Skylab Food Heating / Serving Tray Collection
This collection consists of the NASA Acceptance Data Packages and drawings for Skylab Food Heating / Serving Trays Serial Numbers 4904, 4913 and 4914, as well as material relating to tray Serial Number 4912.
Saunders Kramer Bucephalus Space Station and USSR Space Vehicle Collection
This collection consists of artist renderings of the Bucephalus Space Station (Lockheed) in the following formats: six four by five color transparencies; fifty-five color sides; five color prints, and ten three by four glass mounted viewgraphs. This collection also includes twenty-eight 7.5 by 9.5 color transparencies relating to Soviet space vehicles.
Air & Space Magazine
This accession consists of a reference set of Air & Space magazine (Volume 31, Number 2 through Volume 32, Number 7), which is published bi-monthly by Smithsonian Enterprises and may occasionally include special issues. The magazine documents the world of aviation and space flight today, plus offers in-depth coverage about flight history, military aviation, space …
Air & Space Magazine
This accession consists of a reference set of "Air & Space" magazine (Volume 27, Number 2 through Volume 31, Number 1), which is published bi-monthly by Smithsonian Enterprises and may occasionally include special issues. The magazine documents the world of aviation and space flight today, plus offers in-depth coverage about flight history, military aviation, space …
Gravity-propelled Interplanetary Space Travel Collection
This collection consists of 114 journal articles, letters and printouts by various authors which track the history and development of gravity-assisted trajectories. This collection also includes an introductory letter with a general overview of the topic by Dr. Michael A. Minovitch (California-Berkely) who collected the articles.
Kurt Fredriksson Papers
These papers consist of materials created and maintained by Kurt Fredriksson, Curator and Geochemist with the National Museum of Natural History, Division of Meteorites. Materials include incoming and outgoing correspondence as well as one folder of his research on early National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space vehicles and an …
Skylab 4 Commander's Flight Data File (Gerald Carr Collection
This collection consists of the Flight Data File issued to Mission Commander Gerald P. Carr (1933 - ) for training during the three months prior to launch. The material consists of crew manuals, checklists, and other procedural documentation, including both Skylab 4 'mission only' as well as general 'all missions' manuals. The collection also …
Skylab Interior Design Concept Photography
This collection consists of 11 color slides, 23 color prints, and two DVDs, one containing scans of the drawings and one containing a PowerPoint presentation, all relating to early interior design concepts of the Skylab main interior. There is also one brochure, "Skylab," produced by the McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
Rocketdyne Saturn J-2 Liquid-Fuel Motor Testing Collection
The Rocketdyne J-2 Liquid-Fuel Motor, using liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, was the powerplant for the second and third stages of the Saturn V launch vehicle that took astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo program. John G. Baldwin was a US Navy veteran and engineer who worked for North American Aviation, Inc.'s Space and Information Systems Division where he was part of the Saturn S-2 Stage testing team. This collection consists of photographs and ephemera relating to testing of the Rocketdyne J-2 Liquid-Fuel Motor used in the Saturn S-2 Stage which took place in 1964 and 1965 at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Southern California.
Skylab (McDonnell-Douglas) Collection
This collection consists of McDonnell-Douglas Astronautics Co. documents relating to the construction of NASA's Skylab Orbital Workshop in 1970-1972. It contains still photographs covering the construction of the vehicle and its transportation to Kennedy Space Center, Florida, which were submitted to NASA every month during the project. Also included are daily …
