Historic Space Program Meetings

Archives from early space programs showing meetings, discussions, and training sessions related to missile systems and astronaut missions.

1969 - At a post-flight Apollo 11 press conference, Neil Armstrong talks about seeing Earth from outer space.
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The primary payload for Space Shuttle Mission STS-42, launched January 22, 1992, was the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (IML-1), a pressurized manned Spacelab module. The goal of IML-1 was to explore in depth the complex effects of weightlessness of living organisms and materials processing. Around-the-clock research was performed on the human nervous system's adaptation to low gravity and effects of microgravity on other life forms such as shrimp eggs, lentil seedlings, fruit fly eggs, and bacteria. Materials processing experiments were also conducted, including crystal growth from a variety of substances such as enzymes, mercury iodide, and a virus. The Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) Spacelab Payload Operations Control Center (SL POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was the air/ground communication channel used between the astronauts and ground control teams during the Spacelab missions. Featured are activities of the Organic Crystal Growth Facility
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GROUP PHOTO OF OBSERVATORY RESEARCH STAFF IN THE HALE LIBRARY.
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The Synthetic Production of Penicillin during the Second World War One of the scientists involved in the search for a method of producing penicillin synthetically, Dr Wilson Baker, of the Dyson-Perrins laboratory in Oxford.
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Dr. John A. Simpson and Dr James Van Allen discuss Pioneer 11 Mission to Juiter and Saturn during morning briefing.
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1960S African American Man Holding Test Tube
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President George Bush receives a placque commemorating the quincentenary of Columbus' voyage to the new world and exploration from Marshall's sixth Center Director Thomas J. Lee (1989-1994) during an address to Marshall employees. The three replicas of Columbus' ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria sailed by the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center while STS-52 Columbia awaited launch on the anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the New World.
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oil protrait of Dr. Baruch Blumberg, Director of Ames Astrobiology by artist Elizabeth Zanzinger
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Dr. E. J. Smith (L) Dr. James Van Allen (R) during press conference for Pioneer 11 Jupiter encounter
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Amateur astronomers using a telescope at Griffith Park Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
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1960s 1970s DEMONSTRATIVE WOMAN TV FORECASTER GIVING WEATHER REPORT POINTING TO MAP LOOKING AT CAMERA
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