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Assignment Shoot The Moon Ep …
ASSIGNMENT: SHOOT THE MOON ( …
1967
Description ASSIGNMENT: SHOOT THE MOON (EPISODE 5) HQ 167 - (1967) - 28 Minutes Summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted by the unmanned Ranger, Surveyor, and lunar orbiter spacecraft. Also shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of close-up photography of the Moon and includes views of craters, mountain ranges, and other lunar terrain. AWARDS: Golden Eagle, Council on International Nontheatrical Events (CINE), 1968 * Award of Merit, American Film Festival, 1968
Date 1967
JSC336_Launch_Windows_for_Lu …
LAUNCH WINDOWS FOR LUNAR LAN …
1967
Description LAUNCH WINDOWS FOR LUNAR LANDING JSC 336 - (1967) - 20 Minutes Describes, with animation, the planning of a lunar mission with trajectories and physical capabilities that define these trajectories. Emphasizes launch windows and Earth reentry.
Date 1967
Saturn V First Stage Transfe …
A Saturn V first stage is tr …
1/1/67
Description A Saturn V first stage is transported by barge down the East Pearl River on its way from Stennis Space Center, then named the National Space Technology Laboratories, to Florida for launch.
Date 1/1/67
Saturn V First Stage is Lift …
The first stage of the huge …
1/1/67
Description The first stage of the huge Saturn V rocket is lifted by crane for installation into the B-2 stand at Stennis Space Center (then the Mississippi Test Facility) in March 1967. Both the first and second stages of the Saturn V were tested at the NASA facility in the 1960s. The rockets propelled the Apollo Program's missions to the Moon.
Date 1/1/67
Saturn V First Stage in B-2 …
The first stage of the Satur …
1/1/67
Description The first stage of the Saturn V rocket awaits testing in the B test stand at the Mississippi Test Facility, now Stennis Space Center, where testing of all first and second stages of the rocket during the Apollo program took place.
Date 1/1/67
S-II Stage of Saturn V Rocke …
The S-II stage of the Saturn …
1/1/67
Description The S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket is hoisted onto the A-2 test stand in 1967 at the Mississippi Test Facility, now the Stennis Space Center. This was the second stage of the 364-foot-tall rocket. The second stage was powered by five J-2 engines.
Date 1/1/67
Man and Machine
title Man and Machine
date 11.20.1969
description Charles Conrad Jr., Apollo 12 Commander, examines the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft during the second extravehicular activity (EVA-2). The Lunar Module (LM) "Intrepid" is in the right background. This picture was taken by astronaut Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot. The "Intrepid" landed on the Moon's Ocean of Storms only 600 feet from Surveyor III. The television camera and several other components were taken from Surveyor III and brought back to earth for scientific analysis. Surveyor III soft-landed on the Moon on April 19, 1967. *Image Credit*: NASA
Surveyor 1
title Surveyor 1
date 05.30.1966
description The Surveyor spacecraft was designed to attain the engineering objectives of the Surveyor program, which included the first lunar soft landing. No instrumentation was carried specifically for scientific experiments, but considerable scientific information was obtained. The spacecraft carried two television cameras -- one for approach, which was not used, and one for operations on the lunar surface. Over 100 engineering sensors were on board. The television system transmitted pictures of the spacecraft footpad and surrounding lunar terrain and surface materials. The spacecraft also acquired data on the radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, bearing strength of the lunar surface, and spacecraft temperatures for use in the analysis of the lunar surface temperatures. The spacecraft was launched May 30, 1966, directly into a lunar impact trajectory. Engines were turned off at a height of 3.4 m above the lunar surface. The spacecraft fell freely from this height, landing on the lunar surface on June 2, 1966, in Oceanus Procellarum -- 2.45 deg s latitude, 43.22 deg w longitude (selenographic coordinates). The spacecraft transmitted data from shortly after touchdown until July 14, 1966, with an interval of no operation during lunar night (June 14 to July 7, 1966). Engineering interrogations continued until January 7, 1967. *Image Credit*: NASA
Lunar Maria
title Lunar Maria
description The smooth dark areas on the Moon's surface are called maria (plural for mare, Latin for seas). These volcanic plains are made up of a rock type known as basalt, similar in composition to the rocks found in Hawaii. They cover 17% of the surface area of the Moon. The maria contain physical features such as pits and channels, but lack large volcanos. Features visible in this image of the western part of the lunar nearside include Mare Imbrium, Mare Humorum, Mare Nubium, and the craters Copernicus and Kepler. Copernicus is the most prominent crater with its bright rays composed of ejecta material. This image was taken by one of NASA's Lunar Orbiters in 1967. *Image Credit*: NASA
Surveyor 5 Footpad
title Surveyor 5 Footpad
date 09.11.1967
description This Surveyor 5 image shows its footpad resting on the lunar soil. The trench at right was formed by the footpad sliding during landing. Surveyor 5 landed on the Moon on Sept. 11, 1967 at 1.41 N, 23.18E in Mare Tranquillitatis. The spacecraft landed on the inside edge of a small rimless crater at an angle of about 20 degrees, explaining the sliding. The footpad is about half a meter in diameter. The purpose of the seven Surveyor missions (five of which were successful) were to land safely on the Moon, testing the landing techniques planned for the manned Apollo lunar landers, and take close-up images of the surface and make other observations to find locations that would be safe for Apollo landings. Surveyor 5 was equipped with an alpha-backscatter instrument to determine chemical composition of the soil and a small bar magnet in one of its landing feet to test for magnetic material. Even though it had developed a helium regulator leak and had to land using a hastily and radically re-designed descent profile, the landing was flawless and Surveyor 5 performed even better than its predecessors. Surveyor 5 was launched on September 8, 1967 and landed on September 11, 1967 *Image Credit*: NASA
M2-F2 Crash on Rogers Dry La …
Title M2-F2 Crash on Rogers Dry Lake
Full Description The M2-F2 lifting body aircraft crash landed on Rogers Dry Lakebed at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California on May 10, 1967.
Date 05/10/1967
NASA Center Dryden Flight Research Center
Apollo 1 Astronauts
Title Apollo 1 Astronauts
Full Description Astronauts (left to right) Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, pose in front of Launch Complex 34 which is housing their Saturn 1 launch vehicle. The astronauts later died in a fire on the pad.
Date 1/17/1967
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Apollo 1 crew in training
Title Apollo 1 crew in training
Full Description The prime crew of Apollo 1, Virgil I (Gus) Grissom, Edward H. White, II, and Roger B. Chaffee, during training in Florida. On January 27, 1967, the crew was killed when a fire erupted in their capsule during testing. Apollo 1 was originally designated AS- 204 but following the fire, the astronauts? widows requested that the mission be remembered as Apollo 1 and following missions would be numbered subsequent to the flight that never made it into space.
Date 01/1967
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Apollo 1 Prime Crew
Title Apollo 1 Prime Crew
Full Description Portrait of the Apollo 1 prime crew for first manned Apollo space flight. From left to right are: Edward H. White II, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee. On January 27, 1967 at 5:31 p.m. CST (6:31 local time) during a routine simulated launch test onboard the Apollo Saturn V Moon rocket, an electrical short circuit inside the Apollo Command Module ignited the pure oxygen environment and within a matter of seconds all three Apollo 1 crewmembers perished.
Date 04/01/1966
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Apollo 1's Command Module
Title Apollo 1's Command Module
Full Description This photograph shows Apollo 1's Command Module a day after the fire that took the lives of astronauts Lt. Col. Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom, Lt. Col. Edward Higgins White II, and Lt. Cdr. Roger Bruce Chaffee. The photograph was taken in the White Room at Launch Complex 34 where the Command Module was taken. The exterior effects of the intense heat of the flash fire can be seen. An investigative board was promptly set up to examine the accident and identify the cause of the fire. The final report gave the results of the investigation as well as detailed suggestions for major design and engineering modifications, revisions to test planning, manufacturing procedures, and quality control. With these adjustments, the Apollo program became safer and successfully sent astronauts to the Moon.
Date 01/28/1967
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Mosaic of Clouds from ESSA-5 …
Title Mosaic of Clouds from ESSA-5 satellite
Full Description 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, Dora, Chloe, Monica, and Nannette. The picture signals, received in analog form from the satellite, were sampled at short time intervals, and numbers were assigned according to the brightness indicated by the basic signal. The computer then located each digital value and precise map location. The computer tape containing this information was then displayed on a television-like tube (kinescope) and photographed. The result, a mosaic. The first ESSA satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 3, 1966.
Date 11/20/1967
NASA Center Headquarters
NASA Administration Before t …
Title NASA Administration Before the Senate Regarding Apollo 1
Full Description Seated at the witness table before the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Services, chaired by Senator Clinton P. Anderson, on the Apollo 1 (Apollo 204) accident are (left to right): Dr. Robert C. Seamans, NASA Deputy Administrator, James E. Webb, NASA Administrator, Dr. George E. Mueller, Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, and Maj. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips, Apollo Program Director. Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died tragically inside the Apollo 1 Command Module during a preflight test. The astronauts were unable to exit the spacecraft when a fire, most likely caused by faulty wiring and exacerbated by an oxygen leak, broke out in the Command Module.
Date 05/09/1967
NASA Center Headquarters
Apollo 204 Astronauts Traini …
Title Apollo 204 Astronauts Training
Full Description Originally designated as the Apollo/Saturn 204 mission, but more commonly known as Apollo 1, this photograph shows the crew in training. On January 27, 1967, disaster fell upon the Apollo 1 mission when a sudden fire broke out in the command module during a launch pad test in which all three of the primary crew perished. Astronauts Lt. Col. Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom, Lt.Col. Edward Higgins White II, and Lt. Cdr. Roger Bruce Chaffee died quickly in the tragic accident. An investigative board was promptly set up to examine the accident and identify the cause of the fire. The final report gave the results of the investigation as well as detailed suggestions for major design and engineering modifications, revisions to test planning, manufacturing procedures, and quality control. With these adjustments, the Apollo program became safer and successfully sent astronauts to the Moon.
Date UNKNOWN
NASA Center Headquarters
Apollo 4 Launch
Title Apollo 4 Launch
Full Description On November 9, 1967, Apollo 4, the first test flight of the Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle, was launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. This was an unmanned test flight intended to prove that the complex Saturn V rocket could perform its requirements. All three stages separated successfully and their engines performed as planned. The third stage also restarted in orbit, which was a requirement for lunar missions. At the end of the flight, the unmanned Apollo spacecraft reentered and proved that it could survive the intense heat generated during a high-speed return from the moon.
Date 11/9/1967
NASA Center Marshall Space Flight Center
Apollo 4 liftoff
Title Apollo 4 liftoff
Full Description The Apollo 4 unmanned mission lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. This would be the first flight for the enormous Saturn V rocket that would eventually take humans to the Moon.
Date 11/09/1967
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Apollo desert survival train …
Title Apollo desert survival training
Full Description Three astronauts participating in Apollo desert survival training in Washington state pose with Air Force Col. Chester Bohart (second from right). Standing from left to right are Charles M. Duke, Jr., Thomas K Mattingly, Col. Bohart, and John L. Swigert. Since the Mercury Program, astronauts have taken survival courses in case they are forced to land on a remote part of the Earth where they may need to do without human help for several weeks.
Date 08/14/1967
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Apollo/Saturn 501 Vehicle Pr …
Title Apollo/Saturn 501 Vehicle Preparations
Full Description A top-to-bottom view of the 36-story-tall Apollo/Saturn 501 space vehicle in High Bay No. 1 of the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Date 5/25/1967
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Noise Research Program on Ha …
Title Noise Research Program on Hangar Apron
Full Description Noise Research Program on hangar apron at Lewis Research Center, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Noise from aircraft engines presents problems for wildlife and people and NASA has undertaken various programs to reduce aircraft engine noise.
Date 08/17/1967
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
Nuclear Rocket Engine Being …
Title Nuclear Rocket Engine Being Transported to Test Stand
Full Description The first ground experimental nuclear rocket engine (XE) assembly, (left), is shown here in "cold flow" configuration, as it makes a late evening arrival at Engine Test Stand No. 1 at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station, in Jackass Flats, Nevada. Cold flow experiments are conducted using an assembly identical to the design used in power tests except that the cold assembly does not contain any fissionable material nor produce a nuclear reaction. Therefore, no fission power is generated. The large object at the right is one-half of an aluminum cylindrical closure that can be sealed about the engine, forming an airtight compartment, thereby permitting testing in a simulated space environment. The "cold flow" experimental engine underwent a series of tests designed to verify that the initial test stand was ready for "hot" engine testing, as well as to investigate engine start-up under simulated altitude conditions, and to check operation procedures not previously demonstrated. The XECF (Experimental Engine Cold Flow) experimental nuclear rocket engine was a part of project Rover/NERVA. The main objective of Rover/NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) was to develop a flight rated thermodynamic nuclear rocket engine with 75,000 pounds of thrust. The Rover portion of the program began in 1955 when the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and the Air Force initially wanted the engine for missile applications. However, in 1958, the newly created NASA inherited the Air Force responsibilities, with an engine slated for use in advanced, long-term space missions. The NERVA portion did not originate until 1960 and the industrial team of Aerojet General Corporation and Westinghouse Electric had the responsibility to develop it. In 1960, NASA and the AEC created the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office to manage project Rover/NERVA. In the following decade, it oversaw a series of reactor tests: Kiwi-A, Kiwi-B, Phoebus, Pewee, and the Nuclear Furnace, all conducted by Los Alamos to prove concepts and test advanced ideas. Aerojet and Westinghouse tested their own series: NRX-A2 (NERVA Reactor Experiment), A3, EST (Engine System Test), A5, A6, and XE-Prime (Experimental Engine). All were tested at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at the AEC's Nevada Test Site, in Jackass Flats, Nevada, about 100 miles west of Las Vegas. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, the Nixon Administration cut NASA and NERVA funding dramatically. The cutbacks were made in response to a lack of public interest in human spaceflight, the end of the space race after the Apollo Moon landing, and the growing use of low-cost unmanned, robotic space probes. Eventually NERVA lost its funding, and the project ended in 1973.
Date 12/01/1967
NASA Center Headquarters
OMEGA (One-Man Extravehicula …
Title OMEGA (One-Man Extravehicular Gimbal Arrangement)
Full Description OMEGA (One-Man Extravehicular Gimbal Arrangement) shown here permits unlimited freedom, and was designed around a parallel pair of 32-inch-diameter thin-line angular-contact bearings with half the balls removed to minimize friction. Tests have been conducted with OMEGA subjects in flight suits and pressure suits to determine the best gimbal restraint system and operation techniques. The test subjects are suspended in a sling support from a single RDS cable. As they translate about, the RDS tracks them, keeping the cable vertical. The test subjects operate in an effectively zero-g environment in the horizontal plane.
Date 1/20/1967
NASA Center Langley Research Center
Pilot Neil Armstrong and X-1 …
Title Pilot Neil Armstrong and X-15 #1
Full Description Dryden pilot Neil Armstrong is seen here next to the X-15 ship #1 (56-6670) after a research flight. The X-15 was a rocket-powered aircraft 50 feet long with a wingspan of 22 feet. It was a missile-shaped vehicle with an unusual wedge-shaped vertical tail, thin stubby wings, and unique side fairings that extended along the side of the fuselage. The X-15 was flown over a period of nearly 10 years, from June 1959 to October 1968. It set the world's unofficial speed and altitude records. Information gained from the highly successful X-15 program contributed to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo manned spaceflight programs, and also the Space Shuttle program. The X-15s made a total of 199 flights, and were manufactured by North American Aviation. X-15-1, serial number 56-6670, is now located at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC. North American X-15A- 2, serial number 56-6671, is at the United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. X-15-3, serial number 56-6672, crashed on November 15, 1967, resulting in the death of Major Michael J. Adams.
Date 01/01/1960
NASA Center Dryden Flight Research Center
Conrad and Surveyor on the S …
Title Conrad and Surveyor on the Slope of a Crater
Full Description Charles Conrad Jr., Apollo 12 Commander, examines the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft during the second extravehicular activity (EVA-2). The Lunar Module (LM) "Intrepid" is in the right background. This picture was taken by astronaut Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot. The "Intrepid" landed on the Moon's Ocean of Storms only 600 feet from Surveyor III. The television camera and several other components were taken from Surveyor III and brought back to earth for scientific analysis. Surveyor III soft-landed on the Moon on April 19, 1967.
Date 11/20/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Dale Reed with Model in Fron …
Title Dale Reed with Model in Front of M2-F1
Full Description Engineer Dale Reed holds a model of the M2-F1 Lifting Body aircraft with the full scale version directly behind him. In support of the M2 lifting body program in the early 1960s, Dale Reed had built a number of small lifting body shapes and drop tested them from a radio controlled mothership.
Date 03/06/1967
NASA Center Dryden Flight Research Center
Saturn V First Stage Lifted …
Title Saturn V First Stage Lifted into Test Stand.
Full Description The first stage of the huge Apollo Saturn V moon rocket is lifted by crane for installation into the B-2 test stand at the Mississippi Test Facility.
Date 01/01/1967
NASA Center Stennis Space Center
Saturn V S-II hoisted onto T …
Title Saturn V S-II hoisted onto Test Stand
Full Description The S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket is hoisted onto the A-2 test stand in 1967 at the Mississippi Test Facility, now the Stennis Space Center. This was the second stage of the 364-foot-tall Moon rocket. The second stage was powered by five J-2 engines which developed one million pounds of thrust or the equivalent to 21 million horsepower.
Date 01/01/1968
NASA Center Stennis Space Center
Saturn V Stage at Michould A …
Title Saturn V Stage at Michould Assembly Facility
Full Description This image shows S-1C-8 (the first stage) of Saturn V being lowered to a horizontal position at Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF). MAF manufactured the stages of the Saturn IB and V, including the S-1C stage.
Date 1/1/1967
NASA Center Marshall Space Flight Center
Saturn V, S-II Stage is Lift …
Title Saturn V, S-II Stage is Lifted into Test Stand
Full Description The S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket is hoisted onto the A-2 test stand in 1967 at the Mississippi Test Facility, now the Stennis Space Center. This was the second stage of the 364-foot tall Moon rocket. The second stage was powered by five J-2 engines.
Date 01/01/1967
NASA Center Stennis Space Center
Static Test Firing of Saturn …
Title Static Test Firing of Saturn V S-1C Stage
Full Description Smoke and flames belch from the huge S-1C test stand as the first stage booster of the Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle is static fired at the NASA Mississippi Test Facility (MTF), currently called Stennis Space Center. The huge 138 foot-long rocket had five engines that develop 7.5 million pounds of thrust and launched the 363 foot-long Saturn V up to a height of 40 miles at a speed of 6,000 miles per hour. The first stage was built by the Boeing Company at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, under the management of Marshall Space Flight Center.
Date 1/1/1967
NASA Center Marshall Space Flight Center
First Image from Mariner 4
Title First Image from Mariner 4
Full Description A "real-time data translator" machine converted Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of paper. Too anxious to wait for the official processed image, employees from the Voyager Telecommunications Section attached these strips side by side to a display panel and hand colored the numbers like a paint-by-numbers picture. The completed image was framed and presented to JPL director, William Pickering. Mariner 4 was launched on November 28, 1964 and journeyed for 228 days to the Red Planet, providing the first close-range images of Mars. The spacecraft carried a television camera and six other science instruments to study the Martian atmosphere and surface. The 22 photographs taken by Mariner revealed the existence of lunar type craters upon a desert-like surface. After completing its mission, Mariner 4 continued past Mars to the far side of the Sun. On December 20, 1967, all operations of the spacecraft were ended.
Date UNKNOWN
NASA Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Four NASA Barges at Michoud …
Title Four NASA Barges at Michoud Assembly Facility
Full Description This image shows an aerial view of NASA Dock at Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) with four barges, (left to right) Paleamon, Promise, Poseidon, and Orion. The barges ferried Saturn IB and Saturn V stages between Marshall Space Center (MSFC), Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF), Mississippi Test Facility (MTF, currently Stennis Space Center), and Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
Date 1/1/1967
NASA Center Marshall Space Flight Center
The Apollo 12 Prime Crew
Title The Apollo 12 Prime Crew
Full Description Portrait of the prime crew of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. From left to right they are: Commander, Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. Command Module pilot, Richard F. Gordon Jr. and Lunar Module pilot, Alan L.Bean. The Apollo 12 mission was the second lunar landing mission in which the third and fourth American astronauts set foot upon the Moon. This mission was highlighted by the Lunar Module nicknamed "Intrepid" landing within a few hundred yards of a Surveyor probe which was sent to the Moon in April of 1967 on a mapping mission as a precursor to landing.
Date 09/22/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
The First Stages of Saturn I …
Title The First Stages of Saturn IB in Final Assembly
Full Description The first stages of the Saturn IB, (from left to right) S-IB-7, S- IB-9, S-IB-5 and S-IB-6, in the final assembly area of Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF).
Date 1/1/1967
NASA Center Marshall Space Flight Center
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
X-15 Mounted to B-52 Mothers …
Title X-15 Mounted to B-52 Mothership Pylon in Flight
Full Description This photo illustrates how the X-15 rocket powered aircraft was taken aloft under the wing of a B-52. Because of the large fuel consumption, the X-15 was air launched from a B-52 aircraft at 45,000 ft and a speed of about 500 mph. This photo was taken from one of the observation windows in the B-52 shortly before dropping the X-15. The X-15 was flown over a period of nearly 10 years -- June 1959 to Oct. 1968 -- and set the world's unofficial speed and altitude records of 4,520 mph (Mach 6.7) and 354,200 ft in a program to investigate all aspects of manned hypersonic flight. Information gained from the highly successful X-15 program contributed to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo manned spaceflight programs, and also the Space Shuttle program. The X-15s made a total of 199 flights, and were manufactured by North American Aviation. X-15-1, serial number 56-6670, is now located at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC. North American X-15A-2, serial number 56-6671, is at the United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The X-15-3, serial number 56-6672, crashed on November 15, 1967, resulting in the death of Major Michael J. Adams.
Date 01/01/1965
NASA Center Dryden Flight Research Center
Lunar Lander Multiple Exposu …
Title Lunar Lander Multiple Exposure
Full Description This multiple exposure shows a simulated Moon landing of the Lunar Lander trainer at Langley's Lunar Landing Research Facility.
Date 04/11/1967
NASA Center Langley Research Center
XECF
Title XECF
Full Description The first ground experimental nuclear rocket engine (XE) assembly, in a "cold flow" configuration, is shown being installed in Engine Test Stand No. 1 at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station in Jackass Flats, Nevada. Cold flow experiments are conducted using an assembly identical to the design used in power tests except that the cold assembly does not contain any fissionable material nor produce a nuclear reaction. Therefore, no fission power is generated. Functionally, the XECF (Experimental Engine Cold Flow) is similar to the breadboard nuclear engine system (NERVA Reactor Experiment/Engine System Test or NRX/EST) tested in 1966, except that the experimental engine more closely resembles flight configuration. In addition to the nozzle-reactor assembly, the XCEF has two major subassemblies: an "upper thrust module" (attached to test stand) and a "lower thrust module" containing propellant feed system components. This arrangement is used to facilitate remote removal and replacement of major subassemblies in the event of a malfunction. The cold flow experiential engine underwent a series of tests designed to verify that the initial test stand was ready for "hot" engine testing, as well as to investigate engine start up under simulated altitude conditions, and to check operating procedures not previously demonstrated. The XECF engine was part of project Rover/NERVA. The main objective of Rover/NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) was to develop a flight rated thermodynamic nuclear rocket engine with 75,000 pounds of thrust. The Rover portion of the program began in 1955 when the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and the Air Force initially wanted a nuclear engine for missile applications. However, in 1958, the newly created NASA inherited the Air Force responsibilities, with an engine slated for use in advanced, long -term space missions. The NERVA portion did not originate until 1960 and the industrial team of Aerojet General Corporation and Westinghouse Electric had the responsibility to develop it. In 1960, NASA and the AEC created the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office to manage project Rover/NERVA. In the following decade, it oversaw a series of reactor tests: Kiwi-A, Kiwi-B, Phoebus, Pewee, and the Nuclear Furnace, all conducted by Los Alamos to prove concepts and test advanced ideas. Aerojet and Westinghouse tested their own series: NRX-A2, A3, EST, A5, A6, and XE-Prime (Experimental Engine). All were tested at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at the AEC's Nevada Test Site in Jackass Flats, Nevada, about 100 miles west of Las Vegas. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, the Nixon Administration cut NASA and NERVA funding dramatically. The cutbacks were made in response to a lack of public interest in human spaceflight, the end of the space race after the Apollo Moon landing, and the growing use of low-cost unmanned, robotic space probes. Eventually NERVA lost its funding, and the project, ended in 1973.
Date 12/01/1967
NASA Center Headquarters
Zero G
Title Zero G
Full Description Zero-g payload building at the Space Experiments Laboratory at the Lewis Research Center, now known as John H. Glenn Research Center
Date 08/02/1967
NASA Center Glenn Research Center
A-38151
N-202 Mail Library
1/16/67
Description N-202 Mail Library
Date 1/16/67
A-38820-1
Australian tektites
4/19/67
Description Australian tektites
Date 4/19/67
A-38907
Woody Cook standing by X-14
5/5/67
Description Woody Cook standing by X-14
Date 5/5/67
A-38908
Woody Cook standing by X-14
5/5/67
Description Woody Cook standing by X-14
Date 5/5/67
AC-38286-1
Aerial Survey of Ames Resear …
2/6/67
Description Aerial Survey of Ames Research Center (Used in NASA/AMES publication "Adventures in Research" A history of Ames Research Center 1940 - 1965 by Edwin P. Hartman - SP-4302)
Date 2/6/67
AC-38286-2
Aerial Survey of Ames Resear …
2/6/67
Description Aerial Survey of Ames Research Center centered on the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel Complex and High Speed Aerodynamic Facilities (used in Bicentennial)
Date 2/6/67
AC-40049
Artwork Pioneer C launch dat …
12/4/67
Description Artwork Pioneer C launch data: positions of Pioneer C, 6 & 7
Date 12/4/67
M2-F3 with test pilot John A …
Photo Description NASA research pilot John A. Manke is seen here in front of the M2-F3 Lifting Body. Manke was hired by NASA on May 25, 1962, as a flight research engineer. He was later assigned to the pilot's office and flew various support aircraft including the F-104, F5D, F-111 and C-47. After leaving the Marine Corps in 1960, Manke worked for Honeywell Corporation as a test engineer for two years before coming to NASA. He was project pilot on the X-24B and also flew the HL-10, M2-F3, and X-24A lifting bodies. John made the first supersonic flight of a lifting body and the first landing of a lifting body on a hard surface runway. Manke served as Director of the Flight Operations and Support Directorate at the Dryden Flight Research Center prior to its integration with Ames Research Center in October 1981. After this date John was named to head the joint Ames-Dryden Directorate of Flight Operations. He also served as site manager of the NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility. John is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. He retired on April 27, 1984.
Project Description A fleet of lifting bodies flown at the NASA Flight Research Center (FRC--later the Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, from 1963 to 1975 demonstrated the ability of pilots to maneuver and safely land a wingless vehicle designed to fly back to Earth from space and be landed like an aircraft at a pre-determined site. Aerodynamic lift--essential to flight in the atmosphere--was obtained from the shape of their bodies. The addition of fins and control surfaces allowed the pilots to stabilize and control the vehicles and regulate their flight paths. The information the lifting body program generated contributed to the data base that led to development of today's space shuttle program. The success of the FRC's M2-F1 [ http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/M2-F1/index.html ] program led to NASA's development and construction of two heavyweight lifting bodies based on studies at NASA's Ames and Langley research centers--the M2-F2 and the HL-10, both built by the Northrop Corporation. The "M" refers to "manned" and "F" refers to "flight" version. "HL" comes from "horizontal landing" and 10 is for the tenth lifting body model to be investigated by Langley. The first flight of the M2-F2--which looked much like the "F1"--was on July 12, 1966. Milt Thompson was the pilot. By then, the same B-52s used to air launch the famed X-15 rocket research aircraft were modified to also carry the lifting bodies. Thompson was dropped from the B-52's wing pylon mount at an altitude of 45,000 feet on that maiden glide flight. The M2-F2 weighed 4,620 pounds, was 22 feet long, and had a width of about 10 feet. On May 10, 1967, during the sixteenth glide flight leading up to powered flight, a landing accident severely damaged the vehicle and seriously injured the NASA pilot, Bruce Peterson. NASA pilots and researchers realized the M2-F2 had lateral control problems, even though it had a stability augmentation (control) system. When the M2-F2 was rebuilt by the Northrop Corporation with the help and cooperation of the FRC and redesignated the M2-F3 [ http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/M2-F3/index.html ], it was modified with an additional third vertical fin--centered between the tip fins--to improve control characteristics. The M2-F2/F3 was the first of the heavy-weight, entry-configuration (i.e., configured for re-entry to the atmosphere from space) lifting bodies. Its successful development as a research test vehicle answered many of the generic questions about these vehicles. NASA donated the M2-F3 vehicle to the Smithsonian Institute in December 1973. It is currently hanging in the Air and Space Museum along with the X-15 aircraft number 1, which was its hangar partner at Dryden from 1965 to 1969.
Photo Date December 20, 1972
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