Historical Space Exploration Footage

Vintage footage documenting astronaut training, equipment tests, and space missions, showcasing aerospace technology through the decades.

The Apollo Soyuz Mission of 1975.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Pad 39A, the external tank attached to Space Shuttle Atlantis shows damage from hail bombardment during a strong thunderstorm that passed through Kennedy Space Center about 5 p.m. EST on Feb. 26. A full assessment of the storm's impact is under way. The two-day STS-117 Flight Readiness Review is being held concurrently with the assessment. Hail also impacted Space Shuttle Columbia before the launch of STS-4 in 1982; Atlantis, being readied for STS-38 in 1990; and Discovery, before the launch of STS-96 in 1999.

A771470 U3KT EBBTIDE DOWNHOLE OPERATION JOHN A BROUILLARD AUG 31 77EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 8/31/1977 BROUILLARD, JOHN; CABLES (NON ELECTRIC COMPANY); EBBTIDE; EBBTIDE TEST; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SHAFT TEST; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPON EFFECTS; WEAPONS RELATED; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; WIRES, GUIDE; EBBTIDE DOWNHOLE OPERATION historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Contactee Daniel Fry photographed this spinning UFO at Joshua Tree, California 3 of 5 Date: 1965

The Laminar Soot Processes (LSP) experiment under way during the Microgravity Sciences Lab-1 mission in 1997. LSP-2 will fly in the STS-107 Research 1 mission in 2001. The principal investigator is Dr. Gerard Faeth of the University of Michigan. LSP uses a small jet burner, similar to a classroom butane lighter, that produces flames up to 60 mm (2.3 in) long. Measurements include color TV cameras and a temperature sensor, and laser images whose darkness indicates the quantity of soot produced in the flame. Glenn Research in Cleveland, OH, manages the project.

Revise and repairing the balloon inside.

Full chemistry set with microscope and test tubes

S69-40758 (24 July 1969) --- The Apollo 11 spacecraft Command Module (CM) and the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) are photographed aboard the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic first lunar landing mission. The three crewmen are already in the MQF. Apollo 11 with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. aboard splashed down at 11 49 a.m. (CDT), July 24, 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii and only 12 nautical miles from the USS Hornet. While astronauts Armstrong, commander, and Aldrin, lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) Columbia in lunar orbit.

Photo collection Government information service. 50 years aviation research, in the wind tunnel. 1969

Robert Peary's (1856-1920), American explorer who claimed to be the first person to reach the geographic North Pole, here flag flying at the North Pole.

Photograph of Dr. Wilson and Lieutenant Bowers reading the ramp thermometer during the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition. Photographed by Herbert G. Ponting(1870-1935) professional photographer. Dated 1911

futuristic vision of Mining on a moon base 1948

Glass diapositive from 1916 by Arthur von Hübl depicting an accommodation building captured with a long-distance and scissor removal camera.

Smaller remote-control disc from Coma Berenices, about 1 metre in diameter ; it is accompanied by small spheres which whirl round it 2 of 2 Date: 19 June 1966

UFO whose 3 occupants talked with Paul Villa, giving him instructions how to make his own flying saucer 1 of 2 Date: 19 June 1966

Apollo Project's prototype of the Lunar Landing Module in an early test flight.

MSC 040A Space Shuttle 11ft. W.T. Tests pf Acoustic Environment (Configuration 5 with James M. Peterson

This image shows a test rover as it attempts a complete 115-degree turn on the lander in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's in-Situ Instruments Laboratory, or 'testbed.'

MAJ. John Wadsworth stands in front of the celestial simulator he uses to teach navigation in the planetarium. Base: Mather Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Model of crane lifting stone block of 700 kg, From De Architectura, by Vitruvius, Made by H. Lienhard, P. Andre F. Rossi

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