https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ba59b011-126c-47fd-ad0c-31f2252b7331 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Dating to April 14 of 1959, this silent film shows various views of the test launch of the first Atlas D rocket, 3-65/926, #.1002. This launch was of an ICBM model, and took place at Launch Complex 13 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (now the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station). At 1:31, a slate indicates Atlas #1002, which was the maiden flight of the Atlas D ICBM. At 1:39 there is an explosion during launch and the rocket is aborted in a ball of flame. At 4:25, another slate for Atlas #1002. In this view, the bird is seen to hesitate during liftoff and is later aborted. According to a source, the cause of the failure was that the LOX fill/drain valve failed to close at liftoff, leading to booster section explosion T+26 seconds. RSO T+36 seconds. At 7:00, another view of the launch from a far distance. In 1959, there were 9 Atlas rocket launches. This included three Atlas B launches, two Atlas LV-3B, and four Atlas D launches. Of the four Atlas D launches, three were failures. The SM-65D Atlas, or Atlas D, was the first operational version of the U.S. Atlas missile. Atlas D was first used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to deliver a nuclear weapon payload on a suborbital trajectory. It was later developed as a launch vehicle to carry a payload to low Earth orbit on its own, and later to geosynchronous orbit, to the Moon, Venus, or Mars with the Agena or Centaur upper stage. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdACavrpclA Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:26:40 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ba59b011-126c-47fd-ad0c-31f2252b7331 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.