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President John F. Kennedy being interviewed by a reporter while MSFC director Wernher von Braun looks on.
Kennedy visited Huntsville for a second time on Armed Forces Day 1963. His first visit occurred on September 11, 1962. -
University of Alabama Statement of Costs, Redstone Graduate Program, 1963-1964.
The document outlines costs associated with laboratories and graduate coursework in math, physics, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. -
1965 map of Huntsville.
The map is an excerpt from the tourist brochure "This is Huntsville" published by First National Bank. -
"Huntsville: Strategic Center of the Southeast."
The map is an excerpt from Huntsville tourism materials, "Information Kit, Facts, and Figures on Living in Huntsville-Madison County, Alabama." -
Letter from Christel L. McCanless at the UAH Library to the Army Missile Support Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.
In the letter, McCanless requests the transfer of scientific and engineering journals from Redstone to support research and teaching at the University. A list of the journals is enclosed. -
Letter from George W. Croker at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Fred Croxton, director of the Redstone Scientific Information Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
In the letter, Croxton discusses an agreement made between the University of Alabama and Redstone Scientific Information Center (RSIC) to share library services and materials, including journal subscriptions, messenger service, and access to the RSIC facility. -
"Recommendations for a consolidated library."
The flier discusses coordination of library services between the UAH Library, the Research Institute, and Redstone Scientific Information Center. -
Group photograph of transplanted German engineers at Fort Bliss, Texas.
This photo is a reprint of the original. -
Excerpt from the 1946 daybook of William A. Schulze.
This excerpt includes pages 36 and 37 of the daybook. In the entries, Schulze notes his travel to Fort Bliss, Texas from Aberdeen, Maryland. A translation is included. -
Preparing a V-2 for launch at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.
U.S. Army photo. This photo is a reprint of the original. -
Excerpt from the journal of Charles A. Lundquist.
The entry describes a meeting during which Lundquist, Wernher von Braun, Ernst Stuhlinger, and John O'Keefe discuss the possibility of a Russian satellite launch and the U.S. Navy's Project Vanguard. -
Map of "Village on the Moon for Scientists and Visitors," from Space Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, Fall 1958.
Japanese architect and engineer Hiroshi Kumagai drew this map of a moon base to accompany his article "A Proposal for a Village on the Moon." -
NASA personnel wait to greet President John F. Kennedy during his second visit to Huntsville.
Kennedy visited Huntsville on Armed Forces Day 1963. He first visited the area on September 11, 1962. -
Crowds and television cameras wait for President John F. Kennedy during his second visit to Huntsville.
Kennedy visited Huntsville on Armed Forces Day 1963. He first visited the area on September 11, 1962. -
"Educational Lift-Off: Dedication 1969."
The program dedicates three new Huntsville schools, each named for a member of the Apollo crew that died in the pad fire of February 21, 1967. This program was included in one of two scrapbooks that Christel and George McCanless made for UAH history professor Frances Roberts in 1969. -
"Personalities of Deployment Test Program at Huntsville, AL Boeing Test Facility: Quips and Quotes, Development of Lunar Rover 'Golf Cart' Astronauts Drove on the Moon, by R. Lancaster."
This album contains a series of photographs from the construction of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) at the Boeing test facility in Huntsville, Alabama. Ron Lancaster, a longtime Boeing engineer, added humorous speech bubbles and notes to the photographs, many of which depict himself and his colleagues. The album includes a group shot of the engineers with a completed LRV. -
Saturn V history team at the Apollo 10 launch.
Shown left to right: David Christensen, Melvin Kranzberg, Irving B. Holley, Jr., Rudolf Hermann, and Fred Ordway. -
Excerpt from the journal of Irmgard Stuhlinger.
Stuhlinger attended the launch of Apollo 11 with her husband Ernst Stuhlinger, then the Associate Director for Science at Marshall Space Flight Center. In the entries, she describes her reaction to the launch and the successful lunar landing and makes note of the celebrations she and her family attended in Huntsville. She also records her daily activities, including socializing with neighbors and shopping with her children. A translation is included. -
"Monte Sano State Park."
"A spectacular view from Monte Sano State Park near Huntsville, Alabama. Color by Wayne Floyd." -
"Call for a Madison County Mass Meeting, to Oppose the Ratification of the So-Called Constitution of Alabama."
This broadside was published by conservative Alabamians in opposition to the 1868 Alabama constitution, known as the "Reconstruction Constitution." The constitution was revised by the constitutional convention on November 5, 1867, and ratified in 1868. -
"1965 Publications," Materials Division, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center.
This document is a compilation of abstracts of NASA Technical Memorandums and MSFC Internal Notes, written by personnel of the Materials Division and released during 1965. -
1966 Chronology of Marshall Space Flight Center.
This draft copy of the chronology includes a memorandum from Marshall Historian L. L. Jones of the Historical Office. -
"A Discussion of the Lunar Landing Problem."
Digesu worked in the Astrionics Division of MSFC. This paper was presented at the AIAA Guidance & Control Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 12-14, 1963. -
"Advances in Pumping Technology and Rocket Engine Turbopump Applications."
Presented by Charles A. MacGregor, Supervisor, Advanced Turbomachinery during Workshop D, Royce Hall, Room 160 at UCLA on 2 June 1964, as a part of the NASA-UCLA Symposium and Workshop on the Transformation of Knowledge and Its Utilization. The introduction notes, "This report is divided into two general parts. The first part is a description of turbopumps for liquid rocket engines as they exist today. For completeness and understanding, some background information is included on why turbopumps have evolved to their present configurations. The second part suggest portions of this effort that may have some applicability to the general economy." -
Advanced Astrionics project review.
Given at the IRAD Technical Seminar, Gaithersburg, Maryland, January 30, 1968. F. L. Pugh, Principal investigator; E. C. Caldwell, Advanced IU Systems, IBM Huntsville. -
"Aero-Astrodynamics Laboratory Bimonthly Progress Report: June - July 1968."
Includes Technical and Scientific Staff; Advanced Studies Office; Projects Office; Aerospace Environment Division; Aerophysics Division; Astrodynamics and Guidance Theory Division; Dynamics and Flight Mechanics Division; Flight Test Analysis Division. -
"Aero-Astrodynamics Laboratory Bimonthly Progress Report: April - May 1968."
Includes Advanced Studies Office, Aerospace Environment Division, Astrodynamics and Guidance Theory Division, Projects Office, Aerophysics Division, Dynamics and Flight Mechanics Division, Flight Test Analysis Division.