Historical Scientific Meetings

Black and white photos depicting scientists and researchers at historical lab meetings and demonstrations, showcasing the collaboration in scientific advancements.

Dr. Eberhard Rees surrounded by other rocket scientist in the blockhouse, a safe viewing area for rocket tests or launches, during a missile launch. Dr. Rees, Marshall's second Center Director (1970-1973), kept most of Von Braun's plans alive but also succeeded in bringing the Saturn program to forebearance.

This updated photograph shows Dr. von Braun conducting a tour briefing for a group of visitors to the Marshall Space Flight Center. The photograph was probably taken in the early 1960s.

Anefo photo collection. Minister of Education Art and Science Cals has officially opened the new zoolological and genetic laboratory of the University of the University. Left: Minister Cals. Middle: Prof. dr. Dr. D.J. Kuenen. Professor director. Right: Dr. K.Bakker, ocologist. January 14, 1963. Leiden, South Holland

Dr. Eberhard Rees surrounded by other rocket scientist in the blockhouse, a safe viewing area for rocket tests or launches, during a missile launch. Dr. Rees, Marshall's second Center Director (1970-1973), kept most of Von Braun's plans alive but also succeeded in bringing the Saturn program to forebearance.

Anefo photo collection. ZKH Prince Claus opened the new Research Laboratory of Unilever in Vlaardingen. April 1, 1969

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. -- Photojournalists crowd in as astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., left, talks to President John F. Kennedy about a console in the Mercury Control Center at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex in Florida.

St. Paul Minnesota high school student, Roger Johnston (center), Gene Vacca (left) of NASA Headquarters, and Ann Whitaker of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) discuss the equipment to be used for the students experiment, “Capillary Action Studies in a State of Free Fall”, to be performed aboard the Skylab the following year. Johnston was among 25 winners of a contest in which some 3,500 high school students proposed experiments for the following years Skylab mission. The nationwide scientific competition was sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

From the right, NASA administrator, Dr. Thomas O. Paine talks with U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew while awaiting the launch of Saturn V (AS-506) that carried the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the Moon for mans historic first landing on the lunar surface. At center is astronaut William Anders, a member of the first crew to orbit the moon during the Apollo 8 mission. At left is Lee B. James, director of Program Management at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) where the Saturn V was developed. The craft lifted off from launch pad 39 at Kennedy Space Flight Center (KSC) on July 16, 1969. The moon bound crew included astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module (CM) pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module (M) pilot. The mission finalized with splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished.

Inspection tour of NASA installations: Cape Canaveral Florida, 2:31PM. President John F. Kennedy views Mercury spacecraft systems and equipment inside Hangar S, during a tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Left to right: Manager of Florida Operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center, G. Merritt Preston; astronaut Major L. Gordon Cooper; President Kennedy; Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr. (face obscured by camera). The President visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations.

Inspection tour of NASA installations: Cape Canaveral Florida, 2:31PM. President John F. Kennedy views Mercury spacecraft systems and equipment inside Hangar S, during a tour of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Left to right: Manager of Florida Operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center, G. Merritt Preston; astronaut Major L. Gordon Cooper; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (in back, mostly hidden); President Kennedy; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell (very back, partially hidden); Secretary of the Air Force, Eugene M. Zuckert; newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr. The President visited Cape Canaveral as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations.

Lexington, Massachusetts high school student, Judith Miles, discusses her proposed Skylab experiment with engineers and scientists during a design review of the experiment equipment. At left is Ron Pavlue of Kennedy Space Flight Center (KSC), holding a box is Keith Demorest of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Right of Miles is Dr. Raymond Gause, also of MSFC, who is Miles scientific advisor. In her experiment, called the “Web Formation in Zero Gravity”, spiders were released into a box and their actions recorded to determine how well they adapt to the absence of gravity. Spiders are known to adapt quickly to other changes in the environment but nothing was known of their ability to adapt to weightlessness. At the same time spiders were weaving webs in Earth orbit, similar spiders were spinning webs in identical boxes on Earth under full gravity conditions. Miles was among the 25 winners of a contest in which some 3,500 high school students proposed experiments for the following ye

S70-34986 (14 April 1970) --- A group of six astronauts and two flight controllers monitor the console activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC) during the problem-plagued Apollo 13 lunar landing mission. Seated, left to right, are MOCR Guidance Officer Raymond F. Teague; astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 prime crew lunar module pilot; and astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., Apollo 14 prime crew commander. Standing, left to right, are scientist-astronaut Anthony W. England; astronaut Joe H. Engle, Apollo 14 backup crew lunar module pilot; astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 14 backup crew commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, Apollo 14 backup crew command module pilot; and M.P. Frank, a flight controller. When this picture was made, the Apollo 13 moon landing had already been canceled, and the Apollo 13 crew men were in trans-Earth trajectory attempting to bring their damaged spacecraft back home.

ABC news journalist Jules Bergman interviews the Skylab 3

Anefo photo collection. Cabinet formation; Andriessen et al. November 3, 1977

Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, explains the purpose of a thermal curtain in the mockup of a Saturn I workshop to U.S. Representative Armistead Seldon of Alabama. The Congressman visited the Marshall Center on March 2, 1968 to tour the workshop and to visit Marshall Center facilities.

British Atom Scientist Receives Nobel Prize in Stockholm Photo Shows: Sir John Cockcroft, the well known British Scientist Receiving his Nobel prize from King Gustav of Sweden during the ceremony in Stockholm. Sir John Cockcroft is head of the atomic Research Establishment at Harwell, Berkshire, and shared the Physics Prize with Professor E.T.S. Walton, of Trinity College, Dublin. November 12, 1951. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Ltd)

Astronautics industry, fifth exhibition of the technique, turin, piemonte, italy 1955.

Britain's First Underwater Telephone Link With America.Inside the Test Room of the 'Monarch' are, left to right, Mr. L.A. Bailey, Senior Project Engineer, and Mr. S. Jack, both of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Mr. J. Ross, Testing engineer of the Monarch. The transatlantic cable was tested for any possible faults continuously throughout the operation. December 1, 1955. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Westbury, New York high school student, Keith L.Stein , is greeted by (left to right) Astronauts Russell L. Schweickart, and Owen K. Garriott; Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Skylab Program Manager, Leland Belew; and MSFC Director of Administration and Technical Services, David Newby, during a tour of MSFC. Stein was among 25 winners of a contest in which some 3,500 high school students proposed experiments for the following years Skylab mission. The nationwide scientific competition was sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Anefo photo collection. Opening International Plastic Fair "Marco Plastic" by drs. J. F. H. Kwast. November 13, 1957

Anefo photo collection. Prof. Holst director Philips Laboratory. May 26, 1946

OEEC Delegates at "Visual Aids in Agriculture" Conference. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The chemist has declared war on insect pests. Ford (Right) shows the four young scientists who work with him (average age 28 years) linseed bolls attacked by the Heliothis caterpiller. March 12, 1952.

Springfield, Massachusetts high school student, Gregory A. Merkel, is greeted by (left to right) Astronauts Russell L. Schweickart, and Owen K. Garriott; Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Skylab Program Manager, Leland Belew; and MSFC Director of Administration and Technical Services, David Newby, during a tour of MSFC. Merkel was among 25 winners of a contest in which some 3,500 high school students proposed experiments for the following years Skylab Mission. The nationwide scientific competition was sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Lausanne (Switzerland), 9/5/1960. One of the attractions of the Comptoir Switzerland, an important trade fair held in the Swiss city of Lausanne, was the model of the bathyscaphe, the device invented by Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques, who pose in front of the aforementioned model, a high-resolution copy exists.

Laboratory Techniques - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Mr. W.A.S. Burtement, Chief Scientific Officer at the Salisbury Long Range Weapons research establishment and his assistant, Mr. C. Bayly examining a captured German Kine Theodolite which was used to find the position of a projectile while in flight. June 02, 1948.

Berkley, Michigan high school student, Kirk M. Sherhart, is greeted by (left to right) Astronauts Russell L. Schweickart, and Owen K. Garriott; Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Skylab Program Manager, Leland Belew; and MSFC Director of Administration and Technical Services, David Newby, during a tour of MSFC. Sherhart was among 25 winners of a contest in which some 3,500 high school students proposed experiments for the following years Skylab mission. The nationwide scientific competition was sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Garland, Texas high school student, Keith D. McGee, is greeted by (left to right) Astronauts Russell L. Schweickart, and Owen K. Garriott; Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Skylab Program Manager, Leland Belew; and MSFC Director of Administration and Technical Services, David Newby, during a tour of MSFC. McGee was among 25 winners of a contest in which some 3,500 high school students proposed experiments for the following years Skylab Mission. The nationwide scientific competition was sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Pioneer 10 Mission to Jupiter; Press conference and tour of Mission Control for VIP visitors with Dr. Werner Von Braun on left (in trench coat) Dr Richard Fimmel, Ames, center (with album) and Dr Fletcher, NASA Administrator to his right.

Anefo photo collection. Third international congress for log. Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Kras. Y. Barkillel (Pres.), Professor A. Heyting and Miss J. Hersch /. 25 August 1967

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0823. 1956

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition The Atom in the Netherlands Institute of Nijverheid and Techniek in Amsterdam. December 4, 1963. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Astrophysics Institute, Bill Curtis, Fulbright Student. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard opened exhibition working with atoms in Utrecht. March 1, 1966. Utrecht

Apollo 11 astronauts, (left to right) Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module pilot; Michael Collins, Command Module pilot; and Neil A. Armstrong, commander, are showing a two-pound Moon rock to Frank Taylor, director of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. The rock was picked up from the Moons surface during the Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) of Aldrin and Armstrong following mans first Moon landing and was was presented to the Institute for display in the Art and Industries Building. The Apollo 11 mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished.

Dr. von Braun encouraged his laboratory directors and other managers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to adopt a hands-on approach to managing the technical challenges they confronted in developing the Saturn rockets for the Marned Lunar Landing Program. He is shown here asking a question about welding in an MSFC manufacturing and engineering laboratory. This photograph was made on or about October 17, 1967.

Ethyl Corporation, a fuel-additive corporation, was the first to use tetraethylene (TEL) as an anti-knock additive in gasoline. An announcer speaks into a television camera during an early press conference in the early 1960's.

Vintage Photograph. Students learning to operate a movie projector.

Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard opens Youth Laboratory Evoluon from Philips in Eindhoven. Left ir. F. J. Philips. November 27, 1969. Eindhoven

Inside Mercury flight control, Walter C. Williams, associate director for Project Mercury operations (center) listens to Christopher Kraft, flight director (right).

Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard opens Youth Laboratory Evoluon from Philips in Eindhoven. Left ir. F. J. Philips. November 27, 1969. Eindhoven

Werner Magnus Maximilian Freihier von Braun (1912-1977) German scientist involved in his country's rocket programme. After the Second World War he took US nationality. He became Director of NASA and is regarded as the father of the US space programme.

Visit of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials involved in the Mariner II Project, 12:25PM. President John F. Kennedy (right) visits with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials, who presented him with a model of the Mariner 2 spacecraft (on the Presidents desk). Left to right: Jack N. James, Project Manager of Mariner 2 for NASAs Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL); Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., Associate Administrator of NASA; Robert J. Parks, Planetary Programs Director for JPL; unidentified stenographer (in back, seated); Dr. William H. Pickering, Director of JPL; Dr. James E. Webb, Administrator of NASA; and President Kennedy. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. See also MO 63.300a, Model of Mariner II Spacecraft.

Laboratory Techniques - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Navigator Obtaining Positional Data From Loran Receiver Indicator. Electronics: Loran - Navigator aboard ship obtaining positional data from a Loran Receiver Indicator..Note Loran chart and table on work shelf.

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Thousandth glider's proof issued to Toon Buyz (16 years) in conversation with Dr. Ir. Van der Maas. September 20, 1962

LORAN. Navigator aboard ship obtaining positional data from a LORAN receiver indicator. Note LORAN chart and tables on work shelf.

Dr. H.C. Coombs. March 29, 1951.

Huntsvilles Jack Giles, Alabama State Senator (left), and Dr. Rocco Petrone, Marshall Space Flight Center Director (Middle), speak with Astronaut Owen Garriott who is inside the Apollo 16 Command Module on display at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The successful Apollo 16 manned lunar landing mission took place April 16, 1972 through April 27, 1972. (Photograph courtesy of Huntsville/Madison County Public Library)

S82-33032 (30 June 1982) --- This scene shows activity at the spacecraft communicator and flight activities officer consoles in the mission operations control room (MOCR) in the Johnson Space Center s mission control center (MCC). Astronaut Brewster H. Shaw Jr., right, Astronaut Roy D. Bridges Jr. and Marianne J. Dyson are pictured during STS-4 s Day 4 activity. Shaw and Bridges are spacecraft communicators and Dyson is a flight activities officer on the entry team.

NASA pilot Bruce Peterson (right) and actor James Doohan (of Star Trek fame) discuss the M2-F2 Lifting Body.

S61-02767 (5 May 1961) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in flight couch for final check before insertion into capsule for his Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) flight.

(L-R) Dr John Billingham, Melvin Sadoff and Dr R Mark Patton, staff members of the Biotechnology Division.

WILLIAM MILLER AT THE 200-INCH TELESCOPE COUDE EYEPIECE.

Vintage Photograph. A plotter and filterer.

International Scientists Visit Harwell -- Mr. T.G.Smith of the Harwell Reactor Engineering Division, uses a model to explain the new experimental heavy water reactor "Dido", now under construction, to some of the scientists. L. to R. Dr. Marcelo Roca (Cuba): M. Gerard Milhaud (France); Mr. Pelley (Gt. Britain): and Dr. F. Dominic (Turkey).150 scientists from 32 countries who has attended the Geneva conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy, were taken on a conducted tour of the British research establishment at Harwell, Berkshire.The visitors afterwards left again for Geneva. August 25, 1955. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

S68-50696 (October 1968) --- Public Affairs Office (PAO) commentator Douglas K. Ward (foreground) is pictured at his console in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during the flight of Apollo 7.

The members of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics visited the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) on March 9, 1962 to gather firsthand information of the nations space exploration program. The congressional group was composed of members of the Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight. The subcommittee was briefed on MSFCs manned space efforts earlier in the day and then inspected mockups of the Saturn I Workshop and the Apollo Telescope Mount, two projects developed by MSFC for the post-Apollo program. In this photograph, MSFC Director, Dr. Wernher von Braun and Richard L. Roudebush, Republican representative of Indiana, discuss Apollo models.

Astronauts at 1959 Langley Inspection

S70-35748 (20 April 1970) --- Dr. Donald K. Slayton (center foreground), MSC director of flight crew operations, talks with Dr. Wernher von Braun (right), famed rocket expert, at an Apollo 13 postflight debriefing session. The three crewmen of the problem-plagued Apollo 13 mission (left to right) in the background are astronauts James A Lovell Jr., commander; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot. The apparent rupture of oxygen tank number two in the Apollo 13 Service Module (SM) and the subsequent damage forced the three astronauts to use the Lunar Module (LM) as a lifeboat to return home safely after their moon landing was canceled. Dr. von Braun is the deputy associate administrator for planning of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

A 1/10th Scale Model of the X-15 research plane is prepared in Langley's 7 x 10 Foot Wind Tunnel for studies relating to spin characteristics. -- Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication (page 66), by James Schultz.

The 1960s Star Trek television series cast members visit NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, now called Armstrong, in 1967. The shows Chief Engineer Montgomery ‘Scotty Scott played by James Doohan talks with NASA Pilot Bruce Peterson.

Astronaut Michael Collins on the right and Richard Wright on the left during tour of Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL) at MSC.

Presentation of the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to Astronaut John Herschel Glenn, Jr., at Cape Canaveral. Project Mercury Flight Director Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. (left) and astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. (center) brief President John F. Kennedy on the operation of the Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, prior to the presentation ceremony of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal to Lieutenant Colonel Glenn. Brevard County, Florida.

From left to right: Charles Donlan, deputy head, and Robert Gilruth, head of STG, look at a scale model of a Mercury space capsule.

Piccard Leaving On World's Greatest Deep Sea Diving Expedition --Professor Auguste Piccard is surrounded by reporters aboard the 4,000-ton steamer "Scaldis "here just before his departure with his friend and colleague,Professor Max Cosyns, for the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of West Africa, with their bathyscaphe, for the greatest deep-sea diving expedition of modern times.The Piccard-Cosyns expedition is of much scientific importance - for the man who made the world gasp with - astonishment 17 years ago by going up 10 miles in a balloon, will enter the steel bathyscaphe with his partner Cosyns - and descend 2½ miles into the black depths of the ocean. September 07, 1955.

Volcanoes - After Mount St. Helens Eruption - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Anefo photo collection. Prince Claus Hogeschool Eindhoven; Prince Claus Laboratory. March 10, 1987. Eindhoven

Inauguration of the Technorama (B-hall) on January 15, 1965 by Author Harry Martinson and Museum Director Torsten Althin.

Anefo photo collection. Princess Margriet Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven visit Laboratory PTT. December 10, 1987

S63-09593 (15-16 May 1963) --- John A. Powers sits at the Public Affairs Officer console in Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida during the Mercury Atlas 9 (MA-9) 22-orbit mission of astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr.

Anefo photo collection. 100 years of Utrecht Observatory Dir. Prof. Minnaert Group. September 22, 1953. Utrecht

12/31/1974. Researchers in the Doñana preserve laboratory.

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Atomal Forum in Alkmaar, Ir. J. Coehoorn illustrates its explanation of the low flux reactor. September 26, 1962. Alkmaar, Noord-Holland

The Electrolux laboratory. The staff in the laboratory on Lilla Essingen.

The Professor in Quizzed - Sir John Cockcroft explains the "Geiger" counter for counting Beta particles in atomic research at the Ministry of Supply's stand to an enthusiastic audience.Professor Sir John Cockcroft, shy, spectacled 52-year-old atomic research director, one of the men who helped to develop the first atom bomb - went to the Schoolboys Exhibition at the New *****. January 6, 1949.

Ammonium Nitrate Experiment. This image depicts members of the Coast Guard and Mallinckrodt Chemical Company laboratories observing the effect of heat on ammonium nitrate. Pictured include Dr. John R. Ruhoff, Clay Clifton, H. V. Farr, and J. W. Leek.

The members of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics visited the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) on March 9, 1962 to gather firsthand information of the nations space exploration program. The congressional group was composed of members of the Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight. Standing at the Apollo Applications Program Cluster Model in building 4745 are (left-to-right) Dr. Wernher von Braun, MSFC; Congressman Joe D. Waggoner, Democratic representative of Louisiana; Congressman Earle Cabell, Democratic representative of Texas; Subcommittee Chairman Olin E. Teague, Democratic representative of Texas; Congressman James G. Fulton, Republican representative of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, associate MSFC director for science. The subcommittee was briefed on MSFCs manned space efforts earlier in the day and then inspected mockups of the Saturn I Workshop and the Apollo Telescope Mount, two projects developed by MSFC for the post-Apollo program.

Anefo photo collection. Delegation from American Board of Churches speaks with Dutch churches about bombing in Vietnam, prof. Harvey Cox shows fragmentation bomb of Honeywell. January 9, 1973

S69-39587 (20 July 1969) --- Dr. Garry Latham (left) with the Lamont Geological Observatory, studies seismometer tracings in the Mission Control Center's (MCC) ALSEP control room. The electronic data was coming from the Passive Seismic Experiments Package (PSEP) which the Apollo 11 astronauts had just deployed on the surface of the moon. Dr. Lamont is the principal investigator for the PSEP, a component of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP). PSEP uses three long-period seismometers and one short-period vertical seismometer for measuring meteoroid impacts and moonquakes. Such data will be useful in determining the interior structure of the moon; for example, does the moon have a core and mantle like Earth Here, the flapping of the PSEP's solar panels is picked up and registered as a tracing. The PSEP was sensitive enough to pick up the footsteps of astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., as they walked on the moon.

The Royal Society -- The Royal Society, or to give its title in full "The Royal Society of London for improving Natural Knowledge, is the oldest scientific society in Britain and among the oldest in Europe. It was founded in 1960 and King Charles II gave it his support that year, Its charter dates from 1662. The nucleus of men of learning out of which the Society grew has been in the habit of meeting for some years before. The immense developments of Scientific research since those days has led to the formation of many other scientific bodies specializing in some particular branch. September 13, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph)

S70-35148 (17 April 1970) --- Staff members from NASA Headquarters (NASA HQ), Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), and Dr. Thomas Paine (center of frame) applaud the successful splashdown of the Apollo 13 mission while Dr. George Low smokes a cigar (right), in the MSC Mission Control Center (MCC), located in Building 30. Apollo 13 crewmembers, astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., commander; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot, splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), April 17, 1970, in the south Pacific Ocean.

STS029-S-047 (16 Mar 1989) --- Student experimenter John C. Vellinger, right, watches a TV monitor in the customer support room of Johnson Space Center's mission control center during a downlink from the spacecraft of astronaut John E. Blaha conducting the experiment in the incubator used for the test. The experiment is titled "Chicken Embryo Development in Space." Also visible are Neil Criestie and Robert N. Stuckey of JSC. The experiment's sponsor is Kentucky Fried Chicken.

S74-32481 (November 1974) --- These two men are flight directors for the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission scheduled for July 1975. Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Yeliseyev (left) is the Soviet ASTP senior flight director; M.P. Frank is the American ASTP senior flight director. They are seated beside a Docking Module training mock-up in Building 35 at the Johnson Space Center. Cosmonaut Yeliseyev was head of a delegation of USSR flight controllers who were at JSC for two weeks of ASTP training.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment TNO: Fracture Congress (room). June 16, 1986

Astrophysics Institute, Bill Curtis, Fulbright Student. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Madrid, 02/14/1990. Presented the Armillary Sphere, which will commemorate the V Centenary of the Discovery of America. In the image, the architects of the project, the sculptor Rafael Trenor and the engineer José Antonio Fernández Ordóñez, before a model of the Armilar Sphere, which will be inaugurated in 1992.

S81-33963 (July 1981) --- Mission specialist/astronaut Sally K. Ride and Dale E. Moore of the flight control divisions electrical, mechanical and environmental systems branch take a special interest in a simulations session during which the remote manipulator system (RMS, a mechanized arm) takes a momentary spotlight. They are seated at the CAPCOM or capsule communicator console in the mission operations control room of JSCs mission control center. Dr. Ride will converse with astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly during their STS-2 mission in space when the RMS will have its debut in the Columbias cargo bay. Astronaut James F. Buchli, serving in a CAPCOM capacity, is partially obscured behind Dr. Ride.

Anefo photo collection. American astronauts on the moon; Images from TV. Presenter Henk Terlingen and Minister Marga Klompé. July 21, 1969

Anefo photo collection. American astronauts on the moon; Images from TV. Presenter Henk Terlingen and Minister Marga Klompé. July 21, 1969

View of O&C Building Altitude Chambers

S.P. Ferguson with a machine that measures snow and hail ca. early 1900s .

S65-18063 (23 March 1965) --- Astronaut Clifton C. Williams is shown at console in the Mission Control Center (MCC) in Houston, Texas during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight. The GT-3 flight was monitored by the MCC in Houston, but was controlled by the MCC at Cape Kennedy.

Anefo photo collection. Atomal Forum in Alkmaar, Ir. J. Coehoorn illustrates its explanation of the low flux reactor. September 26, 1962. Alkmaar, Noord-Holland

U.S.A. Police - Forensic Science. April 23, 1951.

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