Space Mission Footage

Captivating historical clips related to space exploration, featuring astronauts and various spacecraft activities from different years.

1958 - Nozzles for the Project Able lunar probe do not hold up well under high altitude testing at the Arnold Engineering Development Center.

Reconstruction of the theatrum anatomicum with instrument cupboard and skeletons of people and animals; Leiden University exhibition 400..

Radar image of the Netherlands with flight movements at the air traffic control of the AOCS in New Milligen.

Juno II was a part of America's effort to increase its capability to lift heavier satellites into orbit. One payload was Explorer VII. This photograph depicts workers installing the Explorer VII satellite on Juno II (AM-19A) booster. The Explorer VII investigated energetic particles and obtained data on radiation and magnetic storms. The successful launch of Juno II took place on October 13, 1959.

The worlds tallest television tower has been built in Moscow.

Hughes apparatus in the field in action.

A technician checks a 0.25-scale engine model of a Vought Corporation V-530 engine in the test section of the 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Senior man standing near a robot

SSGT John Page, instrumentation mechanic/optical physics radiation specialist, observes and changes "hot and cold" absolute calibrations in a vacuum chamber during a test. The test is a part of the aircraft background infrared signature measurements program in the airborne infrared flying laboratory of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL). Base: Hanscom Air Force Base State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Practical Oblique Wing Test-026) in 11ft w.t. with R. T. Jones and test engineer

Simulator technician Sue Gerdts mounts an F-15 Eagle model for simulation of refueling operations at the KC-10 Extender Simulator Center. The model provides visual simulation of a receiver aircraft for boom operator training. Base: March Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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Oblique wing in 11ft. wind tunnel with R. T. Jones. Test 11-026.

In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), a Digital Video Disk (DVD) bearing 616,400 digitized signatures of people from nations around the world is attached to the Cassini spacecraft and will soon to be on its way to Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft is scheduled for launch on an Air Force Titan IV/Centaur launch vehicle on Oct. 6, 1997, and is destined to arrive at Saturn in July 2004

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