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Mariner 1 Launch
title Mariner 1 Launch
date 07.22.1962
description An Atlas-Agena 5 carrying the Mariner 1 spacecraft lifts off from the Cape Kennedy Launch Complex on a mission to Venus. The rocket went off course and was blown up by a range safety officer about 5 minutes into flight. One month later, Mariner 2's launch was successful and it became the first spacecraft to fly past Venus in December 1962. *Image Credit*: NASA
Mariner 2
title Mariner 2
description Mariner 2 was the world's 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, sending back valuable new information about interplanetary space and the Venusian atmosphere. Mariner 2 recorded the temperature at Venus for the first time, revealing the planet's very hot atmosphere of about 500 degrees Celsius (900 degrees Fahrenheit). The spacecraft's solar wind experiment measured for the first time the density, velocity, composition and variation over time of the solar wind. *Image Credit*: NASA/JPL
Mariner 1 Launch
Title Mariner 1 Launch
Full Description An Atlas-Agena 5 carrying the Mariner 1 spacecraft lifted off today from Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 12. The Mariner spacecraft is scheduled to orbit Venus.
Date 7/22/1962
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Artist's Concept of Seasat-A
Title Artist's Concept of Seasat-A
Full Description An artist's concept of Seasat A, the first spacecraft dedicated for oceanographic studies. Seasat A was designed for monitoring the Earth's oceans with active microwave instruments. The scientific objectives were to collect data on sea-surface winds, oceanography, sea-surface temperatures, wave heights, wavelength and direction, atmospheric water, and sea ice features. Seasat-A was launched on June 16, 1978, on an Atlas-Agena launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The mission ended after 116 days due to a failure of the spacecraft's electric power system. The mission demonstrated the feasibility of using microwave sensors to monitor ocean conditions, and laid the groundwork for future ocean missions. The science of oceanography began more than 100 years ago with the sailing of HMS Challenger. Challenger's round-the- world trip became the model for oceanographic voyages.
Date 5/16/1978
NASA Center Headquarters
Atlas Agena Launch
Title Atlas Agena Launch
Full Description Atlas Agena target vehicle liftoff for Gemini 11 from Pad 14. Once the Agena was in orbit, Gemini 11 rendezvoused and docked with it.
Date 9/12/1966
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Atlas-Agena
Name of Image Atlas-Agena
Date of Image 1962-04-23
Full Description The Atlas-Agena-4 boosted the Ranger IV spacecraft for the first U.S. lunar impact on April 23, 1962.
Titan, Gemini 12, liftoff
Name of Image Titan, Gemini 12, liftoff
Date of Image 1966-11-11
Full Description The Gemini 12 astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin lifted off aboard a Titan launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center on November 11, 1966. an hour and a half after their Agena target vehicle was orbited by an Atlas rocket. The Gemini Program was an intermediate step between Project Mercury and the Apollo Program. The major objectives were to subject are two men and supporting equipment to long duration flights, to effect rendezvous and docking with other orbiting vehicle, and to perfect methods of reentry, and landing the spacecraft.
Atlas Agena Launch
Name of Image Atlas Agena Launch
Date of Image 1966-03-16
Full Description On March 16, 1966, an Atlas booster launched an Agena Target Vehicle for the Gemini 8 mission. The flight crew for the 3 day mission, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott, achieved the first rendezvous and docking to Atlas/Agena in Earth orbit.
Gemini 8 Launched by Titan B …
Name of Image Gemini 8 Launched by Titan Booster
Date of Image 1966-03-16
Full Description A Titan booster launched the Gemini 8 spacecraft on March 16, 1966 from launch complex 19 Cape Kennedy, Florida. The flight crew for the 3 day mission, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott, achieved the first rendezvous and docking to Atlas/Agena in Earth orbit.
Atlas-Agena, Gemini 12, laun …
Name of Image Atlas-Agena, Gemini 12, launch
Date of Image 1966-11-11
Full Description The launch of an Atlas-Agena booster carrying the target vehicle for the Gemini 12 mission on November 11, 1966. The Gemini Program was the intermediate step between the Project Mercury and the Apollo Program. Major objectives of the Gemini Program were to subject two men and supporting equipment to long duration flights, and to effect rendezvous and docking with other orbiting vehicles.
Atlas/Agena, Mariner-V, laun …
Name of Image Atlas/Agena, Mariner-V, launch
Date of Image 1967-06-14
Full Description The Atlas/Agena launch vehicle carrying The Mariner-V spacecraft on launch pad on June 14, 1967. The Marina V mission was to explore the planet Venus.
Early Rocketry Models
Name of Image Early Rocketry Models
Date of Image 1967-10-18
Full Description Photographed are models of early rocketry: The Atlas Mercury, Atlas Centaur, and Atlas Agena.
Launching of the Atlas/Agena …
Title Launching of the Atlas/Agena from Pad 14
Description The Atlas/Agena vehicle was launched on October 25, 1965 from Pad 14. Intended as a rendezvous target in the Gemini 6 mission, the Agena failed to achieve orbit, and the Gemini 6 mission was scrubbed.
Date Taken 1965-10-25
Atlas/Agena on Pad 14 during …
Title Atlas/Agena on Pad 14 during pre-launch operations
Description View of the Atlas/Agena on Pad 14 during pre-launch operations. The Agena is atop its Atlas launch vehicle.
Date Taken 1965-10-25
Agena Target Docking Vehicle …
Title Agena Target Docking Vehicle liftoff prior to Gemini 8 launch
Description An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle lifted off Launch Complex 14 at Cape Kennedy at 10 a.m. March 16, 1966, just prior to the Gemini 8 launch. The Agena served as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 8 spacecraft. A chase plane leaves a contrail in the background.
Date Taken 1966-03-16
Astronauts Stafford and Cern …
Title Astronauts Stafford and Cernan during Gemini 9/Agena Launch demonstration
Description Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (on left), command pilot, and Eugene A. Cernan, pilot, in Gemini 9 spacecraft in the White Room at Pad 19 during a Gemini 9 / Agena Simultaneous Launch Demonstration. This test is a coordinated countdown of the Atlas-Agena and the Gemini-Titan vehicles (33406), Stafford (right foreground) and Cernan prepare to enter the Gemini 9 spacecraft in the White Room atop Pad 19. NASA and McDonnell Aircraft Corporation personnel stand by to assist with the insertion of the astronauts into the spacecraft (33407).
Date Taken 1966-05-10
Astronauts Stafford and Cern …
Title Astronauts Stafford and Cernan during Gemini 9/Agena Launch demonstration
Description Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (on left), command pilot, and Eugene A. Cernan, pilot, in Gemini 9 spacecraft in the White Room at Pad 19 during a Gemini 9 / Agena Simultaneous Launch Demonstration. This test is a coordinated countdown of the Atlas-Agena and the Gemini-Titan vehicles (33406), Stafford (right foreground) and Cernan prepare to enter the Gemini 9 spacecraft in the White Room atop Pad 19. NASA and McDonnell Aircraft Corporation personnel stand by to assist with the insertion of the astronauts into the spacecraft (33407).
Date Taken 1966-05-10
Agena Target Vehicle atop At …
Title Agena Target Vehicle atop Atlas Launch vehicle launched from KSC
Description An Agena Target Vehicle atop its Atlas Launch vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 14 at 10:15 am.m., May 17, 1966. The Agena was intended as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 9 spacecraft. However, since the Agena failed to achieve orbit, the Gemini 9 mission was postponed.
Date Taken 1966-05-17
Agena Target Docking Vehicle …
Title Agena Target Docking Vehicle during prelaunch preparations at Complex 14
Description An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle during prelaunch preparations at Launch Complex 14. The Agena will be a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 10 space flight.
Date Taken 1966-07-18
Agena Target Docking Vehicle …
Title Agena Target Docking Vehicle during prelaunch preparations at Complex 14
Description An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 14 at 3:39 p.m., July 19, 1966. The Agena will be a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 10 space flight.
Date Taken 1966-07-18
Agena Target Docking Vehicle …
Title Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop Atlas launch vehicle at Launch complex 14
Description An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle is ready for launch at Launch Complex 14. The Agena served as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 11 spacecraft.
Date Taken 1966-09-12
Launch of Agena Target Docki …
Title Launch of Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop Atlas launch vehicle
Description An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched fromt the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 14 at 6:05 a.m., September 12, 1966. The Agena served as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 11 spacecraft.
Date Taken 1966-09-12
Momument at Pad 14 honoring …
Title Momument at Pad 14 honoring Project Mercury
Description Momument at Pad 14 honoring Project Mercury. The Arabic number 7 represents the seven original astronauts. The other figure is the astronomical symbol of the Planet Mercury. In background is the Gemini 12 Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Date Taken 1966-11-09
Agena Target Docking Vehicle …
Title Agena Target Docking Vehicle launched from KSC
Description An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 14 at 2:08 p.m., November 11, 1966. The Agena served as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 12 spacecraft.
Date Taken 1966-11-11
Apollo
Title Apollo
Description An early lunar excursion model was designed on a Friday afternoon in early 1961 by John D. Bird and Ralph W. Stone, Jr., of Langley Research Center for project. Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. wrote in Chariots For Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft: "From December 1960 to the summer of 1961, Langley continued its analyses of lunar-orbit rendezvous as it applied to a manned lunar landing. Bird and Stone among others, studied hardware concepts and procedures, ascent trajectories between the landing site and lunar orbit, and final rendezvous and docking maneuvers. Their findings were distributed in technical reports throughout NASA and in papers presented to professional organizations and space flight societies. In the spring of 1961, these Langley engineers compiled a paper proposing a three-phase plan for developing rendezvous capabilities that would ultimately lead to manned lunar landings: (1) MORAD (Manned Orbital Rendezvous and docking), using a Mercury capsule to prove the feasibility of manned rendezvous and to establish confidence in the techniques, (2) ARP (Apollo Rendezvous Phase), using Atlas, Agena, and Saturn vehicles to develop a variety of rendezvous capabilities in earth orbit, and (3) MALLIR (Manned Lunar Landing Involving Rendezvous), employing Saturn and Apollo components to place men on the moon." (p. 69)
Date 10.04.1961
Space Station - early concep …
Title Space Station - early concept
Description Models of proposed space station launch vehicles (l-r): Saturn TB, Titan II Gemini, Atlas Agena.
Date 04.19.1963
Mariner 2
PIA04594
Title Mariner 2
Original Caption Released with Image Mariner 2 was the world's 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, sending back valuable new information about interplanetary space and the Venusian atmosphere. Mariner 2 recorded the temperature at Venus for the first time, revealing the planet's very hot atmosphere of about 500 degrees Celsius (900 degrees Fahrenheit). The spacecraft's solar wind experiment measured for the first time the density, velocity, composition and variation over time of the solar wind.
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