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MA-1 Capsule Reassembled Aft …
Title MA-1 Capsule Reassembled After Explosion
Full Description The main objectives of Mercury Atlas-1's (MA-1) were to recover the capsule and test the integrity of the Mercury capsule structure and afterbody shingles. About one minute after liftoff MA-1 exploded and the remaining debris landed 7 miles off the Florida shore. The debris was collected and engineers attempted to reassemble MA-1 to determine the cause of the explosion.
Date 07/29/1960
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Mercury 8 in Hanger
Title Mercury 8 in Hanger
Full Description Personnel in Hangar S at Cape Canaveral, Florida prepare Wally Schirra's Mercury 8 capsule nicknamed "Sigma 7" for delivery to the launch pad to be mated to the Atlas launch vehicle.
Date 09/10/1962
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Astronaut John Glenn During …
Title Astronaut John Glenn During Mercury-Atlas 6 Pre-launch Activities
Full Description Astronaut John Glenn gives ready sign during Mercury-Atlas 6 pre- launch training activities.
Date 01/23/1962
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
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
Big Joe Ready for Launch at …
Title Big Joe Ready for Launch at Cape Canaveral
Full Description Big Joe ready for launch at Cape Canaveral, FL. The objective of "Big Joe" was to test the ablating heatshield. The flight was both a success and failure ? the heatshield survived reentry and was in remarkably good condition when retrieved from the Atlantic. The Atlas-D booster, however, failed to stage and separated too late from the Mercury capsule.
Date 09/09/1959
NASA Center Headquarters
John Glenn enters his Friend …
Title John Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule
Full Description Project Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. enters his Mercury ?Friendship 7? capsule before launch on February 20, 1962. At 9:47 a.m. (EST), his Atlas launch vehicle lifted him into orbit for his flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds. Onboard Friendship 7, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, and the third American to fly in space. A faulty signal indicating a problem with the heat shield forced NASA mission controllers to cut the flight to only three orbits, but Glenn returned to Earth safely.
Date 02/20/1967
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
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.
0313-192: The Wrong Galaxy
Title 0313-192: The Wrong Galaxy
Explanation Centered above [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/2003/04/ ] is distant galaxy 0313-192, some one billion light-years away. Radio emission from the galaxy has been mapped by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020528.html ] and is shown in red, composited with a visible light image from the Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys. Dust [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020703.html ] lanes and other features in the Hubble image as well as infrared Gemini [ http://www.gemini.edu/science/galacticjet.html ] telescope data demonstrate clearly that 0313-192 is a spiral galaxy seen edge-on [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010510.html ]. (Note the unrelated spiral galaxy seen face-on [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010427.html ] above and to the right.) For years, double cosmic clouds [ http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~abridle/ dragnparts.htm ] of radio emission such as those flanking this spiral galaxy's core have been studied and cataloged [ http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/atlas/ ]. But, at least until now, such radio sources [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020226.html ] were only known to arise from the cores of giant elliptical galaxies or in violent merging galaxy systems, making 0313-192 the wrong kind of galaxy [ http://stardate.org/resources/galaxy/types.html ] to be found in this scenario. Astronomers are searching for clues [ http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v34n4/aas201/ 795.htm ] to why this spiral galaxy, potentially similar to our own Milky Way, shows such powerful activity.
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
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
ATDA atop Atlas launch vehic …
Title ATDA atop Atlas launch vehicle launched from Kennedy Space Center
Description An Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) atop an Atlas launch vehicle is launched from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 14 at 10 a.m., June 1, 1966. The ATDA is a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 9-A space mission.
Date Taken 1966-06-01
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
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