NASA HistoryNASA conducts the first test of the Saturn V S-IC-5 rocket stage on the B-2 Test Stand at Stennis Space...A 1979 photo offers a close-up view of a space shuttle main propulsion test article (MPTA) hot fire on the...The Gemini X patchA 100-foot-tall crane lowers a Centaur stage through a removable dome into the Space Power Chambers’ vacuum tank on March...An enormous crater marks the site where the A-2 test stand was being built in 1964 at the Mississippi Test...Ground crews hoist an S-II second stage into the A-2 test stand at MTF.Mission patch for Gemini VI-A. On December 15-16, 1965, Gemini VI-A astronauts Walter M Schirra, Jr. (Commander) and Thomas P....The U.S. Navy's Brewster Buffalo experimental aircraft is tested at Langley's full-size wind tunnel in 1938 during its drag-cleanup studies.Members of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs, also known as the "Mercury 13"), these seven women who once aspired...Global Associates employee Andy Anderson (l) and a colleague make repairs to a motor control center at the Mississippi Test...Dick Hogue (right) checks on early liquid hydrogen work in 1965 at the Mississippi Test Facility (now John C. Stennis...NASA research pilot Bill Dana takes a moment to watch NASA's NB-52B cruise overhead after a research flight in the...Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) mission, stands fully suited beside his spacecraft during preflight...Mercury astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, left, and Wally Schirra check out the Mercury Atlas-8 spacecraft in the Hangar S white...Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) flight, is seen in Hanger S crew quarters during...Alan Shepard prepares his sub-orbital spaceflight in the procedures trainer before launch of Freedom 7.Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. lays in his flight couch for final check before insertion into capsule for his Mercury-Redstone...Astronaut Alan B. Shepard is assisted by a technician in getting into his space suit at 2:45 a.m. in the...Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. is helped into the lower half of his pressure suit for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3)...Astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn at breakfast before Shepard’s Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spaceflight.Early construction of the Apollo Service Module Test Area began in 1963.Space shuttle Challenger's third flight was the first to have its beginnings in darkness, as NASA's eighth space shuttle launch...
