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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA.  -    In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF), the overhead crane carries the multi-purpose logistics module Donatello from its work stand across the floor to a payload canister.  Donatello is being transferred to the Operations and Checkout Building to make room in the SSPF for the arrival of elements for future flights from other ISS partners. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-06pd0530

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Space ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF), the overhead crane carries the multi-purpose logistics module Donatello from its work stand across the f... More

Off-the-record report on Spain. Washington, D.C., March 30. A dark secret was the report American Ambassador to Spain, Claude Bowers gave to the House Foreign Affairs Committee today on the possibility of Spain becoming a satellite of Germany and Italy. Bowers, right, is pictured with Rep. Sol Bloom. chairman of the Committee, and Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, republican of Massachusetts. 3-30-39

Off-the-record report on Spain. Washington, D.C., March 30. A dark sec...

A group of men and women sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1957. Motiv av Sputnik och jordglob.

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.F...

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1957. Motiv av Sputnik och jordglob.

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1961. Motiv av jordglob och planeten Venus, rymdkarta. "Rysk satellit på väg till planeten Venus 12 fabruari 1961".

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.F...

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1961. Motiv av jordglob och planeten Venus, rymdkarta. "Rysk satellit på väg till planeten Venus 12 fabruari 1961".

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1963. Motiv av jordglob, satelit och stiliserad rymdkarta. "Austronat Dag".

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.F...

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1963. Motiv av jordglob, satelit och stiliserad rymdkarta. "Austronat Dag".

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1961. Motiv av jordglob och rymdskepp. "Sputnik. Vostoks resa runt jorden 6 augusti 1961. Rymspiloten Major G. S. Titov i Vostok".

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.F...

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1961. Motiv av jordglob och rymdskepp. "Sputnik. Vostoks resa runt jorden 6 augusti 1961. Rymspiloten Major G. S. Tit... More

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1961. Motiv av jordglob och rysk Sputnik. "Inskreption: Beröm åt arbete och vetenskap".

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.F...

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1961. Motiv av jordglob och rysk Sputnik. "Inskreption: Beröm åt arbete och vetenskap".

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1960. Motiv av Kremlin med Sovjetstjärnan. "Rymdskeppet Sputnik II över Moskwa och jorden med rymdhundarna Belka och Strelka som apssagerare 19-20 augusti 1960".

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.F...

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Ryssland, 1960. Motiv av Kremlin med Sovjetstjärnan. "Rymdskeppet Sputnik II över Moskwa och jorden med rymdhundarna Belka och ... More

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Andorra, 1962. Motiv av jordglob och satellit. "Första televisionn kommunikation vid satellit via Pleumeur-Bodou (Frankrike) och Andover (USA).

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.F...

Frimärke ur Gösta Bodmans filatelistiska motivsamling, påbörjad 1950.Frimärke från Andorra, 1962. Motiv av jordglob och satellit. "Första televisionn kommunikation vid satellit via Pleumeur-Bodou (Frankrike) oc... More

Early Rockets. NASA public domain image colelction.

Early Rockets. NASA public domain image colelction.

Launch of a three-stage Vanguard (SLV-7) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, September 18, 1959. Designated Vanguard III, the 100-pound satellite was used to study the magnetic field and radiation belt. In September ... More

Echo 30" Sub Satellite NASA history collection

Echo 30" Sub Satellite NASA history collection

James Hansen describes the work on Project Echo s air density experiment known as the Sub-Satellite. Before launch engineers subjected the sub-satellite to many tests. Here, the sub-satellite is shown prior ... More

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

America’s first scientific satellite, the Explorer I, carried the radiation detection experiment designed by Dr. James Van Allen and discovered the Van Allen Radiation Belt. It was launched aboard a modified re... More

NASA Early Rockets, Army ballistic missile agency

NASA Early Rockets, Army ballistic missile agency

The Army Ballistic Missile Agency incorporated the von Braun team in key positions with Dr. von Braun as a head of the Development Operations Division. On October 4, 1957, the Nation was shocked when the Russia... More

Photograph of the Delta Launch Vehicle on Launch Complex 17B with the Relay II Communications Satellite

Photograph of the Delta Launch Vehicle on Launch Complex 17B with the ...

Original caption: Cape Kennedy, Florida - On Launch Complex 17B stands the Delta launch vehicle with the Relay II communications satellite mated to its third stage. If a successful launch is achieved, it will ... More

Explorer I Architects, JPL/NASA images

Explorer I Architects, JPL/NASA images

The three men responsible for the success of Explorer 1, America's first Earth satellite which was launched January 31, 1958. At left is Dr. William H. Pickering, former director of JPL, which built and operate... More

NASA Explorer 1 Launch, Army ballistic missile agency

NASA Explorer 1 Launch, Army ballistic missile agency

(January 31, 1958) Launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 31, 1958. After the Russian Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957, the launching of an American satellite assumed much gr... More

Photograph of the Delta Launch Vehicle on Launch Complex 17B with the Relay II Communications Satellite

Photograph of the Delta Launch Vehicle on Launch Complex 17B with the ...

Original caption: Cape Kennedy, Florida - On Launch Complex 17B stands the Delta launch vehicle with the Relay II communications satellite mated to its third stage. If a successful launch is achieved, it will ... More

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Explorer 1 satellite. This photo was taken during the installation of Explorer-1, the first United States' Earth-orbiting satellite, to its launch vehicle, Jupiter-C, in January 1958

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Explorer I, the first American satellite, is scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 29, 1958 ksc-68p-1

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Explorer I, the first American satellite...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Explorer I, the first American satellite, is scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 29, 1958

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 31, 1958. After the Russian Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957, the launching of an American satellite assumed much greater importance. A... More

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

This illustration shows the main characteristics of the Jupiter C launch vehicle and its payload, the Explorer I satellite. The Jupiter C, America's first successful space vehicle, launched the free world's fir... More

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 31, 1958. After the Russian Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957, the launching of an American satellite assumed much greater importance. A... More

First Picture from Explorer VI Satellite

First Picture from Explorer VI Satellite

(August 14, 1959) This is the first crude picture obtained from Explorer VI Earth satellite launched August 7, 1959. It shows a sun-lighted area of the Central Pacific ocean and its cloud cover. The picture was... More

View of Explorer VII. NASA public domain image colelction.

View of Explorer VII. NASA public domain image colelction.

A Juno II launched an Explorer VII satellite on October 13, 1959. Explorer VII, with a total weight of 91.5 pounds, carried a scientific package for detecting micrometeors, measuring the Earth's radiation balan... More

Juno II (AM-11) launch vehicle. NASA public domain image colelction.

Juno II (AM-11) launch vehicle. NASA public domain image colelction.

A Juno II launched an Explorer VII satellite on October 13, 1959. Explorer VII, with a total weight of 91.5 pounds, carried a scientific package for detecting micrometeors, measuring the Earth's radiation balan... More

Juno II (AM-11) launch vehicle. NASA public domain image colelction.

Juno II (AM-11) launch vehicle. NASA public domain image colelction.

Installing Pioneer IV, payload for AM-14 (Juno II) onto the fourth stage on the cluster before a spin test, February 16, 1959. The Pioneer IV, lunar and planetary exploration satellite, was the first U.S. satel... More

Juno II (AM-11) launch vehicle. NASA public domain image colelction.

Juno II (AM-11) launch vehicle. NASA public domain image colelction.

The launch of Juno II (AM-14), carrying the lunar and planetary exploration satellite in orbit, Pioneer IV, on March 3, 1959. the Pioneer IV probe was the first U.S. satellite to orbit the Sun.

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

This image is a cutaway illustration of the Explorer I satellite with callouts. The Explorer I satellite was America's first scientific satellite launched aboard the Jupiter C launch vehicle on January 31, 1958... More

Workers in KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF-2) prepare the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) above them for electrical testing. The TDRS is scheduled to be launched from CCAFS June 29 aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket. One of three satellites (labeled H, I and J) being built in the Hughes Space and Communications Company Integrated Satellite Factory in El Segundo, Calif., the latest TDRS uses an innovative springback antenna design. A pair of 15-foot-diameter, flexible mesh antenna reflectors fold up for launch, then spring back into their original cupped circular shape on orbit. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system’s existing Sand Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the space shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit KSC00pp0713

Workers in KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF-...

Workers in KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF-2) prepare the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) above them for electrical testing. The TDRS is scheduled to be launched from CCAFS... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Taken from the Vehicle Assembly Building roof at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this image shows the Press Site complex with a myriad of vehicles, satellite trucks and trailers belonging to invited guests and media for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis began its final flight, the STS-135 mission, to the International Space Station at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8.        STS-135 will deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station. Atlantis also will fly the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit. In addition, Atlantis will return with a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems. STS-135 will be the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and the 135th and final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Jeffrey Marino KSC-2011-5267

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Taken from the Vehicle Assembly Building roof ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Taken from the Vehicle Assembly Building roof at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this image shows the Press Site complex with a myriad of vehicles, satellite trucks and trailers ... More

The logo for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) is predominantly displayed on the fairing that will encapsulate the satellite for launch. The fairing is in KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF-2) where TDRS is undergoing testing. The TDRS is scheduled to be launched from CCAFS June 29 aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket. One of three satellites (labeled H, I and J) being built in the Hughes Space and Communications Company Integrated Satellite Factory in El Segundo, Calif., the latest TDRS uses an innovative springback antenna design. A pair of 15-foot-diameter, flexible mesh antenna reflectors fold up for launch, then spring back into their original cupped circular shape on orbit. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system’s existing Sand Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the space shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit KSC-00pp0714

The logo for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) is predomi...

The logo for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) is predominantly displayed on the fairing that will encapsulate the satellite for launch. The fairing is in KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulatio... More

Leaving billowing clouds of steam and smoke behind, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) shoots into the blue sky aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket from Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff occurred at 8:56 a.m. EDT. One of three satellites (labeled H, I and J) being built by the Hughes Space and Communications Company, the latest TDRS uses an innovative springback antenna design. A pair of 15-foot-diameter, flexible mesh antenna reflectors fold up for launch, then spring back into their original cupped circular shape on orbit. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system’s existing Sand Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the space shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit KSC-00pp0827

Leaving billowing clouds of steam and smoke behind, NASA’s Tracking an...

Leaving billowing clouds of steam and smoke behind, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) shoots into the blue sky aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket from Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. ... More

Three-Radial-Module Space Station Concept

Three-Radial-Module Space Station Concept

This three-radial-module space station concept was intended to utilize Apollo hardware to deploy the station and to transfer crews to and from orbit...Image # : S-64-3704

In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) at right sits while one-half of the fairing (left) is moved closer to it. After encapsulation in the fairing, TDRS will be transported to Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for launch scheduled June 29 aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket. One of three satellites (labeled H, I and J) being built in the Hughes Space and Communications Company Integrated Satellite Factory in El Segundo, Calif., the latest TDRS uses an innovative springback antenna design. A pair of 15-foot-diameter, flexible mesh antenna reflectors fold up for launch, then spring back into their original cupped circular shape on orbit. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system’s existing Sand Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the space shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit KSC00pp0749

In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility, the Tracking an...

In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) at right sits while one-half of the fairing (left) is moved closer to it. After encapsulation in the fairing... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --  Workers make adjustments on the first part of the fairing around the TDRS-J satellite before encapsulation continues. The satellite is scheduled to be launched aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIA-Centaur rocket from Launch Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on Dec. 4.  The third in a series of telemetry satellites, TDRS-J will help replenish the current constellation of geosynchronous TDRS satellites. The TDRS System is the primary source of space-to-ground voice, data and telemetry for the Space Shuttle. It also provides communications with the International Space Station and scientific spacecraft in low-Earth orbit such as the Hubble Space Telescope. This new advanced series of satellites will extend the availability of TDRS communications services until about 2017. KSC-02pd1776

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers make adjustments on the first p...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers make adjustments on the first part of the fairing around the TDRS-J satellite before encapsulation continues. The satellite is scheduled to be launched aboard a Lockheed M... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --  Radar operator Scott Peabody tests the X-band radar array installed on the solid rocket booster retrieval ship Liberty before launch of Space Shuttle Discovery.  It is one of  two Weibel Continuous Pulse Doppler X-band radars located on each of the two SRB retrieval ships.  This one will be located downrange of the launch site. It is one of  two Weibel Continuous Pulse Doppler X-band radars located on each of the two SRB retrieval ships.  This one will be located downrange of the launch site.  Working with the land-based C-band radar, the X-band radars provide velocity and differential shuttle/debris motion information during launch.  The radar data will be sent from the ships via satellite link and analyzed at the C-band radar site located on north Kennedy Space Center.  Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton KSC-06pd2648

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Radar operator Scott Peabody tests the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Radar operator Scott Peabody tests the X-band radar array installed on the solid rocket booster retrieval ship Liberty before launch of Space Shuttle Discovery. It is one of two... More

Echo - A Passive Communications Satellite

Echo - A Passive Communications Satellite

Echo, NASA's first communications satellite, was a passive spacecraft based on a balloon design created by an engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center. Made of Mylar, the satellite measured 100 feet (30 meter... More

Saturn I - Saturn Apollo Program -  the first stage of the Saturn I

Saturn I - Saturn Apollo Program - the first stage of the Saturn I

This cutaway illustrates the S-I stage, the first stage of the Saturn I vehicle developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The stage was propelled by a cluster of eight H-1 engines, capable of produc... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site bull pen at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, The LEGO Group's Daire McCabe and NASA's Associate Administrator for Education Leland Melvin talk about the LEGO sets going up to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission. NASA and The LEGO Group will send 23 LEGO sets to the station and some of those sets include a space shuttle, an ISS model, a Global Positioning Satellite and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The sets will be used for NASA's Teaching From Space Project, which is part of a three-year Space Act Agreement with the toy maker to spark the interest of children in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Liftoff is scheduled for April 29 at 3:47 p.m. EDT. This will be the final spaceflight for Endeavour. For more information visit, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin KSC-2011-3140

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site bull pen at NASA's Kennedy S...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Press Site bull pen at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, The LEGO Group's Daire McCabe and NASA's Associate Administrator for Education Leland Melvin talk about the LEGO set... More

TIROS, America's First Meteorological Satellite

TIROS, America's First Meteorological Satellite

It is hard to imagine the evening news without satellite imagery. But in 1960, space-based meteorology was in its formative stages, still to be proven. One of the earliest groups to transfer to the newly organi... More

Early Program Development - 1960 artist's concept

Early Program Development - 1960 artist's concept

This 1960 artist's concept shows a 24-hour communication satellite design incorporating an arc engine with a nuclear power source. The concept was one of many missions proposed by the Marshall Space Flight Cent... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's GOES-P meteorological satellite is moved to the edge of the cargo bay of a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft for offloading.    GOES-P, the latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, was developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA.  GOES-P is designed to watch for storm development and observed current weather conditions on Earth.  Launch of GOES-P is targeted for no earlier than Feb. 25, 2010, from Launch Complex 37 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket.  For information on GOES-P, visit http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/spacecraft/n_p_spacecraft.html. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-2009-6864

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kenne...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's GOES-P meteorological satellite is moved to the edge of the cargo bay of a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft f... More

William G. Stroud of NASA, project manager of the TIROS I, displaying the satellite circuitry to Lyndon B. Johnson and others / [WKL].

William G. Stroud of NASA, project manager of the TIROS I, displaying ...

Public domain photograph related to administration of President Lyndon Johnson, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The crated Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) is pulled inside the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF-2) after its arrival at KSC. The TDRS will undergo testing in the SAEF-2. One of three satellites (labeled H, I and J) being built in the Hughes Space and Communications Company Integrated Satellite Factory in El Segundo, Calif., the latest TDRS uses an innovative springback antenna design. A pair of 15-foot-diameter, flexible mesh antenna reflectors fold up for launch, then spring back into their original cupped circular shape on orbit. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system’s existing Sand Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the space shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit. The TDRS is scheduled to be launched from CCAFS June 29 aboard an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket KSC-00pp0711

The crated Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) is pulled inside...

The crated Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) is pulled inside the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility (SAEF-2) after its arrival at KSC. The TDRS will undergo testing in the SAEF-2. One of t... More

At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, lines help guide the ascent of a Centaur rocket up the launch tower where it will be mated with the lower stage Atlas IIA rocket already in the tower. The Lockheed-built Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket will launch the latest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) June 29 from CCAFS. The TDRS is one of three (labeled H, I and J) being built in the Hughes Space and Communications Company Integrated Satellite Factory in El Segundo, Calif. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system’s existing Sand Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the space shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit KSC-00pp0704

At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, lines help guide ...

At Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, lines help guide the ascent of a Centaur rocket up the launch tower where it will be mated with the lower stage Atlas IIA rocket already in the tower. The Lo... More

After tower rollback just before dawn on Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) sits bathed in spotlights before liftoff atop an Atlas IIA/Centaur rocket. One of three satellites (labeled H, I and J) being built by the Hughes Space and Communications Company, the latest TDRS uses an innovative springback antenna design. A pair of 15-foot-diameter, flexible mesh antenna reflectors fold up for launch, then spring back into their original cupped circular shape on orbit. The new satellites will augment the TDRS system’s existing Sand Ku-band frequencies by adding Ka-band capability. TDRS will serve as the sole means of continuous, high-data-rate communication with the Space Shuttle, with the International Space Station upon its completion, and with dozens of unmanned scientific satellites in low earth orbit KSC00pp0822

After tower rollback just before dawn on Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canavera...

After tower rollback just before dawn on Launch Pad 36A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-H) sits bathed in spotlights before liftoff atop an Atlas IIA/Centaur ro... More

Display of a Scout Satellite Launch Vehicle

Display of a Scout Satellite Launch Vehicle

This item is a photograph of a Scientist Standing next to a display of a Scout Satellite Launch Vehiclethat was part of an exhibit display at the British Science Museum in 1984. SCOUT (Solid Controlled Orbital ... More

Inflation Test of 135 Ft Satellite In Weeksville, NC

Inflation Test of 135 Ft Satellite In Weeksville, NC

Description: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration 100-foot-diameter satellite, designed by the Space Vehicle Group of the NASA Langley Research Center and constructed by General Mills of Minneapoli... More

Photograph 2 of Astronaut Edward H. White II's Space Walk on Gemini IV

Photograph 2 of Astronaut Edward H. White II's Space Walk on Gemini IV

This item is a photograph of astronaut Edward H. White II's space walk (Extra Vehicular Activity) on Gemini IV. Source Files on Project Gemini

ECHO Horn Antenna. NASA public domain image colelction.

ECHO Horn Antenna. NASA public domain image colelction.

(June 1961) The Horn reflector antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey was built in 1959 for pioneering work in communication satellites for the NASA ECHO I. The antenna was 50 feet in len... More

Nancy Roman, Space Poineer, NASA history, Goddard space flight center

Nancy Roman, Space Poineer, NASA history, Goddard space flight center

Description: (1962) Dr. Nancy Roman, one of the nations top scientists in the space program, is shown with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO). ..Roman received her PhD in astronomy from the Univers... More

Mariner 2 Artist Concept, JPL/NASA images

Mariner 2 Artist Concept, JPL/NASA images

NASA Mariner 2 was the world first successful interplanetary spacecraft. Launched August 27, 1962, on an Atlas-Agena rocket, Mariner 2 passed within about 34,000 kilometers 21,000 miles of Venus. NASA/JPL

Mars 1. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mars 1. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description: (November 1, 1962) Mars 1 was an automatic interplanetary station launched in the direction of Mars, with the intent of flying by the planet at a distance of about 11,000 km. It was designed to ima... More

Första telesatellitsamtalet Sverige - USA, 1962.

Första telesatellitsamtalet Sverige - USA, 1962.

Första telesatellitsamtalet Sverige - USA, 1962. Public domain photograph - Sweden in 20th century, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

Mercury Atlas VII - Earth Observations

The original caption reads: Earth Observations taken during the Mercury Atlas 7 (MA-1) flight. Film type was 5250 : Eastman Color Negative, 35mm. Categories: Earth Observations Resolution Format: 35MM CN. Mercury VII

Utställningen på Tekniska museet. Rymden i mänsklighetens tjänst. Telstar satellit.

Utställningen på Tekniska museet. Rymden i mänsklighetens tjänst. Tels...

Utställningen på Tekniska museet. Rymden i mänsklighetens tjänst. Telstar satellit. Public domain photograph of a spacecraft, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Explorer XVII Satellite, NASA history, Goddard space flight center

Explorer XVII Satellite, NASA history, Goddard space flight center

Weighing 405 lbs. (184 kg), this 35-inch (89-cm) pressurized stainless steel sphere measured the density, composition, pressure and temperature of Earth's atmosphere after its launch from Cape Canaveral on Apri... More

RELAY II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO

RELAY II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLI...

RELAY II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1964-71370

RELAY II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO

RELAY II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLI...

RELAY II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1964-71388

TIROS VI SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO

TIROS VI SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLI...

Identifier: C-1964-71376 Public domain photograph of NASA satellite, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of a spacecraft, space exploration, free to use,... More

ARIEL II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO

ARIEL II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLI...

ARIEL II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1964-71373

Female Computer. NASA public domain image colelction.

Female Computer. NASA public domain image colelction.

(January 1, 1964) Melba Roy headed the group of NASA mathematicians, known as "computers," who tracked the Echo satellites. Roy's computations helped produce the orbital element timetables by which millions cou... More

The Ranger Spacecraft. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Ranger Spacecraft. NASA public domain image colelction.

(January 30, 1964) The Ranger fleet of spacecraft launched in the mid-sixties provided for the first time live television transmissions of the Moon from lunar orbit. These transmissions resolved surface feature... More

RANGER III SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO

RANGER III SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUB...

RANGER III SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1964-71392

TIROS VI SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO

TIROS VI SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLI...

TIROS VI SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO NASA Identifier: C-1964-71376

Nimbus-A, Weather Satellite. NASA public domain image colelction.

Nimbus-A, Weather Satellite. NASA public domain image colelction.

Nimbus-A, an advanced meteorological satellite, was launched August 28, 1964, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a Thor-Agena B launch vehicle. The satellite was designed in two sections. The lower ... More

Sequence of Assembly of OAO Shroud at SPC

Sequence of Assembly of OAO Shroud at SPC

(June 24, 1965) Assembly of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) for shroud jettison tests in the Space Power Chamber (SPC) at Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Lewis is now known as the John H. Gl... More

Pegasus, meteoroid detection satellite  - Saturn Apollo Program

Pegasus, meteoroid detection satellite - Saturn Apollo Program

In this photograph, the Pegasus, meteoroid detection satellite is installed in its specially modified Apollo service module atop the S-IV stage (second stage) of a Saturn I vehicle for the SA-9 mission at Cape ... More

Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 Rendezvous

Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 Rendezvous

This photograph taken on December 15, 1965 shows the Gemini 7 spacecraft as it was observed from the hatch window of the Gemini 6 spacecraft during rendezvous manuevers and station keeping at a distance of appr... More

Engineers checkout Early Bird-Communication Satellite

Engineers checkout Early Bird-Communication Satellite

(1965) Engineers Stanley R. Peterson (left) and Ray Bowerman (right), checkout the Early Bird, the world's first communication satellite. NASA launched the satellite built by Hughes Aircraft Corporation on Apri... More

Gemini VI Launch, NASA Gemini program

Gemini VI Launch, NASA Gemini program

The Gemini VI, scheduled as a two-day mission, was launched December 15, 1965 from Pad 19, carrying astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., Command Pilot, and Thomas P. Stafford, Pilot. Gemini VI rendezvoused with Ge... More

Saturn I - check of Pegasus meteoroid detection surfac

Saturn I - check of Pegasus meteoroid detection surfac

Fairchild technicians check out the extended Pegasus meteoroid detection surface. The Pegasus was developed by Fairchild Stratos Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland, for NASA through the Marshall Space Flight Cen... More

SEQUENCE OF ASSEMBLY OF ORBITING ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OAO SHROUD AT THE SPACE POWER CHAMBER SPC

SEQUENCE OF ASSEMBLY OF ORBITING ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OAO SHROUD A...

SEQUENCE OF ASSEMBLY OF ORBITING ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OAO SHROUD AT THE SPACE POWER CHAMBER SPC NASA Identifier: C-1965-1458

Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 Rendezvous

Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 Rendezvous

(December 15, 1965) This photograph taken on December 15, 1965 shows the Gemini 7 spacecraft as it was observed from the hatch window of the Gemini 6 spacecraft during rendezvous manuevers and station keeping a... More

Zond 2. NASA public domain image colelction.

Zond 2. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description: (1965) Zond 2 was an automatic interplanetary station launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (64-078A) in Earth parking orbit towards Mars to test space-borne systems and to carry out scientific investi... More

Pegasus-1, meteoroid detection satellite - Saturn Apollo Program

Pegasus-1, meteoroid detection satellite - Saturn Apollo Program

Pegasus-1, meteoroid detection satellite, installed on Saturn I (SA-9 mission) S-IV stage, January 13, 1965. The satellite was used to obtain data on frequency and penetration of the potentially hazardous micro... More

Wernher von Braun with the Director of the MSFC Launch Operation Directorate, Dr. Debus

Wernher von Braun with the Director of the MSFC Launch Operation Direc...

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director, Dr. Wernher von Braun (left) confers with the Director of the MSFC Launch Operation Directorate, Dr. Debus, during the countdown for the Saturn/Pegasus (Saturn I, S... More

Saturn I - Saturn Apollo Program

Saturn I - Saturn Apollo Program

The SA-9 (Saturn I Block II), the eighth Saturn I flight, lifted off on February 16, 1965. This was the first Saturn with an operational payload, the Pegasus I meteoroid detection satellite. SA-9 successfully d... More

Saturn I - during lift-off of the Saturn I, SA-9 mission

Saturn I - during lift-off of the Saturn I, SA-9 mission

Activities at Green Mountain Tracking Station, Alabama, during lift-off of the Saturn I, SA-9 mission, showing the overall view of instrument panels used in tracking the Pegasus, meteoroid-detection satellite. ... More

Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-1 Shroud Test in Space Power Chambers

Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-1 Shroud Test in Space Power Chamber...

Preparations for a shroud jettison test for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-1 (OAO-1) satellite in the Space Power Chambers facility at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Resea... More

Gemini 11 maintenance, NASA Gemini program

Gemini 11 maintenance, NASA Gemini program

(July 21, 1966) The Gemini 11 spacecraft is lowered onto a dolly for preflight maintenance before stacking on the Titan rocket at the Kennedy Space Center. Dick Gordon and Pete Conrad would liftoff in this spac... More

FIRST DROP TEST IN THE 500 FOOT DROP TOWER IN THE ZERO GRAVITY FACILITY

FIRST DROP TEST IN THE 500 FOOT DROP TOWER IN THE ZERO GRAVITY FACILIT...

FIRST DROP TEST IN THE 500 FOOT DROP TOWER IN THE ZERO GRAVITY FACILITY NASA Identifier: C-1966-2292

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will carry NASA's Aquarius satellite into low Earth orbit is raised onto the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex-2 (SLC-2) in California. While the Delta II rocket is stacked on SLC-2, teams for NASA's Glory spacecraft and Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket are in launch preparation mode at Vandenberg's nearby Space Launch Complex 576-E.    Scheduled to launch in June, Aquarius' mission will be to provide monthly maps of global changes in sea surface salinity. By measuring ocean salinity from space, Aquarius will provide new insights into how the massive natural exchange of freshwater between the ocean, atmosphere and sea ice influences ocean circulation, weather and climate. Also going up with the satellite are optical and thermal cameras, a microwave radiometer and the SAC-D spacecraft, which were developed with the help of institutions in Italy, France, Canada and Argentina. Photo credit: NASA/VAFB KSC-2011-1966

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The first stage of the Delta II r...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The first stage of the Delta II rocket that will carry NASA's Aquarius satellite into low Earth orbit is raised onto the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Laun... More

NASA ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES - Glenn Research Center History

NASA ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES - Glenn Research Center History

ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES NASA Identifier: C-1966-1916 Public domain photograph of NASA satellite, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- At Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, Gemini 8 lifts off atop a Titan II rocket with command pilot Neil A. Armstrong and pilot David R. Scott aboard. They plan to rendezvous and dock with an Agena target satellite and Scott will perform a spacewalk. Photo Credit: NASA KSC-66PC-0038

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- At Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, Ge...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- At Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, Gemini 8 lifts off atop a Titan II rocket with command pilot Neil A. Armstrong and pilot David R. Scott aboard. They plan to rendezvous and do... More

COMPRESSOR - UPRIGHTING SYSTEM - APOLLO MANUFACTURING - SPACECRAFT (S/C)-102 COMMAND MODULE (CM) - NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION (NAA), CA

COMPRESSOR - UPRIGHTING SYSTEM - APOLLO MANUFACTURING - SPACECRAFT (S/...

S66-41852 (1966) --- Spacecraft 012 looking toward -Y axis during installation of heat shield. Note uprighting system compressor in aft bay, at right, and Reaction Control System (RCS) valve module panel, cente... More

GEMINI-9 - EARTH SKY - EVA. NASA public domain image colelction.

GEMINI-9 - EARTH SKY - EVA. NASA public domain image colelction.

S66-38050 (5 June 1966) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan took this close-up view of the Gemini-9A spacecraft during his extravehicular activity (EVA) on the Gemini-9A mission. Taken during the 32nd revolution of ... More

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-11 - PREFLIGHT PREP - CHECKOUT - CAPE

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-11 - PREFLIGHT PREP - CHECKOUT - CAPE

S66-47635 (21 July 1966) --- McDonnell Aircraft Corporation personnel bolt the Gemini-11 spacecraft to a support ring for bore sighting in the Pyrotechnic Installation Building, Merritt Island, during checkout ... More

GT-11 - EARTH SKY - RENDEZVOUS. NASA orbital flight public domain image.

GT-11 - EARTH SKY - RENDEZVOUS. NASA orbital flight public domain imag...

S66-54810 (14 Sept. 1966) --- The Agena Target Docking Vehicle is tethered to the Gemini-11 spacecraft during its 31st revolution of Earth. Area below is the Gulf of California and Baja California at La Paz. Ta... More

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- At Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, Gemini 12 pilot Edwin E. Buzz Aldrin Jr., seated in the spacecraft, practice stowing cameras and other equipment he and command pilot James A. Lovell will take along on their upcoming four-day Earth orbital mission. Lovell and Aldrin examined the equipment in the "White Room" atop Launch Complex 19. During Gemini 12, Lovell and Aldrin plan to rendezvous and dock with an Agena target satellite and Aldrin will perform two spacewalks. Photo Credit: NASA KSC-66P-0516

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- At Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, Ge...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- At Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, Gemini 12 pilot Edwin E. Buzz Aldrin Jr., seated in the spacecraft, practice stowing cameras and other equipment he and command pilot James A.... More

Gemini XII Mission Image - Major Aldrin during EVA

Gemini XII Mission Image - Major Aldrin during EVA

The original caption reads: Photograph of Major Edwin E. Aldrin during Extravehicular Activity taken during the Gemini XII mission during orbit no. 28. Original magazine number was GEM12-10-62765. Film type w... More

GT-12 - EARTH SKY - PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE

GT-12 - EARTH SKY - PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE

S66-62939 (12 Nov. 1966) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., pilot of the Gemini-12 spaceflight, performs extravehicular activity (EVA) during the second day of the four-day mission in space. Aldrin is at the Ag... More

Mosaic of Clouds from ESSA-5 satellite

Mosaic of Clouds from ESSA-5 satellite

This digital mosaic of cloud pictures was taken by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) 5 satellite on September 14, 1967. It shows more than a dozen storm areas, including hurricanes Beulah... More

Mating of Lunar Module-1 with Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter-7

Mating of Lunar Module-1 with Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter-7

S67-50927 (November 1967) --- Lunar Module-1 being moved into position for mating with Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA)-7 in the Kennedy Space Center's Manned Spacecraft Operations Building. LM-1 and SLA-7... More

APOLLO-SATURN (A/S)-204 - SPACECRAFT (S/C)- 012 COMMAND SERVICE MODULE (CSM) - A/S MATING - CAPE

APOLLO-SATURN (A/S)-204 - SPACECRAFT (S/C)- 012 COMMAND SERVICE MODULE...

S67-15704 (3 Jan. 1967) --- Transfer of Apollo Spacecraft 012 Command/Service Module (CSM) for mating with the Saturn Lunar Module (LM) Adapter No.05 in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building. Spacecraft 012... More

COMMAND MODULE (C/M) - SPACECRAFT (S/C) 012 C/M - APOLLO/SATURN (A/S) 204 PREPARATIONS - CAPE

COMMAND MODULE (C/M) - SPACECRAFT (S/C) 012 C/M - APOLLO/SATURN (A/S) ...

S67-15717 (1967) --- Apollo Spacecraft 012 Command/Service Module is moved from H-134 to east stokes for mating to the Saturn Lunar Module Adapter No. 05 in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building. S/C 012 wi... More

KSC-67P-0259, Apollo program Saturn V rocket images

KSC-67P-0259, Apollo program Saturn V rocket images

Apollo spacecraft 017 leaves the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at Kennedy Space Center on its way to the Vehicle Assembly Building where it will be mated with the Saturn 501 launch vehicle. The first f... More

Saturn V - S-IC (first) stage of the Saturn V vehicle

Saturn V - S-IC (first) stage of the Saturn V vehicle

This photograph is a view of stacking the major components of the S-IC (first) stage of the Saturn V vehicle at the Boeing vertical assembly building at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF). The view shows the S... More

Workmen at the Kennedy Space Center hoist the Saturn Lunar Module (LM) Adapter into position during assembly of the 204LM-1, an unmanned Apollo mission that tested the Apollo Lunar Module in Earth orbit. Also known as Apollo 5, the spacecraft was launched on the fourth Saturn IB launch vehicle. Developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) as an interim vehicle in MSFC's "building block" approach to the Saturn rocket development, the Saturn IB utilized Saturn I technology to further develop and refine a larger booster and the Apollo spacecraft capabilities required for the manned lunar missions. n/a

Workmen at the Kennedy Space Center hoist the Saturn Lunar Module (LM)...

Workmen at the Kennedy Space Center hoist the Saturn Lunar Module (LM) Adapter into position during assembly of the 204LM-1, an unmanned Apollo mission that tested the Apollo Lunar Module in Earth orbit. Also k... More

Saturn V command module - Apollo Program

Saturn V command module - Apollo Program

This is a cutaway illustration of the Saturn V command module (CM) configuration. The CM was crammed with some of the most complex equipment ever sent into space at the time. The three astronaut couches were su... More

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