NASA Space Exploration Photograph Collection circa 1965-1976

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Voyager Project

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Viking Mars Program (U.S.)

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Henry W. Norris was the Viking Orbiter manager; Kermit S. Watkins, deputy manager; Allen E. Wolfe, spacecraft system manager; and Dr. Conway W. Snyder, Viking Orbiter scientist. Norris was JPL's spacecraft system manager for the Mariner Mars l969 Project. He was named to the Viking position after the successful launch of Mariner VI last February and Mariner VII in March. (from JPL Press Release dated April 17, 1969 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/60s/release_1969_0512.html accessed...

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, photographers.

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NASA unmanned space probes launched during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s produced a variety of 4x5 inch computer-generated negatives from radio-telemetric data of the solar system. In 1986, the curators of 25 Years of Space Photography: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, an exhibition and catalogue from 1985-1986, gave five negatives to a senior project leader at NASA. Subsequently, Blackpoint Editions used these original negatives, scanned as 2400 dpi files...