NASA Operations and Engineering History

Historical images of engineers and astronauts monitoring equipment and conducting tests during significant NASA missions, capturing the essence of space exploration.

Vintage Photograph. Reactor control Center Control and recording instruments for the Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment being conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission are checked out by scientists. The OMRE which utilizes a hydrocarbon as moderator and coolant, is part of the AEC's program to develop economical power from nuclear energy.

Astronomer at C-141 KAO workstation (rack) during flight of Harper Flange package

Telemetry Engineer Ken Walker monitors a computer panel that is collecting data in the Telemetry Ground Testation Room, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL). Base: Hanscom Air Force Base State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The IML-1 mission was the first in a series of Shuttle flights dedicated to fundamental materials and life sciences research with the international partners. The participating space agencies included NASA, the 14-nation European Space Agency (ESA), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), The French National Center of Space Studies (CNES), the German Space Agency and the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DAR/DLR), and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). Dedicated to the study of life and materials sciences in microgravity, the IML missions explored how life forms adapt to weightlessness and investigated how materials behave when processed in space. Both life and materials sciences benefited from the extended periods of microgravity available inside the Spacelab science module in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter. This photograph shows Astronaut Norman Thagard performing the fluid experiment at the Fluid Experiment System (FES) facility inside the laboratory

C-141 KAO Research Team for December 1979 Computer equipment

Vintage Photograph. Reactor control Center Control and recording instruments for the Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment being conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission are checked out by scientists. The OMRE which utilizes a hydrocarbon as moderator and coolant, is part of the AEC's program to develop economical power from nuclear energy.

40x80ft Wind Tunnel control room with technicians and engineers - Ames Research Center ca. 1979.

A822138 SAFEGUARD WSI CONTROL ROOM - CP1 ELEANOR WALTHER (Project Engineer) NOV 16 82 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 11/16/1982 BUILDING SURVEY; BUILDINGS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES; EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES (SNL); EQUIPMENT (SNL); FACILITIES (SNL); MALE; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; SAFEGUARDS; SANDIA FACILITIES; SECURITY; SECURITY MEASURES; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WSI CONTROL ROOM; WSI CONTROL ROOM-CP-1; WSI SECURITY CHECK; SAFEGUARD-WSI CONTROL ROOM historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Close-up photo of the first production model of the MADDIDA (Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer), a computer developed by engineers at Northrop Aircraft between 1946-49 to be used as a missile guidance system, Los Angeles, CA, 12/1950. (Photo by United States Information Agency/GG Vintage Images)

A820454 AREA 25 ACOUSTICAL SENSOR STUDY BROUILLARD, JOHN A MAR 16 82 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/16/1982 25; ACOUSTICAL SENSOR STUDY; AREA 25; BROUILLARD, A JOHN; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SENSORS; STUDIES; TEST SITES; TESTING; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPON EFFECTS; WEAPONS RELATED; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Oceanographic research vessel A / B laboratory Hr.Ms. Tydeman (1976-2004)

S93-45376 (29 Sept 1993) --- Astronaut Rhea Seddon, STS-58 payload commander, participates in data collection for neurovestibular functions. The data collection process was in preparation for the Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS-2) flight scheduled for next month.

Anefo photo collection. Princess Margriet opens new lab from Academic Hospital in Amsterdam, Margriet in Laboratory. March 6, 1973. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Aerographer's Mate 3rd Class Loggett annotates a data printout in the Naval Oceanographic Command facility. Base: Naval Air Station, Bermuda Country: Bermuda (BMU)

Victor Baisley tests the Gimbal Mount Controller, used to scan rocket flight instruments, at the Ultraviolet Calibration Facility, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL). Base: Hanscom Air Force Base State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Dr. James Hammond measures the acceleration of falling objects in a vacuum during a test in the absolute gravity instrumentation room of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL). Base: Hanscom Air Force Base State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Final (VDA) Vapor Diffusion Apparatus Tray adjustments before loading into shuttle.

CPT Mel Fourroux, from the Air Force Air Weather Service, operates the eyepiece of an optical telescope. The telescope is the first of five observatories in the Solar Electro Optical Network (SEON) that will provide sun watch on a world-wide basis. Base: Palehua State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

1970S Man Sitting At Control Panel Of Nasa Mission Control Houston Texas Usa

A860170 DASSY PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION AUSTIN, HOWARD B (INSTRUMENTATION SUPERVISOR) JAN 16 86 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 1/16/1986 AUSTIN, HOWARD; DAASY PROGRAM; DOCUMENTATION; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; GENERAL PROGRESS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MALE; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MIGHTY OAK NUCLEAR TEST; MIGHTY OAK TEST; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; PROGRESS; TEST SITES; TESTING; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPON EFFECTS; WEAPONS RELATED; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; WIRE & CABLES; DASSY PROGRAM - DOCUMENTATION historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

At Launch Pad 17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a worker checks the wiring for a camera attached to the second stage of the Delta II rocket for the Mars Odyssey launch. The orbiter carries three science instruments THEMIS, the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS), and the Mars Radiation Environment Experiment (MARIE) that will map the mineralogy and morphology of the Martian surface. The Mars Odyssey Orbiter is scheduled for launch on April 7, 2001

Navy of the Navy Electronic and Optical Company (Meob) on board at work on a data recorder in June 1989.

Scientists working in a control room of a laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden

C-141 KAO Cornell University, FAR Infrared Interferometer - experimentor's station

S75-28685 (17 July 1975) --- An overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking mission in Earth orbit. The large television monitor shows an interior view of the Soyuz Orbital Module with astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (in front) visiting with cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov. Neil B. Hutchinson (right hand to chin) is the flight director for this shift.

A881380 U12N MISTY ECHO B-79 DONOHOE (PROJECT ENGINEER) DEC 7 88 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 12/7/1988 B-79; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MISTY ECHO; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WIRE & CABLES; U12N MISTY ECHO B-79 historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Polar Max Conference

Second LT. Joanne Shackford, a biomedical engineer, conducts an experiment at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. Base: Brooks Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

ISF Space Station Mock up @ MAFC (McGowen)

Vintage photograph. Scientists operating a mass spectrometer, an instrument which uses magnetic and electrical forces to separate isotopes

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At SPACEHAB, STS-107 Mission Specialist Laurel Clark gets hands-on experience with equipment that will be on the mission. Watching in the left foreground is Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla; next to her at left is Mission Specialist Michael Anderson. Identified as a research mission, STS-107 is scheduled for launch July 19, 2001

EPA scientist conducting computer analysis ca. 1996.

Oceanographic research vessel hr.ms plot table a / b. Tydeman (1976-2004)

1984 - During a Spacelab flight, the hub of activity was the Payload Operations Control Center (POCC) at the Johnson Space Flight Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas..

A laboratory technician writing notes of his observations at the bench of the Ultra-Violet Emission Spectrograph. The emission spectrograph is being used to determine the concentration of additive metals and wear products in lubricating oil. Only a few drops of the oil sample are required in the spectrograph equipment and the test is completed in about ten minutes. The sample is Excited by heating in an electric arc or spark. The light emitted contains a range of wavelengths which are. character

S69-39817 (20 July 1969) --- Interior view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center (MCC), Building 30, during the Apollo 11 lunar extravehicular activity (EVA). The television monitor shows astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. on the surface of the moon.

A technician at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) monitors the operation of a dye laser in the Fiber Optics Laser Facility. The dye laser, which is activated by the green laser at left, is used to measure the properties of fiber optics. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Astronauts Stuart A. Roosa, and Alfred M. Worden training a tRendezvous Docking Simulator NASA Langley. Worden was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight and as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 12 flight.Colonel Roosa was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight.

This laboratory evaluated the design criteria for crew safety and comfort. Performance of space suits, regulators, tubing, masks and associated equipment for dispensing respiratory gasses and for ventilation were studied by analyzing respiratory gases. A treadmill is available for determining physiological factors during exercise while wearing space suits in a variety of modes.

Pioneer Mission Control Center with personnel monitoring spacecraft (PMOC) including Dr Richard Fimmel

Views of Sen. Jake Garn and Charles Walker during STS-51B, Medical Experiment Training, 1-G Trainer, Bldg. 9A. 1. Senator Jake Garn - STS-51B Training 2. Charles Walker - STS-51B Training JSC, Houston, TX

Electronics Technician 3rd Class Dellacroce and Electronics Technician 3rd Class Shannan perform electrical checks on an SSR-117 machine in the Electronics Repair Shop of the Naval Communication Area MASTER Station, Atlantic. Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Life from other Worlds' with McNair Middle School TROV robot explores under Antarctic ice-image during demo with students operating TROV

ISF Space Station Mock up @ MAFC (McGowen)

A830791 U12N MINI JADE SCOPE FACES GARY MILLER (Project Engineer) JUN 20 83EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 6/20/1983 CABLES, FIBER OPTIC; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MILLER, GARY; MINI JADE; N-TUNNEL; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; SCOPE FACES; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS EFFECTS; WIRE & CABLES historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Measuring instruments A / B from the Oceanographic research vessel Hr.Ms. Tydeman (1976-2004)

CICLOTRON DE ENERGIA VARIABLE PARA REACCIONES QUIMICAS - ACELERADOR DE PARTICULAS.

June 11, 1998 - Researchers look at data

Elaine Skiba, computer engineer, inputs data into a computer panel in the telemetry ground testation room of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL). Base: Hanscom Air Force Base State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A87677 NON-EVENT COMPUTER ROOM BOBBY EDWARDS (PROJECT ENGINEER) APR 9 87 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 4/9/1987 COMPUTER ROOMS; COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS & COMPUTATIONAL EQUI; COMPUTERS BY TYPE; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; NON-EVENT COMPUTER ROOM historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

$St.Petersburg, Florida: November, 1962 A technician inspects a new subminiature aeronautic guidance computer developed by Honeywell that can perform 3,000 additions in a fraction of a second.$

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, Program Manager of the International Space Station (ISS) Randy Brinkley addresses the media before unveiling the name of "Destiny" given the U.S. Lab module, the centerpiece of scientific research on the ISS. With Brinkley on the stand are Center Director Roy Bridges (behind him), and (left to right) STS-98 Commander Ken Cockrell, Pilot Mark Polansky, and Mission Specialist Marsha Ivins. The lab, which is behind them on a workstand, is scheduled to be launched on Space Shuttle Endeavour in early 2000. It will become the centerpiece of scientific research on the International Space Station. Polansky, Cockrell and Ivins are part of the five-member crew expected to be aboard. The Shuttle will spend six days docked to the station while the laboratory is attached and three space walks are conducted to complete its assembly. The laboratory will be launched with five equipment racks aboard, which will provide essential fu

Photograph of a scientist testing a 'closed-circuit' laser that appears to be superior to a gyroscope for guiding spacecraft, rockets, airplanes and ships. Laser light beams flashing through the four fluorescent tubes in opposite directions are used to measure small movements of the laboratory table. Dated 20th Century

Woman in research lab with scanning electron microscope and x ray analyser at steel mill plant in Sweden

LABORATORIO DE PRUEBAS AERODINAMICAS.

Charles C. Gallagher prepares stratospheric composition research in the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL). Base: Hanscom Air Force Base State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, monitor the progress of the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE) during the U.S. Microgravity Payload-4 (USMP-4) mission (STS-87, Nov. 19 - Dec. 5, 1997). Remote Operation Control Center (ROCC) like this one will become more common during operations with International Space Station. IDGE, flown on three Space Shuttle missions, is yielding new insights into virtually all industrially relevant metal and alloy forming operations.

C-141 KAO Rochester, Cornell and California University Experiments packages on board

This array of photographic equipment, displayed on the aft flight deck payload station, represents just a part of the imaging and recording hardware which was carried aboard Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, for STS-31's five day mission. Lenses, film magazines, cassettes, recorders, camera chassis, a pair of binoculars, spot meter, tape recorder, and a bracket-mounted light fixture are included among the array.

Peter Curerri with KC-135 experiment hardware, a prototype aircraft version of Advanced Automated Directional Solidification Furnace (AADSF).

S89-41091 (18 July 1989) --- During the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT), STS-28 crew members are assisted with suiting up in the Operations and Checkout Building prior to departing for pad 39-B. STS-28 and the Space Shuttle Columbia are scheduled to be launched in early August on a Department of Defense dedicated mission. The crew for STS-28 are Commander Brewster H. Shaw; Pilot Richard N. Richards; and Mission Specialists Mark N. Brown, James C. Adamson, and David C. Leestma.

DN-SC-85-01682. Base: Bethesda State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Swiss scientits Claude Nicollier (left), STS-61 mission specialist, waits his turn at the controls for the remote manipulator system (RMS) during a training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Mark Norman of MSFC has control of the RMS in this frame.

Space Station Gravitational Biology Facility Project Mock-up with Kristine Guerra (2.5) with Biolab (simulating weightlessness in space)

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