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NASA Rocket and Missile Design

Vintage footage of scientists working on rocket designs, missile components, and testing processes at space research facilities.

1960s - Plastic insulators protect American soldiers from germs during and after surgery at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington DC.
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Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist - mission aerogel samples provided to UC Berkeley for analysis by NASA on microscopeScientist researching laser beam, Schenectady, New York, USAA840553 U12T MIDAS MYTH EXPERIMENT RECOVERY STEPHEN FALACY (PROJECT ENGINEER) MAR 14 84 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 3/14/1984 E-41; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EXPERIMENT RECOVERY; GLOVES; GLOVES, SURGICAL; INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MIDAS MYTH; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; U12T MIDAS MYTH-EXPERIMENT REC historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.JERRY LEWIS in THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963), directed by JERRY LEWIS.In Vitro FertilizationA scientist wearing a protective hat and mask mixes fluids in a laboratory experiment.Scientist sitting at microscope examining slideC-141 KAO CAT ExperimentDura-Chemie produces medicines for the medical sector, here on 01.06.1990 in Wolfsratshausen, DEU, Germany, EuropeVintage Photograph. Girl in chemistry class.Kiev Academy of Sciences, Pr team Gluzman, research the effects of radioactivity on blood cells, Ukraine, May 1995.A860301 U12N MIDDLE NOTE H.E. WRAP STALLER, G E FEB 19 86 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 2/19/1986 EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; H.E. WRAP; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; MIDDLE NOTE NUCLEAR TEST; MIDDLE NOTE TEST; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; STALLER, G E; TEST SITES; TESTING; TUNNEL TEST; U12N MIDDLE NOTE; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPON EFFECTS; WEAPONS RELATED; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; WRAP & ASSEMBLY; U12N MIDDLE NOTE - H.E. WRAP historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.DA-ST-87-02699. Base: Aurora State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)Criminal Investigation Division, Training Facility in Brunswick, Georgia , Environmental Protection AgencyScientist conducting research with a vintage microscope in the laboratory.A91456 EG&G SDO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES STA. I BEIRLE'S OFFICE BEIRLE (Project Engineer) AUG 20 91 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 8/20/1991 ACTIVITIES; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EG&G SDO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES; EG&G SUPPORT ACTIVITIES; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT; MALE; MALES; MAN; MAN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; STA. I BEIRELE'S OFFICE; SUPPORT ACTIVITIES; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.Rice experiment, Department of Agriculture ca. between 1918 and 1928.Outfitted in lab coats, jump suits, hats and gloves, in order to maintain a clean lab environment, the "select print" crew members use a Niagara III continuous printer to print the required images from the U-2R reconnaissance films for the tasking customer. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Published in AIRMAN Magazine, May 1994. Base: Beale Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)In this photograph, Dr. Gerald Fishman of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), a principal investigator of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory's (GRO's) instrument, the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE), works on the BATSE detector module. For nearly 9 years, GRO's BATSE, designed and built by MSFC, kept an unblinking watch on the universe to alert scientist to the invisible, mysterious gamma-ray bursts. By studying gamma-rays from objects like black holes, pulsars, quasars, neutron stars, and other exotic objects, scientists could discover clues to the birth, evolution, and death of star, galaxies, and the universe. The gamma-ray instrument was one of four major science instruments aboard the Compton. It consisted of eight detectors, or modules, located at each corner of the rectangular satellite to simultaneously scan the entire universe for bursts of gamma-rays ranging in duration from fractions of a second to minutes. Because gamma-rays are so powerful, they pass throA NASA engineer installs a solar cell into a large array of solar cells.Mike Horne uses a laser doppler velocimeter (LDV) to measure velocity profiles and dynamic flow characteristics in the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Turbulent Flow Facility. The LDV system is able to measure three flow velocity components simultaneously. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)1960s SMILING MAN CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR LOOKING AT CAMERA HOLDING CLIPBOARD CONDUCTING A TITRATION CALCULATION BIOLOGY SCIENCE1970s MAN CRAZY LOONY MAD SCIENTIST CHEMIST IN LABORATORY POURING CHEMICALS FROM ONE BEAKER TO ANOTHERTwo civilian technicians look at the underneath side of a Minuteman (LGM-30) reentry platform. Platform is mounted on a test stand. Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)Two young teenage boys conducting an experiment in a high school chemistry class. Both boys are wearing protective aprons and face shields.1960s SCIENTIST MAN LAB TECHNICIAN CHECKING MEASUREMENT OF VOLUME VACUUM SYSTEMC-141 KAO Rochester, Cornell and California University Experiments packages on board1920s 1930s 1940s MAN SCIENTIST LAB TECHNICIAN IN WHITE COAT LOOKING AT TEST-TUBE IN FRONT OF MICROSCOPEFIRST LABORATORY OF OCEANOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION (1889). MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION. Maritime Museum of the Cantabrian Sea. Santander. Cantabria. Spain.1950s MAN IN LAB SEATED AT MICROSCOPE WRITING N IN BOOK USING A MEASURING CYLINDER DROPPER BOTTLE TEST TUBES IN RACK PETRI DISHNASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via sophisticated new telescopes. The Optics Center's goal is to develop low-cost, advanced space optics technologies for the NASA program in the 21st century - including the long-term goal of imaging Earth-like planets in distant solar systems. To reduce the cost of mirror fabrication, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has developed replication techniques, the machinery, and materials to replicate electro-formed nickel mirrors. The process allows fabricating precisely shaped mandrels to be used and reused as masters for replicating high-quality mirrors. Dr. Joe Ritter examines a replicated electro-formed nickel-alloy mirror which exemplifies the improvements in mirror fabrication techniques, with benefits such as dramtic weight reduction that have been achieved at the Marshall Space Flight Center's Space Optics Manufacturing Technology Center (SOMTC).