RM2T3J6KD–Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Skylab 3 commander, NASAAstronaut Alan Bean during news conference prior to Skylab 3 mission
RM2T3J6KW–John C. Houbolt at blackboard, showing his space rendezvous concept for lunar landings. Lunar Orbital Rendezvous (LOR) would be used in the Apollo program. Although Houbolt did not invent the idea of LOR, he was the person most responsible for pushing it at NASA.
RM2T3J6F9–Neil A. Armstrong (1958) Neil A. Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, portrait of Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong. Neil Alden Armstrong (1930 – 2012) American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon.
RMKYH6WR–American mathematician Dorothy Vaughan, 'human computer' working at NACA, later NASA
RMKYH55Y–Mary Jackson at work at NASA Langley, USA
RMKYH5E3–Mary Jackson at work at NASA Langley, USA
RMKYH5KM–Katherine Johnson, Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, African-American mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA.
RM2HE44HF–Katherine Johnson, also Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, Katherine Johnson (1918 – 2020) American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
RM2K7XGX1–Mary Jackson. Mary Jackson (1921 – 2005) American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
RM2H99J75–Mrs. Mary Haise receives an explanation of the revised flight plan of the Apollo 13 mission from astronaut Gerald P. Carr in the viewing room of the Mission Control Center (MCC), Building 30, at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). Her husband, astronaut Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot for the Apollo 13 mission, was joining fellow crew members, astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., and John L. Swigert Jr. in making correction in their spacecraft following discovery of an oxygen cell failure several hours earlier.
RM2H99J59–Astronaut Thomas K. (Ken) Mattingly II, who was scheduled as a prime crew member for the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission but was replaced in the final hours when it was discovered he had been exposed to measles, watches the liftoff phase of the mission. He is seated at a console in the Mission Control Center’s (MCC) Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR). Scientist-astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, a spacecraft communicator for the mission, looks on at right.
RMKYH54X–Mary Jackson With Model at NASA Langley
RMTCRHEC–Apollo 11 backup crew members Fred Haise (left) and Jim Lovell prepare to enter the Lunar Module for an altitude test.
RMPXJ7DB–John W. Young (1930-2018), NASA's longest-serving astronaut and the only astronaut to fly missions in the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs.
RMTCRHG2–Ann McNair and Mary Jo Smith pose with a model of a Pegasus Satellite
RMKKA822–Wernher von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun, Dr. Wernher von Braun, German, later American, aerospace engineer and space architect credited with inventing the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany and the Saturn V for the United States
RM2K7XH1X–Astronaut nurse Delores B. O'Hara, R.N., in the Aeromedical Laboratory at Cape Canaveral, Florida, takes a blood sample from Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.
RM2BWH33K–Astronaut John Glenn and the Mercury capsule Friendship 7
RM2K7XH24–Astronaut John Glenn Jr. speaks after being honored by President John F. Kennedy following Glenn's historic three-orbit flight, Mercury-Atlas 6. The ceremony was held in front of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
RM2K7XH26–Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., suited with hose to suit ventilation unit attached, during altitude chamber test. He is standing in the entrance to the test chamber with his helmet visor down.
RMTCRHF1–Margaret W. ‘Hap’ Brennecke was the first female welding engineer to work in the Materials and Processes Laboratory at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
RM2T3J6JG–Astronaut Alan Shepard, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in his pressure suit, with helmet opened, for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) flight, the first American human spaceflight.
RM2K7XH22–John H. Glenn, Jr. - NASA Project Mercury Astronaut.
RM2AGYA9F–Project Mercury Astronaut Walter Schirra in full pressure suit, astronaut Walter M. Schirra, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April 27, 1959
RM2AFNWA4–Test pilot Lawrence A. Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory
RM2T3J6K9–John Stack, John Stack, head of Compressibility Research Division, NASA, c1946
RM2T3J6KT–Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames at his desk at the NACA headquarters. Dr. Ames was a founding member of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864 – 1943) physicist, professor
RM2T3J6KF–Dr. T. Keith Glenan, NASA's first Administrator. He served as Administrator from 1958 to 1961.
RM2T3J6F8–Mary Jackson (1921 – 2005) American mathematician. Mary Jackson, Mary Jackson is one of NASA's Hidden Figures. She was the first black female engineer at NASA. Inducted into the Langley Hall of Honor, June 1, 2017.
RM2T3J6G3–Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945). Dr. Goddard has been recognized as the father of American rocketry and as one of the pioneers in the theoretical exploration of space.
RM2K7XH1B–Jerrie Cobb poses next to a Mercury spaceship capsule. And, although she never flew in space, Cobb, along with 24 other women, underwent physical tests similar to those taken by the Mercury astronauts with the belief that she might become an astronaut trainee.
RMHNKP45–Neil Armstrong in the cockpit of the Ames Bell X-14 aircraft at NASA's Ames Research Centre.
RMKTRM3P–Langley's Full Scale Tunnel during the 1934 Aircraft Engineering Research Conference
RM2K7XGRG–Astronaut Paul J. Weitz, pilot for the Skylab 2 first manned mission, is suited up for Skylab training activity in the mission simulation and training facility at the Manned Spacecraft Center
RM2K7XGX3–Astronaut William R. Pogue, pilot of the Skylab 4 mission, relaxes during spacesuit pressure and fit checks at the Kennedy Space Center
RM2K7XGRK–Astronaut Al Worden, command module pilot on the Apollo 15 lunar landing
RM2K7XGYF–Portrait of Samuel J. Scott working in the Office of Directors for Structures NASA Langley. Photograph taken May 1977. Samuel J. Scott (1938 – 2021) engineer who was among the first four black engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in 1962
RM2K7XGYH–Astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John W. Young participated in the first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini III.
RM2K7XGX6–Astronaut David R. Scott, commander, standing on the slope of Hadley Delta, uses a 70mm camera during Apollo 15 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface, July 31, 1971. He is 10.5 miles (or 17.5 kilometers) from the base of the Apennine Mountains seen in the background. Scott carries tongs in his left hand. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is in the background.
RM2K7XGX8–Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. (right), commander, and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, are suited up for a manned altitude run in the Apollo 14 Lunar Module (LM).
RM2K7XGWM–Portrait of Margaret W. “Hap’ Brennecke. Brennecke was a metallurgist and welding engineer in the Materials and Processes Laboratory at Marshall. First female welding engineer
RM2K7XGY0–Astronaut Scott Carpenter stands in front of the Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral. Carpenter was the pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission aboard Aurora 7, which launched May 24, 1962. Image credit: NASA
RM2K7XGWT–HUS-1 helicopter attempting to recover the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft. The recovery ship USS Randolph is visible in the distance.
RM2H99J5R–Apollo 15 Commander David Scott drives the lunar roving vehicle on the surface of the Moon, the first time the rover was used.
RM2H65W2X–Apollo 13 Lunar Module LM-7 Aquarius as photographed from the Command Module Odyssey after undocking from it and prior to both modules reentering the Earth's atmosphere.
RM2K7XGY2–Mission commander Alan Shepard assembles a double core tube. Astronauts Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar D. Mitchell, who took this photograph, explored the lunar surface while astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, orbited the moon.
RM2H65W2N–Apollo13 - view of the damaged Service Module after separation.
RM2K7XH1E–Philip Kenyon Chapman (1935 – 2021) first Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967). In this image from 1968, Dr. Chapman trains in the Lunar Module Simulator, Centrifuge, and the Apollo Mission Simulator
RM2K7XH1C–The Mercury 7 astronauts examine their 'couches.' Each astronaut's couch was molded to fit his body to help withstand the G-loads of the launch. Plaster casts of the astronauts were created in order to properly mold the couches. Left to right are Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Walter Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, Gus Grissom and Bob Gilruth. Gilruth was director of the Space Task Group, which planned and managed the Mercury Project.
RM2K7XGRF–ASTRONAUTS WITH DR. VON BRAUN AND DR. HOLMES This week in 1962, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Director Dr. Wernher von Braun met with five astronauts and Brainerd Holmes, NASA associate administrator for Manned Space Flight, at Marshall. From left are Elliot See, Tom Stafford, Wally Schirra, John Glenn, Holmes, von Braun and Jim Lovell. NASA officials and astronauts often traveled to Marshall to meet with von Braun.
RM2K7XH14–Gus Grissom is hoisted to safety following the sinking of Liberty Bell 7 NASA Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second United States human spaceflight, on July 21, 1961. The suborbital Project Mercury flight was launched with a Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, MRLV-8. The spacecraft, Mercury capsule #11, was nicknamed the Liberty Bell 7. It was piloted by astronaut Virgil 'Gus' Grissom.
RM2T3J6KG–Albert Scott Crossfield (1921 – 2006) American naval officer and test pilot.
RM2BWH35Y–Astronaut Al Worden, Alfred Merrill 'Al' Worden, command module pilot of the Apollo 15
RMWA7XA2–Margaret W. ‘Hap’ Brennecke, first female welding engineer to work in the Materials and Processes Laboratory at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
RM2T3J6KB–Hugh L. Dryden, Dr. Hugh Latimer Dryden, director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
RM2H65W3J–Deke Slayton (checked jacket) shows the adapter devised to make use of square Command Module lithium hydroxide canisters to remove excess carbon dioxide from the Apollo 13 LM cabin. The adapter was devised by Ed Smylie. From left to right, members of Slayton's audience are Flight Director Milton L. Windler, Deputy Director/Flight Operations Howard W. Tindall, Director/Flight Operations Sigurd A Sjoberg, Deputy Director/Manned Spaceflight Center Christopher C. Kraft, and Director/Manned Spaceflight Center Robert R. Gilruth.
RM2K7XH2D–Dr. Wernher von Braun briefs Astronaut John Glenn in the control room of the Vehicle Test Section, Quality Assurance Division, Marshall Space Flight Center
RMTCRHJ2–Fifty years ago on Oct. 22, 1968, Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo mission, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Bermuda. All mission objectives were accomplished, and with a duration of nearly 11 days, the flight proved the ability of the spacecraft and crew to complete an 8-day lunar landing mission. Apollo 7 crew in the doorway of the recovery helicopter. Left to right, are commander Walter Schirra, command module pilot Donn Eisele, and lunar module pilot Walter Cunn. To their right is Dr. Donald E. Stullken, NASA Recovery Team Leader
RMTCRHF2–Earnest C. Smith in the NASA's Astrionics Laboratory in 1964
RM2H99J77–Discussion in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) dealing with the Apollo 13 crewmen during their final day in space. From left to right are Glynn S. Lunney, Shift 4 flight director; Gerald D. Griffin, Shift 2 flight director; astronaut James A. McDivitt, manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program, MSC; Dr. Donald K. Slayton, director of Flight Crew Operations, MSC; and Dr. Willard R. Hawkins, M.D., Shift 1 flight surgeon.
RMC1M8CB–Dr. Joanne Simpson
RMBY7N54–Icing on Westinghouse J-34 engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland Ohio.
RMC10DF6–Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly
RMC10DGR–John F. Victory (1892-1974) was the NACA's first employee and the only executive secretary it ever had.
RMC0BWR7–General Dwight Eisenhower
RM2H99J5J–A water level view of the Apollo 13 recovery operations in the South Pacific Ocean. The three astronauts as seen egressing their spacecraft. John L. Swigert Jr. (back to camera), command module pilot, is already in the life raft. Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot, facing camera, is stepping into the life raft. James A. Lovell Jr., commander, is leaving the spacecraft in the background. A United States Navy underwater demolition team assists with the recovery operations. The three crewmembers were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship, USS Iwo Jima
RME28KGF–USS-E1 (SS-24) submarine, circa 1912
RMCX110P–Astronaut Neil Armstrong receives the first Congressional Space Medal of Honor from President Jimmy Carter
RMC2N23J–Alfred J. Eggers
RMEHJ717–NACA photo, test pilots (from left) Mel Gough, Herb Hoover, Jack Reeder, Steve Cavallo and Bill Gray stand in front of a P-47 Thunderbolt.
RMD00PB2–Harry Julian Allen or Harvey Allen, was an aeronautical engineer and a Director of the NASA Ames Research Center
RMBPT9CW–IBM Electronic Data Processing Machine introduced in 1954
RMBYC13A–X-4 program with what Langley engineers euphemistically called 'Female Computer' support personnel.
RMBY7N4X–An engineer operating a rig used for studying film-cooling of combustors. 1952
RMBYC13C–Barbara S. Askins, chemist at NASA, 1978
RMD7JX3D–Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper
RMC2N1PY–Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames at his desk at the NACA headquarters.
RMBYC14J–Pearl I Young at the NACA Langley Instrument Research Laboratory. 1961
RMC2N1R9–Differential Analyzer
RMC0KR9E–Sikorsky YR-4B/HNS-1 helicopter is seen in the 30 x 60 Full Scale Wind Tunnel.
RMC1YPRP–Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard. American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket
RME4JR8J–Lt. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips, director of the Apollo lunar landing program, reflects on the flight of Apollo 11
RMCYD6R9–Astronaut John W. Young
RMC37NBP–Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom wishes Alan Shepard good luck as he gets into his Mercury capsule, dubbed Freedom 7.
RMBY7N52–A television camera is focused by NACA technician on a ramjet engine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory.
RMBY7N71–President Richard M. Nixon is given a briefing on the Apollo Command Module
RME4JR24–Werner von Braun during Apollo 11 launch
RMC0BWXY–HL-10 lifting body aircraft makes a successful landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Dryden Flight Research Center
RMCX113D–President John F. Kennedy receives Mariner 2 Model
RMBYC13K–Jerrie Cobb, a well known female pilot in the 1950s, testing Gimbal Rig in the Altitude Wind Tunnel, AWT in April 1960.
RMC2N24C–Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft crash
RMC0BWX3–Mechanical Engineer Michael Guerrero works on the Robot Brain Surgeon testbed in the NeuroEngineering Group
RMBYC14F–Uhura on Star Trek. From the 1970's until the late 1980's, NASA employed Nichelle Nichols to recruit new astronaut candidates.
RMC1M8HF–Robert Goddard, a pioneer in rocket development who is credited with creating and building the first liquid-fueled rocket.
RMC0BWYD–The Paresev 1-A standing Rogers Dry Lakebed at the NASA Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.
RMC0BWWD–The Paresev (Paraglider Research Vehicle) was an experimental NASA glider aircraft based upon the kite-parachute studies by NASA
RMBYC13W–Kitty Joyner, electrical engineer, at Langley in 1952.
RMBY7N78–Ramjet Missile
RME4JR8B–Flight controllers Charles Duke (Capcom), Jim Lovell (backup CDR) and Fred Haise (backup LMP) during lunar module descent
RMC1M8HY–Apollo 10 crew, Thomas P. Stafford pats the nose of Snoopy, the mission's mascot, held by Jamye Flowers
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