Media Group: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER

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Seamans, von Braun and Presi …
Title Seamans, von Braun and President Kennedy at Cape Canaveral
Full Description Dr. Wernher von Braun explains the Saturn Launch System to President John F. Kennedy. NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seamans is to the left of von Braun.
Date 11/16/1963
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
President Kennedy Tours Mars …
Title President Kennedy Tours Marshall with von Braun
Full Description President John F. Kennedy visited Marshall Space Flight Center on September 11, 1962. Here President Kennedy and Dr. Wernher von Braun, MSFC Director, tour one of the laboratories.
Date 9/11/1962
NASA Center Marshall Space Flight Center
Recovery of Gemini V Booster
Title Recovery of Gemini V Booster
Full Description Recovery of part of the first stage of NASA?s Gemini V Booster, the first to ever be retrieved from space was made by the U.S.S. Dupont. The booster was used to launch the Gemini V Spacecraft from Cape Kennedy, Florida, and re-entered the earth's atmosphere 450 miles N.E. of Cape Kennedy.
Date 08/21/1965
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
JFK Tour of KSC
Title JFK Tour of KSC
Full Description A briefing is given by Major Rocco Petrone to President John F. Kennedy during a tour of Blockhouse 34 at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex.
Date 9/11/1962
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Ca …
Title Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera
Full Description George Carruthers, center, principal investigator for the Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera, discusses the instrument with Apollo 16 Commander John Young, right. Carruthers is employed by the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C. From left are Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Rocco Petrone, Apollo Program Director. This photograph was taken during an Apollo lunar surface experiments review in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at the Kennedy Space Center.
Date 11/12/1971
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Gemini 11 maintenance
Title Gemini 11 maintenance
Full Description The Gemini 11 spacecraft is lowered onto a dolly for preflight maintenance before stacking on the Titan rocket at the Kennedy Space Center. Dick Gordon and Pete Conrad would liftoff in this spacecraft on September 12, 1966 for a mission lasting almost three days. The crew practiced docking with the Agena unmanned docking craft, and Gordon also performed two spacewalks during the mission.
Date 07/21/1966
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gemini with Agena on Earth
Title Gemini with Agena on Earth
Full Description Gemini 6 spacecraft (right) and Agena Target Vehicle (left) on the Boresight Range Tower for at the Kennedy Space Center to test the two spacecrafts? docking capability. Agena was designed to launch separately from Gemini and act as a target for astronauts in a Gemini spacecraft to rendezvous with. Gemini 6 was slated to be the first mission to dock with Agena, but a malfunction with the unmanned target resulted in new objectives for Gemini 6 calling for a one day rendezvous with Gemini 7 in December, 1965.
Date 1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
View of Apollo Spacecraft 10 …
Title View of Apollo Spacecraft 107 Command and Service Modules at KSC
Description Interior view of the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building showing Apollo Spacecraft 107 Command and Service Modules being moved from workstand 134 for mating to Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA) 14. Spacecraft 107 is scheduled to be flown on the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-04-11
Lunar Module 5 mated with Sp …
Title Lunar Module 5 mated with Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA)
Description Interior view of the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building showing Lunar Module 5 mated to its Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA). LM-5 is scheduled to be flown on the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-06-04
Mercury 3 Flight Simulation
Title Mercury 3 Flight Simulation
Full Description Alan Shepard, one of the three prime astronauts, is being inserted into a Mercury capsule. A flight simulation test with a full countdown is programmed for Shepard to check out hardware and launch personnel activities in the Redstone launch.
Date 4/29/1961
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Mercury Redstone 3 Prelaunch …
Title Mercury Redstone 3 Prelaunch Activities
Full Description Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) Prelaunch Activities on the Mercury 5 launch pad.
Date 4/21/1961
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Mercury-Atlas Rocket on the …
Title Mercury-Atlas Rocket on the Launch Pad
Full Description Pre-launch test of the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA9) on Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Date 5/14/1963
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Aerial View of Missile Row
Title Aerial View of Missile Row
Full Description Overall aerial view of Missile Row, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The view is looking north, with the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) under construction, in the upper left hand corner.
Date 11/13/1964
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Aerial View of Launch Comple …
Title Aerial View of Launch Complex 14
Full Description Aerial view of Launch Complex 14 with Missile Row visible to the right. Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9), visible on Pad 14, is scheduled to carry astronaut Gordon Cooper for the fourth manned orbital mission.
Date 5/7/1963
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Apollo 103/Saturn 503 Mate
Title Apollo 103/Saturn 503 Mate
Full Description The 103 Apollo Command/Service Module is shown being mated to the Instrument Unit atop the three-stage Apollo/Saturn 503 Launch Vehicle inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB).
Date 10/7/1968
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Apollo Saturn V Test Vehicle
Title Apollo Saturn V Test Vehicle
Full Description An aerial view of the Apollo Saturn V Facilities Test vehicle rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and heading to Launch Complex 39A. This test vehicle, designated the Apollo Saturn 500F, will never make the journey to the moon. However, it is being used to verify launch facilities, train launch crews, and develop test and checkout procedures.
Date 6/17/1966
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Astronaut Escape Testing
Title Astronaut Escape Testing
Full Description Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) flight configuration with cherry picker, on one of many tests conducted to evaluate astronaut escape feasibility.
Date 4/29/1961
NASA Center Kennedy 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
Apollo Saturn V Test Vehicle
Title Apollo Saturn V Test Vehicle
Full Description The Apollo Saturn V 500F Facilities Test vehicle, after conducting the VAB stacking operations, rolls out of the VAB on its way to Pad 39A to perform crawler, Launch Umbilical Tower, and pad operations.
Date 5/25/1966
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Cooper
Title Cooper
Full Description Launch of Mercury Atlas 9 rocket with astronaut Gordon Cooper onboard from Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Date 5/15/1963
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Cooper Departs Transfer Van
Title Cooper Departs Transfer Van
Full Description Astronaut Gordon Cooper departing the Transfer Van in his silver pressure suit and helmet, is greeted with applause from the assembled Pad 14 employees. When he arrives at the base of the service tower, he'll ride an elevator up to where his Mercury spacecraft nicknamed, "Faith 7" awaits his arrival.
Date 5/15/1963
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Firing Room #2 During Apollo …
Title Firing Room #2 During Apollo 12 CDDT
Full Description Overall view of the Firing Room #2 in the Launch Control Center during the Countdown Demonstration Test for the Apollo 12 mission.
Date 10/29/1969
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Ham Checks Out Equipment
Title Ham Checks Out Equipment
Full Description Chimpanzee Ham and technician go over equipment in preparation for launch.
Date 1/23/1961
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Ham Retreival
Title Ham Retreival
Full Description The famous "hand shake" welcome. Chimpanzee Ham is greeted by recovery ship Commander after his flight on the Mercury Redstone rocket.
Date 1/31/1961
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Ham Tries Out His Life Suppo …
Title Ham Tries Out His Life Support System
Full Description Ham tries out his combination couch and life support system in preparation for his flight in Mercury Redstone-2 (MR-2). The couch is plugged into the circuit that normally would supply the astronaut's full pressure suit. The MR-2 flight was one in a series of flights that led to the manned orbital flights of NASA's Project Mercury program.
Date 01/28/1961
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Apollo 16 Astronauts Inspect …
Title Apollo 16 Astronauts Inspect Lunar Rover
Full Description Apollo 16 Commander, John Young, center, and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke, foreground, inspect the Lunar Roving Vehicle they will use for transportation on the Moon during a Deployment Test in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at the Kennedy Space Center. The Rover is stored in the Ascent Stage of the Lunar Module for the trip to the Lunar surface. This inspection came during a review of Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments at the Spaceport. Launch is set for March 17.
Date 11/12/1971
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Apollo 17 Flight Hardware Ch …
Title Apollo 17 Flight Hardware Checkout
Full Description The Kennedy Space Center launch team is continuing the checkout of Apollo 17 flight hardware for the final lunar exploration mission of Project Apollo. A mission simulation to check out the lunar roving vehicle and all its systems was successfully carried out. Participating in the test, conducted in conjunction with the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, were prime crew members Harrison H. Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot, left, and Eugene A. Cernan, Commander. Rollout of the Apollo 17 space vehicle to Complex 39's Pad A is scheduled for August 28. The lunar module which will carry Cernan and Schmitt down to the lunar surface is visible in the background.
Date 8/9/1972
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Apollo 17 Astronaut Training
Title Apollo 17 Astronaut Training
Full Description Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison H. Jack Schmitt are preparing the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and the Communications Relay Unit (LCRU) mission simulation. Support Team Astronaut Gordon Fullerton, standing, left, discusses test procedures to be performed in the High Bay of the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB). The Lunar Module Ascent and Descent stages also receive preflight checkout in preparation for the sixth U.S. manned lunar landing mission.
Date 8/9/1972
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Apollo 13 EVA Walk-Through
Title Apollo 13 EVA Walk-Through
Full Description The two members of the Apollo 13 crew who will land on the Moon's Fra Mauro region in the lunar module this spring underwent a walk-through of the extravehicular activity timeline here today. Fred W. haise, Jr., Lunar Module Pilot, tries out a motorized core sampler, right, while James A. Lovell, Jr., the Apollo 13 Commander, looks on at left.
Date 1/28/1970
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Communication Technology Sat …
Title Communication Technology Satellite
Full Description The Communication Technology Satellite was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 17, 1976 and operated until October 1979. This high-powered spacecraft was the result of a five- year effort of international cooperation between NASA and Canada's Department of Communications. Canada designed and built the spacecraft and NASA tested, launched, and operated the CTS. The Canadians later renamed the spacecraft after the mythical Greek messenger god, Hermes. The transmitter improved 10-20 times the broadcast power of typical communication satellites of the era. With more power transmitted by the satellite, it was possible to use smaller and cheaper ground stations thus paving the way for applications such as direct broadcast television. The CTS is the second satellite designed to transmit high-quality color television. The first was the Application Technology Satellite (ATS), which was launched December 17, 1966.
Date 12/16/75
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Gemini 3 capsule is mated wi …
Title Gemini 3 capsule is mated with Titan.
Full Description The Gemini 3 spacecraft is mated with the Titan II launch vehicle in the white room of Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center. Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom and John Young rode the capsule into space on March 23, 1965 for a mission lasting almost five hours. The pair of astronauts tested out the spacecraft on the first manned Gemini flight.
Date 02/1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gemini IV Astronauts Await L …
Title Gemini IV Astronauts Await Liftoff
Full Description Astronauts James A. McDivitt, command pilot (left) and Edward H. White II, pilot, are shown a few minutes after insertion in NASA's Gemini IV spacecraft about 7:15 am EST the morning of June 3, 1965, at Launch Complex 19. After a 1 hour and 16-minute delay, because of difficulties in lowering the launch vehicle erector, the spacecraft was launched at 10:16 am EST. A cover over White's gold visor helps to prevent possible scratching before hatch closing. The gold visor protected White from the Sun's rays during his EVA, the first ever performed by American Astronauts.
Date 06/03/1965
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Unloading Atlas Launch Vehic …
Title Unloading Atlas Launch Vehicle
Full Description The Atlas launch vehicle is shown being unloaded at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This vehicle was expected to launch a Mercury spacecraft (without any astronauts aboard), built by McDonnell Aircraft Corp., into orbit. The Atlas attempted to place the Mercury spacecraft into its first orbital flight. The spacecraft was supposed to be launched in an orbital flight path and reentry was to be initiated about 90 minutes later as the craft neared the end of the first orbit. Unfortunately, this Atlas exploded at launch. Atlas was designed to launch payloads into low Earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. NASA first launched Atlas as a space launch vehicle in 1958. Project SCORE, the first communications satellite that transmitted President Eisenhower's pre-recorded Christmas speech around the world, was launched on an Atlas. For all three robotic lunar exploration programs, Atlas was used. Atlas/ Centaur vehicles launched both Mariner and Pioneer planetary probes. The current operational Atlas II family has a 100% mission success rating. For more information about Atlas, please see Chapter 2 in Roger Launius and Dennis Jenkins' book To Reach the High Frontier published by The University Press of Kentucky in 2002.
Date 04/23/1961
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
John Glenn With T.J. O'Malle …
Title John Glenn With T.J. O'Malley and Paul Donnelly in Front of
Full Description Grouped together with astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., beside "Friendship 7" spacecraft are left to right: T.J. O'Malley, chief test conductor for General Dynamics, Glenn, and Paul Donnelly.
Date 01/24/1962
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
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