Vintage Space Technology and Instruments

A collection of historical images showcasing vintage space technology, including telescopes, lunar simulators, and re-entry vehicles, all in black and white.

TWO-PRISM SPECTROGRAPH MOUNTED AT THE CASSEGRAIN FOCUS OF THE 60-INCH TELESCOPE.
TWO-PRISM SPECTROGRAPH MOUNTED AT THE CASSEGRAIN FOCUS OF THE 60-INCH TELESCOPE.
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Project Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., enters the Friendship 7 spacecraft during the last part of the countdown on Feb. 20, 1962. At 9:47 a.m. EST, the Atlas launch vehicle lifted the spacecraft into orbit for a three-orbit mission lasting four hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds. Glenn and his spacecraft were recovered by the destroyer Noa just 21 minutes after landing in the Atlantic near Grand Turk Island, to successfully complete the nation's first manned orbital flight.
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Men at work for building a planetarium with German Zeiss technology, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, year LVIII, n 15, April 12, 1931.
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Greenland Cosmic Ray Scientific Expedition By The U.S. Office of Naval Research -- During the summer months of August and September 1952, the U.S. Office of Navel Research carried out a series of high altitude cosmic ray investigations in the vicinity of the *****. The United States Coastguard cutter "Eastwind" with its "postage stamp" flight deck (60 feet in diameter) from which balloons measuring up to 180 feet were launched, nosing bar way through the ice in the region where the balloons ware sent up. November 20, 1952.
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Presentation of the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to Gen. Thomas D. White, 11:42AM. The Space Trophy established by the National Geographic Society and presented to Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Thomas D. White. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.