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William A. Schulze and Hans Palaoro at Marshall Space Flight Center.
The bulletin board behind Schulze reads "Vehicle Engineering Branch." Palaoro was the head of the Vehicle Systems Engineering Branch of the Structures and Mechanics Division at Marshall Space Flight Center. -
Wernher and Maria von Braun at a cocktail party given for the Alabama legislature.
A note on the back of the photo reads, "Cocktail Party for legislature at time Huntsville wanted Research Park & Institute for university." From left to right: Mrs. Foster Haley, Mrs. Milton Cummings, Wernher von Braun, Maria von Braun, Roscoe Roberts, Ryan DeGraffenried, and Milton Cummings. -
Various organization charts of NASA-MSFC during 1960-1969.
A collection of organization charts from years 1960 to 1969. -
Two astronauts driving a test model of the lunar roving vehicle (LRV).
Developed by Marshall Space Flight Center and built by Boeing, the LRV was an electric vehicle used to explore the Moon's surface during the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions. -
The Apollo Lunar Surface Drill team at Marshall Space Flight Center.
John Bensko, Jr. is seated in the center of the front row. -
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Saturn Launch Vehicles Astrionics System Handbook.
Includes change pages. Contract NAS8-14000. Second revised edition. V66-15610. NASA-CR71607. The introduction notes, "This second revised edition of the Astrionics System Handbook has been developed under the direction and overall supervision of Dr. Rudolf Decher of the Astrionics Systems Engineering Office. This description of the Saturn Astrionics System has been generated by personnel of the Astrionics Laboratory, the staff of the Astrionics Systems Engineering Office, and by personnel of the International Business Machines Corporation working under Contract NAS8- 14000. The handbook will be updated and expanded as it becomes necessary due to changes or refinements in the system concept and hardware. Sections not contained in the first release of this document will be made available within three months." Signed by Ludie G. Richard, Chief, Systems Engineering Office, Astrionics Laboratory. The document is missing pages in the following locations: Chapters 8, 9, 12. Sections 15.2, 15.3, 15.4-1 thru 15.4-16, 15.5-1 thru 15.5-2, 15.5-5 thru 15.5-8. -
Saturn Launch Vehicles Astrionics System Handbook, 2nd revised edition.
This updated edition of the Astrionics System Handbook instructs, "The enclosed pages change, delete, or supplement the information in the Astrionics System Handbook (1 August 1965). Insert these pages and destroy the pages they replace." -
Saturn IB launch project development plan.
This document is an official release of Manned Space Flight and its requirements shall be implemented by all cognizant elements of Manned Space Flight Program. William Teir, Manager, Saturn IB Program; E. F. O'Connor, Director, Industrial Operations; Wernher Von Braun, Director, Marshall Space Flight Center; Samuel C. Phillips, Director, Apollo Program. -
Reproduction of "Apollo Interface Control Document Log."
This copy is a reproduction of a document held by the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility . -
Publication listing.
The document is a list of tools from the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at MSFC. Included in the list are the tool numbers, titles, and stages of development. Prior to the list the document includes a handwritten note from Bill Vardaman. Issue April 1968. Office R-ME-TDP. -
Program from "Life in the Universe," the Sixth Annual Von Braun Exploration Forum.
The program includes biographic sketches of the Forum speakers, as well as songs performed by guest speaker and space enthusiast John Denver. -
Program from "He Conquered Space," the Ninth Annual Von Braun Exploration Forum.
The program includes biographical sketches of the speakers, including John S. Hendricks, Rick Chappell, and Walter Cronkite. -
President John F. Kennedy visits Marshall Space Flight Center.
Shown in the photograph, left to right: President John F. Kennedy, Robert C. Seamans, Wernher von Braun, James E. Webb, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert S. McNamara, Jerome D. Wiesner, and Harold Brown. -
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. -
Marshall Space Flight Center Space Day 1961 program.
The program includes "Marshall Center Highlights" from the Center's first year, a message from director Wernher von Braun, a photograph of the Space Queen and Princesses, and a guide to the Center's buildings. -
Marshall Space Flight Center History
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Marshall Space Flight Center "Lunar Landing Celebration" program.
The celebration included an employee picnic, a dance, and an open house. -
Map of completed and proposed Apollo moon landing sites.
The map shows landing locations on the moon's surface, including proposed landing sites of the cancelled Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 missions. This map was created as part of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) Project. -
F-1 engine photograph.
8 x 10 inch black and white photograph. Engine parts are labeled. -
Double seal insulation [drawing] photograph.
8 x 10 inch black and white photograph.; Drawing contains information about the modified epoxy adhesive, aluminum film, mylar film, perforated phenolic honeycomb core, tank skin, mylar honeycomb core, polyurethane adhesive, weight and thermal conductivity.; Photo negative no. 651746 M-268. -
Circular announcing MSFC's involvement with the documentation of the Saturn program at the UAH Research Institute.
The documentation noted in the circular is available at UAH Archives and Special Collections in the Saturn V Collection. -
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Abbreviated timeline of the Apollo 11 mission.
The timeline includes a memorandum from Friedjof A. Speer, manager of the Missions Operations Office, to employees of Marshall Space Flight Center. Speer notes that "astronaut Neil Armstrong is scheduled to be the first man to step onto the moon's surface." The timeline outlines the entire mission from liftoff at 8:32 AM on Wednesday, July 16, 1969 to splashdown at 11:49 AM on Thursday, July 24, 1969. -
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. -
Space Intelligence Notes, September 1963.
This is Vol. 4, No. 9 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. According to the table of contents page, topics include various articles from the world press such as re-useable research rocket, high speed cameras, Soviet plans, and space pursuits; from the semitechnical literature such as the effects of noise and vibration on man; from the technical literature including astrophysics, atmospheric physics, chemistry, instrumentation, life support, orbital mechanics, organic chemistry, space flight, and vehicle engineering; space and technology section translations; on books; and bibliographies. -
Space Intelligence Notes, September 1962.
This is Vol. 3, No. 9 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. According to the table of contents page, topics include various articles from the world press such as the possibly launch of a Soviet space laboratory station in 1963 and the report of the existance of water on the Moon; from the semitechnical literature such as Russian studies of ways to send a man to the moon and the intensification of Soviet radiation studies; from the technical literature including aerodynamics, astronomy, astrophysics, chemistry, geophysics, mechanics, metallurgy, microscopy, nuclear physics, physics, production engineering, and spacecraft; on books; and bibliographies. -
Space Intelligence Notes, September 1961.
This is Vol. 2, No. 9 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Topics include NASA translations of Soviet publications, the satellite orbit of Vostok 2, the space launching of Soviet spacecraft, a reported luminescent ionosphere around Venus, Russian plans for a manned space station, possible Russian concentration on rocket shots at the Moon, new volumes available of a Soviet space publication on artificial Earth satellites, transmission into space with AM short-wave telegraph-telephone transmitters, Soviet high-speed photoelectric spectrophotometer, future Soviet space communication techniques, and various Soviet experiments, research, and discoveries. -
Space Intelligence Notes, October 1963.
This is Vol. 4, No. 10 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. According to the table of contents page, topics include various articles from the world press such as ice from space, US tracking station plans, the presence of intelligent beings on Mars, and sun eruptions possibly causing atomic geysers on the Moon; from the semitechnical literature such as sun power; from the technical literature including astrogeology, life support, materials engineering, physics, theoretical physics, and nuclear physics; and bibliography. -
Space Intelligence Notes, October 1962.
This is Vol. 3, No. 10 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. According to the table of contents page, topics include various articles from the world press such as space-war preparations within Soviet military, the disclosure of six Soviet space failures, U.S. and Italy's new joint space program, and USSR to attempt sun data shots; from the semitechnical literature such as the Moon as a power source, the launching of Cosmos 8, lunar atmosphere creation, and the charting of space threats; from the technical literature including astronomy, astrophysics, biosciences, chemistry, communciations, geoscience, instruments, materials, metallurgy, oceanography, photography, physics, production engineering, propulsion, radio astronomy, spacecraft, and telemetry; on books, and bibliographies. -
Space Intelligence Notes, October 1961.
This is Vol. 2, No. 10 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Topics include the second list of NASA translations of Soviet publications, a detailed account and analysis of the flight of the Soviet satellite Vostok II, the revealing of the international satellite communications system SPACEWARN, Russian study of anabiosis for possible use in space flight, the retardation of Earth's rotation, the development of an experimental model of an electromagnetic flowmeter by the Russians and their success in converting glass into microcrystalline materials, and various other studies conducted by the Soviets. -
Space Intelligence Notes, November 1963.
This is Vol. 4, No. 11 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. According to the table of contents page, topics include various articles from the world press such as rocket firing progress in India, the election of a new president, and the exchange of measurement experts between the US and USSR; from the semitechnical literature such as Soviet aims in astronomy and space research; from the technical literature including communication, materials engineering, space flight, tracking, and vehicle engineering; and bibliographies. -
Space Intelligence Notes, November 1962.
This is Vol. 3, No. 11 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. According to the table of contents pages, topics include various articles from the world press such as Russian claims of astronauts orbiting four miles apart, Soviet photos of thermal radiation, and the Soviet launch of Cosmos 10; from the semitechnical literature such as the description of the Vostok spaceship; from the technical literature including astrionics, astronomy, astrophysics, atmospherics, chemistry, flight mechanics, instrumentation, life sciences, physics, power, production engineering, and propulsion; on books; and selected bibliographies. -
Space Intelligence Notes, November 1961.
This is Vol. 2, No. 11 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Topics include the third list of NASA translations of Soviet publications, Soviet nuclear tests, the primary education of Soviet youth compared to American education, U.S. and Russian measurements of Venus, corrosion behavior of titanium alloys, Polish study of nonlinear pressure oscillations during combustion, the development of a transistorized device for registering cosmic rays by the Soviet Union, speculations on future space achievements, the Soviet Lunik II carrier vehicle and payload, and a review of Soviet literature. -
Space Intelligence Notes, November 1, 1960.
This is Vol. 1, No. 1 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Topics include the use of television in Soviet space research to transmit pictures of the reverse side of the Moon to Earth, a proposed plan to use a ring of small particles around the Earth to create heat and light, an experimental Soviet space ship in orbit with two dogs onboard and other essentials for future manned flights, a Soviet published book on problems associated with flights to the Moon, discoveries and theories of the composition of the surface of the Moon, and international reactions to U-2 flights over Russia. -
Space Intelligence Notes, May 1963.
This is Vol. 4, No. 5 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. According to the table of contents page, topics include various articles from the world press such as the new French tracking radar, Soviet generators' use of wind power, and the reality of the US-Soviet joint space effort; from the semitechnical literature such as experiences from the US and Soviet of manned space flights, physical conditioning during space flight, and the possibility of "Moon glow" and "Moon shine"; from the technical literature including astrogeology, lasers, materials engineering, physics, space flight, and science and technology section translations; on books; and bibliographies. -
Space Intelligence Notes, May 1962.
This is Vol. 3, No. 5 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. According to the table of contents page, topics include various articles from the world press such as the Russian proposal of a joint moon flight and artificial gravity to aid future cosmonauts; from the semitechnical literature such as the possibility of Russian development of thermonuclear weapons in space; from the technical literature including aerodynamics, astrophysics, geophysics, materials, metallugy, meteorology, nuclear physics, physics, process engingeering, propellants, and spacecraft; on books; and selected bibliographies. -
Space Intelligence Notes, March 1963.
This is Vol. 4, No. 3 of Space Intelligence Notes, a publication of the Space Systems Information Branch at the Marshall Space Flight Center. According to the table of contents page, topics include various articles from the world press such as the Soviet Mars 1 spacecraft, the announcement of a new French satellite tracking radar, and the details of space cooperation between Americans and Russians; from the semitechnical literature such as the "correction" of Newton by Soviet scientist, and Soviet preparations for a manned orbit flight; from the technical literature including astrionics, astronomy, astrophysics, geology, instrumentation, life support, materials fabrication, physics, space medicine, and theoretical physics; on books; and bibliographies.