The Texas Collection, Baylor University
“Rocketdyne Engines to See Finest Hour During Apollo 11 Mission"
Rockets with roots in Central Texas: In Rocketdyne’s company newsletter, Skywriter, they announced “Rocketdyne Engines to See Finest Hour During Apollo 11 mission…” The company stated that the July 20, 1969, moon landing “will be a triumphant climax to 10 years of hard work by Rocketdyne employees.” These 10 years included work done in central Texas, in the city of McGregor’s Rocketdyne Facility that had opened for operations under this name in 1959.
Rocketdyne was part of North American Aviation, Inc., Solid Rocket Division, McGregor, Texas. By the late 1960's, the company had produced 250,000 rockets and this included some used by NASA for the 1969 Apollo Mission to the moon. Some of the land and facilities would later become Hercules and now it is home to SpaceX.
"Rocketdyne Skywriter-July 11, 1969," Lloyd Gholson Rocketdyne collection, The Texas Collection, Baylor UniversityDigital ID: tx-phoarch-rocketdyne_2935-pubs-0285.1.jpg. Rights: Some rights reserved. E-mail txcoll@baylor.edu for information about the use of our images. Visit www.baylor.edu/lib/texas/ for more information about our collections.
“Rocketdyne Engines to See Finest Hour During Apollo 11 Mission"
Rockets with roots in Central Texas: In Rocketdyne’s company newsletter, Skywriter, they announced “Rocketdyne Engines to See Finest Hour During Apollo 11 mission…” The company stated that the July 20, 1969, moon landing “will be a triumphant climax to 10 years of hard work by Rocketdyne employees.” These 10 years included work done in central Texas, in the city of McGregor’s Rocketdyne Facility that had opened for operations under this name in 1959.
Rocketdyne was part of North American Aviation, Inc., Solid Rocket Division, McGregor, Texas. By the late 1960's, the company had produced 250,000 rockets and this included some used by NASA for the 1969 Apollo Mission to the moon. Some of the land and facilities would later become Hercules and now it is home to SpaceX.
"Rocketdyne Skywriter-July 11, 1969," Lloyd Gholson Rocketdyne collection, The Texas Collection, Baylor UniversityDigital ID: tx-phoarch-rocketdyne_2935-pubs-0285.1.jpg. Rights: Some rights reserved. E-mail txcoll@baylor.edu for information about the use of our images. Visit www.baylor.edu/lib/texas/ for more information about our collections.