Nuclear Testing and Research Era

Historical black and white images depicting nuclear experiments, technology developments, and early scientific research in the context of military and space exploration.

T108 Placement of SS 10. Altair (depicted - name)

More Soil Delivered to Phoenix Lab

Electric motor space.SB Sid seen from Cl .. Kockums AB (depicted name), shark (depicted name)

Laboratory of Physics. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a cooperative program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration

The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which was the first of the two Voyagers to launch, is seen at the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This archival photo is from August 1977. The spacecraft was put into this shroud on August 2, 1977, to protect it during flight through the atmosphere.

Langley's human computers at work in 1947. The female presence at Langley, who performed mathematical computations for male staff. -- Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication (page 48), by James Schultz.

The Voyager 1 Golden Record is prepared for installation on the spacecraft in this archival image from 1977.

W.H. Robertson, assit. astronomer at the Sydney Observatory, with the astrographic telescope. July 24, 1953. (Photo by Frank Albert Charles Burke/Fairfax Media).

The Electrolux laboratory. Special cooler for Karolinska Institutet.

Antares (depicted - name).Antares (depicted - name)

Florida, Cape Canaveral, test launch of the tiros II weather satellite, 1960.

Geotechnical laboratory

Vertical model flying in Langley Research Center's Full Scale Tunnel.

Exhibits. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

View of Solid Rocket Booster

Vintage Photograph. Overhead view closeup of telegraph machine transmitter

AS13-59-8484 (April 1970) --- Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., commander, is pictured at his position in the Lunar Module (LM). The Apollo 13 crew of astronauts Lovell; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot, relied on the LM as a lifeboat . The dependence on the LM was caused by an apparent explosion of oxygen tank number two in the Service Module (SM). The LM was jettisoned just prior to Earth re-entry by the Command Module (CM).

Bolex camera, X-ray

This image taken by the Stereo Surface Imager aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander focuses on items on the deck rather than the workspace or horizon on Sol 8.

S65-61788 (For release 11 Dec. 1965) --- Close-up view of equipment which will be used in the D-8 (Radiation in Spacecraft) experiment on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Gemini-6 spaceflight. This experiment is designed to make highly accurate measurements of the absorbed dose rate of radiation which penetrates the Gemini spacecraft, and determine the spatial distribution of dose levels inside the spacecraft particularly in the crew area. This is experimentation of the U.S. Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M. LOWER LEFT The second ionization chamber, this one is unshielded. This chamber can be removed from its bracket by the astronaut who will periodically take measurements at various locations in the spacecraft. Nearby is Passive Dosimeter Unit which is one of five small packets each containing a standard pocket ionization chamber, gamma electron sensitive film, glass needles and thermo luminescent dosimeters which are mounted at various locations in t

The Electrolux laboratory. The L30 refrigerator (Åtvidaberg).

Vintage photograph. Low angle view of a researcher standing in the High Tension Laboratory in Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, University, England

Spain, Canary Islands, La Palma Island, Parque Nacional Caldera de Taburiente national park, Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, The Florian Goebel MAGIC Telescopes

Toy robot, X-ray

Studio shot of microscope and test tubes

S61-04622 (1961) --- Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. looks into a Celestial Training Device (globe) during training in the Aeromedical Laboratory at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Without close inspection it is difficult to tell spectacles fitted with the new lens from ordinary glasses. They replace the old bulky compound lenses (below). September 21, 1955. ;Without close inspection it is difficult to tell spectacles fitted with the new lens from ordinary glasses. They replace the old bulky compound lenses (below).

S69-40749 (July 1969) --- Dr. Grant Heikan, MSC and a Lunar Sample Preliminary Examination Team member, examines lunar material in a sieve from the bulk sample container which was opened in the Biopreparation Laboratory of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. The samples were collected by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. during their lunar surface extravehicular activity on July 20, 1969.

Miscellaneous Charts, Space Capsule

Brachiopod, 1904 - 1906, by James McDonald.

Phonoplex telegraph invented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). Engraving.

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.Skredjup. Distance setting for 2 meters. The image has increased depth of depth of depth. For more info see: Bäckström, Helmer. Photographic manual. Nature and Culture. Stockholm. 1942. p. 73.

L57-700 In the reentry flight path of this nose cone model of a Jupiter Intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) was tested in the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel. Photograph published in Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958 by James R. Hansen. Page 475.

The Technique And Practice Of Opium Smoking -- Testing the temperature of the opium. February 27, 1952. (Photo by Hedda Morrison, Camera Press).;The Technique And Practice Of Opium Smoking -- Testing the temperature of the opium.

Modified Bell X-1 model pioneered variable-sweep studies in 1947. Photograph published in Sixty Years of Aeronautical Research 1917-1977 By David A. Anderton. A NASA publication, page 52.

A851775 U12T MIGHTY OAK RING EXPERIMENT ASSEMBLY WILLIAM BARRETT (Project Engineer) DEC 17 85 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 12/17/1985 ASSEMBLIES; CABLES (NON ELECTRIC COMPANY); COMPONENTS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MIGHTY OAK; MIGHTY OAK NUCLEAR TEST; MIGHTY OAK TEST; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; RING EXPERIMENT; RING EXPERIMENT ASSEMBLY; T-TUNNEL; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; MIGHTY OAK-RING EXPERIMENT historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Aircraft of The Future -- The Defence Department in Washington distributed this artist's conception of a disc-shaped, vertical rising Aircraft Oct. 25 and said such a plane could result from a project under development for the U.S. Air Force by a Canadian Firm, Avroy Ltd. October 25, 1955. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Photo).

Rear axle of a mountain bike with a hydraulic brake

View of STS Discovery

Once the United States' space program had progressed from Earth's orbit into outerspace, the prospect of building and maintaining a permanent presence in space was realized. To accomplish this feat, NASA launched a temporary workstation, Skylab, to discover the effects of low gravity and weightlessness on the human body, and also to develop tools and equipment that would be needed in the future to build and maintain a more permanent space station. The structures, techniques, and work schedules had to be carefully designed to fit this unique construction site. The components had to be lightweight for transport into orbit, yet durable. The station also had to be made with removable parts for easy servicing and repairs by astronauts. All of the tools necessary for service and repairs had to be designed for easy manipulation by a suited astronaut. Construction methods had to be efficient due to the limited time the astronauts could remain outside their controlled environment. In lieu of al

Once the United States' space program had progressed from Earth's orbit into outerspace, the prospect of building and maintaining a permanent presence in space was realized. To accomplish this feat, NASA launched a temporary workstation, Skylab, to discover the effects of low gravity and weightlessness on the human body, and also to develop tools and equipment that would be needed in the future to build and maintain a more permanent space station. The structures, techniques, and work schedules had to be carefully designed to fit this unique construction site. The components had to be lightweight for transport into orbit, yet durable. The station also had to be made with removable parts for easy servicing and repairs by astronauts. All of the tools necessary for service and repairs had to be designed for easy manipulation by a suited astronaut. And construction methods had to be efficient due to limited time the astronauts could remain outside their controlled environment. In lieu of al

Artwork: "Instructor Console for Mission Simulator - Kelly AFB" Artist: Marbury Brown. Country: Unknown

DN-SN-89-08602. Base: Naval Air Station, Pensacola State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Artist's impression of a man made "moon satellite". Dated 20th century

Young researchers, 1963.

1978

S69-54147 (October 1969) --- Two members of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission participates in lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) simulations in the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Flight Crew Training Building. Here, astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander, is holding the bottom end of the lunar equipment conveyor. Inside the Lunar Module (LM) and out of view is astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot. The simulations were part of a run-through of the Apollo 12 lunar surface timeline .

1960S Side View Of Students Working On Circuitry Panel With Small Soldering Iron

The Electrolux laboratory. First experiment Skull, type G.

The Electrolux laboratory. The L1 cabinet.

Knots , Knots & splices, Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center U.S.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

04/15/1993. Advanced technology laboratory of the space division of the state Aeronautics company Casa. They are useful for the mechanical integration of Platforms and Instruments, as well as New Computing Media, Robotics Laboratories, radiofrequency and Optical Measurements.

T107 Machine damage.Aldebaran (depicted name)

100' Satellite Packaging of Echo

NEWTONIAN SPECTROGRAPH MOUNTED ON 100-INCH TELESCOPE.

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Vintage Photograph. Vintage diving suit technology: exploring the depths with a historic underwater suit.

COELOSTAT MIRRORS IN THE 60-FOOT TOWER DOME.

S69-60909 (November 1969) --- A close-up view of lunar sample 12,052 under observation in the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., and Alan L. Bean collected several rocks and samples of finer lunar matter during their Apollo 12 lunar landing mission extravehicular activity (EVA). This particular sample was picked up during the second space walk (EVA) on Nov. 20, 1969. It is a typically fine-grained crystalline rock with a concentration of holes on the left part of the exposed side. These holes are called vesicles and have been identified as gas bubbles formed during the crystallization of the rock. Several glass-lined pits can be seen on the surface of the rock.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Burning valve acetyle device. undated

Dynamic Detonators - A steel plate test is used to illustrate the initiating power of the new type of blasting caps. The hole in the plate at left was made with the recently developed detonator, arranged as shown on the center plate. The dome-shaped depression in the plate at right was made with the conventional type of cap. August 29, 1946. (Photo by Wide World Photos).

Police Forensic Detective Photographing Crime Scene, Collecting Evidence

High angle view of jet engine parts with a group of people

Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory, Muktesar, Punjab, India: incubator room showing two incubators. Photograph, 1897.

John Baird - Inventor Television. April 06, 1938

Astronaut James Lovell at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted Space-Flight Simulation at Langley Research Center," Paper presented at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1966 Winter Meeting, New York, NY, November 27-December 1, 1966. "This facility was later known as the Visual-Optical Simulator. It presents to the pilot an out-the-window view of his target in correct 6 degrees of freedom motion. The scene is obtained by a television camera pick-up viewing a small-scale gimbaled model of the target." "For docking studies, the docking target picture was projected onto the surface of a 20-foot-diameter sphere and the pilot could, effectively, maneuver into contract. this facility was used in a comparison study with the Rendezvous Docking Simulator - one of the few comparison experiments in which conditions were carefully controlled and a reasonable sample of pilots used. All pilots preferred the more realistic RDS visual scene. The pilots

B732177 U12E DIAGNOSTICS DICK BAFF (Project Engineer) MAY 23 73 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 5/23/1973 DIAGNOSTIC; DIAGNOSTICS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Test Setup For Model Landing Investigation of a Winged Space Vehicle Image used in NASA Document TN-D-1496 1960-L-04633.01 is Figure 9a for NASA Document L-2064 Photograph of model on launcher and landing on runway.

NBCD detection equipment for radioactive radiation arranged in a test setup

Electric fan, X-ray

S65-42598 (10 Nov. 1965) --- Douglas S. Idlly, Electromagnetic Systems Branch, Instrumentation and Electronic Systems Division, illustrates an Optical Communications Transmitter (LASER) during a briefing at the news center of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.

Photograph taken of the United Nations' satellite enabling them to connect with operations around the world. Dated 20th Century

A technician adjusts the console controls of the control record for a ground meteorological detection antenna. Base: Chanute Air Force Base State: Illinois (IL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The Electrolux laboratory. L 55 - Refrigerator.

Atomic Accelerators. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Portrait of Astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, Apollo 14 lunar landing mission Command Module pilot in civilian clothes.

Astronauts Conrad and Bean at Lunar Landing Research Facility. Alan Bean was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. He served as backup astronaut for the Gemini 10 and Apollo 9 missions.In September of 1962, Mr. Conrad was selected as an astronaut by NASA. His first flight was Gemini V, which established the space endurance record and placed the United States in the lead for man-hours in space. As commander of Gemini XI, Mr. Conrad helped to set a world's altitude record. He then served as commander of Apollo XII, the second lunar landing. On Mr. Conrad's final mission, he served as commander of Skylab II, the first United States Space Station.

Water Analysis Lab, Dissolved Oxygen Field Kit, Enfield, Mass., ca. 1935 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, engineering, chemistry equipment

An experimental setup for making blood vessels visible for thrombosis research in the pharmaceutical industry.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Soviet and American crews for the July Apollo Soyuz Test Project standing, center addressed personnel assembled in a firing room at KSC on February 10. The crews for the joint manned space mission toured the Center during their three-day visit which also included inspection of ASTP equipment and facilities and a trip to Disney World.The first international crewed spaceflight was a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. rendezvous and docking mission. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, or ASTP, took its name from the spacecraft employed: the American Apollo and the Soviet Soyuz. The three-man Apollo crew lifted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard a Saturn IB rocket on July 15, 1975, to link up with the Soyuz that had launched a few hours earlier. A cylindrical docking module served as an airlock between the two spacecraft for transfer of the crew members.

S71-19269 (12 Feb. 1971) --- A close-up view of Apollo 14 sample number 14414 & 14412, a fine lunar powder-like material under examination in the Sterile Nitrogen Atmospheric Processing (SNAP) line in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). Scientists are currently making preliminary analyses of material brought back from the moon by the crew of Apollo 14 lunar landing mission.

S69-40205 (27 July 1969) --- The crewmen of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission go through their post flight debriefing session on Sunday, July 27, 1969. Left to right, are astronauts Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Neil A. Armstrong, commander. They are seated in the debriefing room of the Crew Reception Area of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center.

Anefo photo collection. From 17 to 22 November in Bernhard and Marijke Hall of Utrecht Jaarbeurshallen, the electrical engineering trade fair, safety lamp. November 17, 1980. Utrecht

S72-38465 (19 May 1972) --- In an isolated area of the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory, engineer David White (left) and University of Texas geologist/professor William Muehlberger look at a "special" rock brought back from the moon recently by the Apollo 16 astronauts. Lunar sample 61016, better known as "Big Muley," is a large breccia sample, the largest moon rock returned by any Apollo crew, which is named after Muehlberger, the Apollo 16 field geology team leader.

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