Nike Zeus Fired From Kwajalein, Successfully Intercepts Target, Kwajalein Island Part 1

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Release No. 257-62 FINE GRAIN TO; Footage: 400 13 December 1962 NIKE ZESS FIRED FROM KWAJALEIN SUCCESSFULLY INTERCEPTS TARGET (Official Army footage released by Dept. of Defense) The U. 8. Army's Nike Zeus anti-sissie missile system successfully intercepted another re-entry target vehicle launched by an intercontin- ental ballistic missile in another of continuing development tests on 10 December 1962. The Nike Zeus missile was fired and controlled from the Army test installation at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kvajalein Island in the Southwest Pacific. The target vehicle was boosted to ICEM velocity on a 5,000 mile trajectory from Vasdenberg Air Force Base, California, using an Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile booster fired as a training exercise by a crew of the Strategic Air Command. Sequences show: (a) Establishing shot of pad area at sunset. (b) Kissile being erected for check. (c) Liftoff and tracking of missile. NOTE TO EDITORS: 400' 35mm B/W unprocessed film handed out to NBC-TV, Washington, for servicing both TV and thestrical pool members. Original footage to be forwarded to Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York, within 72 hours. NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dup e negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered` to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. E10575

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases