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Vanguard 2C vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) airplane, wind tunnel test. Front view from below, model 14 1/2...
In a ceremony honoring Dr. Wernher von Braun, who served as Marshall Space Flight Center Director from 1960 to 1970,...
Thomas Jack Lee served as the sixth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center from July 6, 1989 to January 6,...
Dr. Wernher Von Braun, stands in front of a Saturn IB Launch Vehicle at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Dr. Von Braun...
An 80,000-gallon liquid hydrogen tank is placed at the A-3 Test Stand construction site on Sept. 24, 2010. The tank...
Ames aerodynamicists tested a wide variety of VTOL aircraft and helicopters during the 1960's. Here the Hiller...
NASA removed J-2X engine No. 10001 from the A-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in early October. Opening of the...
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was the birthplace of the United States' rocket program. In the early 1960s,...
A photograph from the 1960's showing Stan Lebar, former Westinghouse Electric program manager, holding two cameras...
Four of the five surviving X-15 pilots were on hand when astronaut wings were presented to the three NASA pilots who...
Originally investigated in the 1960's by Marshall Space Flight Center plarners as part of the Nuclear Energy for...
NASA Stennis recently completed a critical infrastructure project to refurbish the gates of the center’s waterway...
A 35,000-gallon liquid oxygen tank is placed at the A-3 Test Stand construction site on Sept. 24, 2010. The tank...
S62-08774 (July 1960) --- These seven men, wearing spacesuits in this portrait, composed the first group of...
Ames aerodynamicists tested a wide variety of VTOL aircraft and helicopters during the 1960's Here the Hiller...
In a ceremony honoring Dr. Wernher von Braun, who served as Marshall Space Flight Center Director from 1960 to 1970,...
Sandra Piernas (right), an employee at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, serves NASA retiree Dewey Little during...
Dr. William R. Lucas served as Marshall Space Flight Center Director from June 15, 1974 until July 3, 1986, when he...
Attached to the same B-52B mothership that once launched X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s, NASA's third X-43A...
The Saturn Project was approved on January 18, 1960 as a program of the highest national priority. The formal test...
NACA Photographer North American F-100A (NACA-200) Super Sabre Airplane take-off. The blowing-tupe boundary-layer...
Bob Crippen, former Kennedy center director and NASA astronaut, speaks to guests during an Astronauts Memorial...
F-111B Fighter, Variable Sweep wings, wings swept forward, landing gear down. Slat experiments. The General...
A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand during the late 1950s. Between 1953...