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Moon Bound – Apollo 15
Moon Bound – Apollo 15

The Apollo 15 Saturn V is seen from a camera located at the mobile launcher’s 360-foot level at Launch Pad…

Mercury Mission Control
Mercury Mission Control

Inside Mercury flight control, Walter C. Williams, associate director for Project Mercury operations (center) listens to Christopher Kraft, flight director…

Compact Planetary System
Compact Planetary System

This artist’s concept depicts a planetary system so compact that it’s more like Jupiter and its moons than a star…

Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia Moves Toward Pad A
Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia Moves Toward Pad A

The first space shuttle destined to fly in space moves toward Pad A at Launch Complex 39, where it lifted…

Presidential Visit
Presidential Visit

President John F. Kennedy (left) visits Mercury’s Flight Control Area a few days after John Glenn’s flight in February 1962.…

Mercury Mission Control
Mercury Mission Control

Christopher Kraft, flight director during Project Mercury, works at his console inside the Flight Control area at Mercury Mission Control.

Brilliant Sub-scale Solid Rocket Motor Test
Brilliant Sub-scale Solid Rocket Motor Test

It was three-two-one to brilliant fire as NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center tested a small solid rocket motor designed to…

The Gemini Years
The Gemini Years

On Dec. 26, 1963, ownership of this facility officially was transferred from the U.S. Air Force to NASA. Now called…

Project Gemini Mission Control Center
Project Gemini Mission Control Center

For the Gemini program, a few changes were made to the Mission Control Flight Control Area layout. One change was…

LADEE Propulsion System
LADEE Propulsion System

James Bell examines the integrated propulsion system for LADEE, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer in a cleanroom at…