman Air Force Base (04:58). Views of the personnel of the DASA Project 9.5 and the decided configurations (05:17). Rockets are assembled in preparation for test firing (05:29). Air Force personnel at the Holloman Base prepare a single-stage 14-foot Javelin rocket for firing (06:05) and then fired (06:20). A single-stage 18-foot High Dac sounding rocket (06:25). It’s fired (06:33). The two-stage ‘Nike Apache’ sounding rocket also known as Argo B-13, using a Nike M5 booster (06:55). It’s fired (07:11). A two-stage Nike Javelin sounding rocket (07:16). It’s fired (07:28). The Nike-Hydac two-stage rocket (07:41). It’s fired (07:45). A Nike Nike two-stage rocket configuration (08:03). A Nike-Nike payload in a floatable container is being recovered from the Guld of Mexico (08:22). An Honest John Nike two-stage configuration is launched (08:40). A three-stage Honest John Nike Javelin rocket (08:54). It’s fired (09:00). A three-stage Honest John Nike High Dac rocket is fired (09:15). A four-stage Honest John Nike Nike High Dac configuration (09:33). It’s fired (10:25). A ‘Blue Goose’ rocket consisting of a ‘Little Joe’ or ‘XM33’ solid-fueled booster rocket and four solid-fueled strap-on motors known as recruit rockets (10:50). It’s fired (11:07). A rocket flying (11:30). Rockets are fired (11:43). Views of the three launchers used in Project 9.5 (11:50). Wind vanes (11:57). Meteorological data processing (12:02). Electronic firing systems (12:06). Procurement of equipment and storage of 9.5 essentials (12:13). Personnel working on Project 9.5 (12:24). A rocket firing (12:35). Credentials (12:38). “The End” written on screen (12:47).

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