Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 1903 - 2006. Historical Photograph Files

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Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 1903 - 2006. Historical Photograph Files

1958-1964

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This series consists of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headquarters photograph files. The files are comprised of photographs taken at NASA field facilities throughout the United States, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California; Langley Research Center, Virginia; Ames Research Center, California; Manned Spacecraft Center, Texas; and Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photographs of astronauts and NASA employees are interspersed throughout the series. The principal focus of this series, however, concerns endeavors related to manned space flight and explorations of the Earth's atmosphere. Coverage of Project Mercury, Project Gemini, and Project Apollo is particularly extensive, with many views of the spacecraft and booster rockets and of astronauts training for missions. Photographs relating to Project Mercury, NASA's program to put a manned spacecraft in orbital flight around the Earth, include images of the unmanned tests Little Joe 2, Mercury-Atlas 1 through Mercury-Atlas 5, and Mercury-Redstone 1 and 2. There is also coverage of the manned Project Mercury missions Freedom 7 (the suborbital flight that successfully put Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first U.S. astronaut, in space), Liberty Bell 7, Friendship 7 (the three-orbit flight with John H. Glenn), Aurora 7, Sigma 7, and Faith 7. Also documented in this series are the early preparations for Project Gemini, including views of the Gemini spacecraft and of the astronauts. Of note are photographs of John Young and Virgil Grissom undergoing training for the March 23, 1965, Gemini III mission, which was the project's first manned mission. There is also photographic coverage relating to the developmental phase of the Apollo Program, the third phase of NASA's manned space flight program. These photographs, taken between 1962 and 1964, consist primarily of images of artists' conceptions and diagrams, mockups, and prototypes, and tests of systems and vehicles. Other NASA operations photographed in this series include images of several launches of rockets to gather data on atmospheric conditions or to release satellites. Among the launches recorded are those pertaining to the Aerobee, Delta 4, Juno, Nike, and Scout rockets. Also included are photographs of satellites conceived and/or launched by NASA. Included are images of the Advanced Orbiting Solar Observatory (AOSO), Beacon Explorer, and Echo satellites; Mariner and Ranger spacecraft; and Explorer 1, the first satellite successfully launched by the United States. There are also photographs relating to the polar-orbiting Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) and Nimbus meteorological satellites. Included also in the series are portraits of James E. Webb, NASA's second administrator.

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