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NASA INFO: Cape Canaveral, February 23, 1962, President John F. Kennedy stands next to John H. Glenn after presentation of the NASA Distinguished Service Award Medal in ceremonies held in front of Hanger S. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 62-MA6-172A (MA6-23), US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976 www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Some 49 years and five days ago Apollo 8, became first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit. ...Frank F. Borman, II
James A. Lovell, Jr. and William A. Anders onboard.
NASA INFO: Mercury- Redstone 4 (MR-4) launched July 21, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Fifteen minute manned sub-orbital flight by astronaut Virgil I. Grissom. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, M-4-16, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976 www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
Vintage 1968 (no month) issue of The Astronaut Trail Magazine published by the Kennedy Space Center. The cover features the astronauts of Apollo 10. A nice look back at the Race for Space. It’s always a thrill when it’s from Vinnie DeVille!
This is a replica of the crew portion of a Gemini capsule. The Gemini program was meant to test each component of what would be required to walk on the moon. Could we walk in space? Could we rendezvous two spacecraft launched separately? And, importantly, could humans survive up to two weeks in space?
On Gemini 7, astronauts Jim Lovell and Frank Borman spent nearly two weeks orbiting the Earth in a capsule of this size. There were no spacewalks on this mission, though in addition to their endurance test, they rendezvoused with Gemini 6A late in the mission.
Frank Borman and Jim Lovell later flew together on Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the moon, and which gave us the world-famous "Earthrise" photograph.
Local call number: V-95 DA044; S. 828
Title: [Fifteen Years with 4-WTVJ]
Date of film: 1964
Physical descrip: color; sound; Original film length: 29:25.
General note: Host Ralph Rennick shows footage and stories that Miami TV station WTVJ collected in its first 15 years on the air. Mitchell Wolfson, co-host, founded the station, as well as Wometco Enterprises. There are scenes of the 1951 Orange Bowl Parade, the 1951 Senate Crime Hearings in Dade County on gambling, the 1954 LeRoy Collins - Charlie Johns debate, the 1957 Cape Canaveral Satellite launching, the death of an Italian boat racer at the Orange Bowl Regatta, Castro's arrival in Havana after taking power, Hurricane Donna in 1961, Orange Bowl football, return of soldiers from the Bay of Pigs, and President John F. Kennedy's visit to Miami in 1963.
Series title: Florida Promotional Films, 1948-1978
To see full-length versions of this and other videos from the State Archives of Florida, visit www.floridamemory.com/video/.
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850-245-6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us
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The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium launch vehicle at Space Launch Complex 37B (SLC-37B) ready to launch the GPS IIF-2 spacecraft on July 16, 2011 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
That's how much thrust was required to break away from earth's gravity and head to the moon. Stage I of the Saturn V.
The astronauts who have signed the page are Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton. Gus Grissom, who was also a Mercury astronaut, died tragically in the Apollo I Command Module on January 27, 1967 when it caught fire during a pre-launch test on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy.
The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven or Astronaut Group 1. They piloted the manned spaceflights of the Mercury program from May 1961 to May 1963. Alan Shepard was the second person and the first American to travel into space. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first person to travel into space.
The story of the macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program of the Mercury astronauts and the equally fearless approach of test pilot Chuck Yeager was the basis of a book by Tom Wolfe (1979) and a movie by Philip Kaufman (1983). Both are titled “The Right Stuff.” Here is a link to the movie trailer:
Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell, and Fred Haise (at left, behind blurred figure of a frogman) bob safely in a life raft. Lovell, an inveterate naval officer, was the last of the three astronauts to leave the spacecraft.
In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise on America’s fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck. A mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Commander Lovell and his crew watched in alarm as the cockpit grew darker, the air grew thinner, and the instruments winked out one by one.
In “Lost Moon,” Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger tell the full story of the moon shot that almost ended in catastrophe. What begins as a smooth flight is transformed into a hair-raising voyage from the moment Lovell calls out, “Houston, we’ve got a problem.” Minutes after the explosion, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days. But there are three men aboard, and they are four days from home.
As the hours tick away, engineers on Earth search desperately for solutions. The entire nation watches as one crisis after another is met and overcome. By the time the ship splashes down in the Pacific, we understand why the effort to rescue Lovell and his crew is considered by many to be NASA’s finest hour. “Lost Moon” was the basis for the 1995 movie “Apollo 13” directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris.
Saturn V first stage (S-IC) built for the Apollo 19 mission, which was cancelled. This massive relic of the Apollo program is now on display at the Infinity Science Center.
See:
www.visitinfinity.com/apollo-19-booster/
Infinity Science Center
Hancock County, Mississippi.
Infinity Science Center:
Stennis Space Center:
In this second of three works by the late NASA artist Atilla Hejja, after witnessing a night Space Shuttle launch, the artist reflects the spectacle with his brush. In this dramatic and visionary painting entitled "Lightship", he commemorates the triumph of the US Space Program. The original painting is on display in the Visitor’s Center, Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Local call number: c038456
Title: Mace Missile launch at USAF Missile Test Center: Tampa, Florida
Date: September 21, 1960
Accompanying Note: "The Mace is a U.S. Air Force Missile with a range of 1,200 miles. It is 44 feet long, 54 inches in diameter and has a wing span of 22 feet. It is a tactical weapon."
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
Series Title: Department of Commerce Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/58049
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In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Once a symbol of the power of the Soviet Union, this Old Soyuz rocket now stands quietly in the Moscow suburb, as a reminder of a glorious age that has long passed into history.
“The Lunar Module “Eagle”, carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, returns to the command module “Columbia” following historic landing and walk on the lunar surface. The lunar surface is behind the “Eagle.” At lower right can be seen The Earth rising above the lunar horizon. Black area at bottom of photo is window of “Columbia.” Photo made on automatic 16mm movie camera mounted in window of “Columbia.””
The photograph is reversed left-to-right.
Mercury Atlas (MA-1), Static firing test. NASA INFO: Payload:
Spacecraft number 4, Launch Vehicle 50-D
Mission Objective:
Qualify spacecraft and Atlas combination. The specific test ojectives were:
Recover the capsule
Determine the structral integrity of the Mercury capsule structure and afterbody shingles under the maximum heating conditions which could be encountered from an orbital launch
Determine Mercury capsule afterbody heading rates during reentry (for this purpose 51 thermocouples were installed)
Determine the flight dynamic characteristics of the Mercury capsule during reentry
Determine the adequacy of the Mercury capsule recovery systems
Familiarize Project Mercury personnel with launch and recovery operations
Orbit:
Altitude: 8.1 statute miles
Orbits: 0
Duration: 0 Days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
Distance: 6 statute miles
Max Velocity: 1,701 miles per hour
Launch: July 29, 1960. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, MA1-2, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured these images in Pretoria using an old HP flatbed scanner.
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
The "Pilgrim" rover mining trailer is equipped with a state-of-the-art drilling system that allows reaching depths of up to 100 meters, and is able to extract soil core samples with special tools. It has a mobile refillable cartridge containing the drill rigs pushed deep by a mechanical hammer at the top of the apparatus. The speed of descent and perforation can be varied according to need. The system is completely independent and manoeuvrable from the safety of the rover.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
KSC INFO: Skylab 2 astronauts, 1-r, Charles Conrad, jr., mission commander, Dr. Joseph F. Kerwin, science pilot; and Paul Weitz, pilot, pause in front of the Saturn 1b space vehicle that will launch them to Earth orbit, where they will rendezvous and dock with Skylab, America's first space station. They are scheduled to be launched from launch Complex 39b at 1:00 p.m. EDT, may 15, a day after Skylab is launched from adjacent Pad 39a. FOR RELEASE: Filed: May 15, 1973. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 73-HC-301, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: Skylab News Center, May 15, 1973.
A quick tablescrap moc. A nighttime rocket launch is depicted using a Light Brick inside to illuminate the exhaust trail. My tiny tribute to the Space Shuttle's final missions, and humanity's quest to explore space.
Space Shuttle Discovery embarked on the STS-119 mission on March 15, 2009. During this mission, Discovery played a crucial role in delivering and assembling components for the International Space Station (ISS). Specifically, it installed the fourth starboard integrated truss segment (S6) and the fourth set of solar arrays and batteries to enhance the station’s power capabilities. The mission lasted 12 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes, and 33 seconds, with a successful landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 28, 2009.
The STS-119 crew consisted of Lee Archambault (Commander), Tony Antonelli (Pilot), Richard Arnold (Mission Specialist), Joseph Acaba (Mission Specialist), John Phillips (Mission Specialist), Steve Swanson (Mission Specialist), Koichi Wakata (Mission Specialist, embarking to the ISS), and Sandra Magnus (Flight Engineer, returning from the ISS).
STS-119 Launch Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPvaEtiXd5g
Local call number: C676314
Title: Control room in the Kennedy Space Center Museum: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Date: August 1970
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 3 x 3 in.
Series Title: Department of Commerce Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/85701
Local call number: PR10256
Title: Liftoff of the Space Shuttle Columbia: John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida
Date: April 12, 1981
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: Print Collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/8698
As seen from my backyard in Ellenton, Florida --which is exactly 137.24 miles from Pad 39-A-- a view of Space Shuttle Discovery taking off with a crew of 7.
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NASA INFO: Cape Canaveral, Pad 14. Launch of Mercury Capsule with Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper. WIKIPEDIA INFO CUT: Cooper was launched into space on May 15, 1963, aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) spacecraft, the last Mercury mission. He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined—34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds—traveling 546,167 miles (878,971 km) at 17,547 mph (28,239 km/h), pulling a maximum of 7.6 g (74.48 m/s²). Cooper achieved an altitude of 165.9 statute miles (267 km) at apogee. He was the first American astronaut to sleep not only in orbit but on the launch pad during a countdown.[1]
"Spam in a can"[edit]
Like all Mercury flights, Faith 7 was designed for fully automatic control, a controversial engineering decision which in many ways reduced the role of an astronaut to that of a passenger, and prompted Chuck Yeager to describe Mercury astronauts as "Spam in a can".
Toward the end of the Faith 7 flight there were mission-threatening technical problems. During the 19th orbit, the capsule had a power failure. Carbon dioxide levels began rising, and the cabin temperature jumped to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38°C). Cooper fell back on his understanding of star patterns, took manual control of the tiny capsule and successfully estimated the correct pitch for re-entry into the atmosphere. Some precision was needed in the calculation, since if the capsule came in too steep, g-forces would be too large, and if its trajectory were too shallow, it would shoot out of the atmosphere again, back into space. Cooper drew lines on the capsule window to help him check his orientation before firing the re-entry rockets. "So I used my wrist watch for time," he later recalled, "my eyeballs out the window for attitude. Then I fired my retrorockets at the right time and landed right by the carrier."[5][6] Cooper's cool-headed performance and piloting skills led to a basic rethinking of design philosophy for later space missions. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, MA-9-77, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
I went up to Titusville today to watch the shuttle launch. This was the first time I was able to go up and watch from this close and it was definitely an amazing experience!
They are retiring the shuttle Discovery and this was the last time it will ever launch so it was awesome to be able to witness history!
Deutsche Post (DDR)
- Interkosmosprogramm
> Satellit Meteor mit Infrarot-Fourier-Spektrometer (Kosmische Meteorologie)
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefmarken-Jahrgang_1978_der_Deuts...
Pictures I took of the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran OK-GLI Test Vehicle. This vehicle flew to test the flight and handling characteristics of the Soviet Shuttle design within the Earth's atmosphere. It made a total of 25 flights. Also are pictures of the BOR-5, an early small Soviet test vehicle to test thermal protection systems on the planned Shuttle.
WIKIPEDIA INFO: Mercury-Atlas 4 was an unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on September 13, 1961 at 14:09 UTC from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A Crewman Simulator instrument package was aboard. The craft orbited the Earth once. This is 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, MA-4-10, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: NASA HEADQUATERS, Washington D.C., July 5, 1976. www.youtube.com/user/MrDanBeaumont?feature=watch
KSC INFO: A modified Saturn 5 rocket, topped by the Skylab space station, lifted off at 1:30 p.m.EDT May 14, 1973, from the Kennedy Space Center's Complex 39a. Launched into Earth orbit, it will be visited by three astronaut crews during an eight-month period. For release: Filed: May 14, 1973. 4X5 TRANSPARENCY NASA PHOTO, 108-KSC-73PC-239, 73HC-439, US GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont , ACQUISITION: Skylab News Center, May 15, 1973.
In 1964 my late father, Beaudry Glen Pautz, accepted a job as Press Officer for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It was the start of the Cold War "space race", the CSIR collaborated with the Americans and Beau received a lot of space programme material and press kits from NASA. I still have most of those historic documents in my collection. Here's a selection of them.
I captured this particular image in low light, using a phone camera, so please excuse the quality!
Also see this great piece on Time Magazine's special issue entitled "To the Moon and Back" published two weeks after the Apollo 11 landing. Back in 1969 I created a great scrapbook of the landing that I still treasure to this day.
#apollo #nasa #presskit #nasapresskit #apollopresskit #space #spaceprogram #spaceprogramme #moon #lunarlandings #1969 #news #press #document #projectplan #missionplan #lunarlanding #pretoria #transvaal #southafrica #csir #moonmission #spacerace #coldwar #factsheets #2016
Kennedy Space Center: This is the pad 39a and the last Saturn 5 rocket with Skylab 1 space laboratory, which will take off tomorrow afternoon. I was 17, and I was extremely lucky, that NASA gives me access to all the facilities and the proximity of events. I was the youngest in the members of the accredited press.
Local call number: C028012
Title: Atlas Missile launch: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Date: 1958
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 10 x 8 in.
Series Title: Department of Commerce Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/75592
Local call number: PR10259
Title: Columbia space shuttle landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California
Date: April 14, 1981
Accompanying Note: "Touchdown after a successful 54 1/2 hour mission in space by Columbia and her crew: Astronauts John Young, commander; and Robert Crippen, pilot; land on Runway 23 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. This was the first launching of the space shuttle."
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 3 x 5 in.
Series Title: Print Collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/8701