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National Air and Space Museum. Office of Administration
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1992-1996
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 97-041
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of general training and program files. Since the training coordinator's program originated within the Collections Management Division, some files overlap the two offices.
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Elms, James C., 1916-
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1959-1980
- Size:
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3.5 Cubic feet (10 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1993.0047
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of speeches, papers, notes, newspaper articles and records on Elms' career, including the following areas: Transportation System Center; Electronics Research Center; Manned Space Station; Space Shuttle; Space Systems Committee; Gemini Mission Review Board; and Hearings on space topics.
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United States Space Program Oral History Collection [Kapp]
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Kapp, Michael
- Dates:
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1939-1977 and undated
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30.01 Cubic feet (44 legal document boxes; 9 letter document boxes; 8 audio boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0138
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of reel to reel audio tapes relating to the United States space program. The material includes recordings of events, missions, press conferences, and other happenings from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.
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Healy, Roy
- Dates:
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bulk 1930s-1960s
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8 Cubic Feet ((8 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2017.0034
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection of papers consists of approximately 8 cubic feet of material chronicling Roy Healy's lifelong interest in rocketry and his career as a rocket engineer. The collection includes correspondence; technical manuals; technical drawings; book manuscripts; articles; reports; slides; photographic prints; publications; scrapbooks; and pamphle...
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Porter, Richard W. (Richard William), 1913-1996
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circa 1930s-1980
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6.54 Cubic feet (6 records center boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1997.0037
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of six feet of material documenting Porter's many scientific contributions. The following types of material are included: photographs, lecture notes, correspondence, trip notes, newspaper clippings, symposium programs, papers, and periodicals, circa 1930s-1980s.
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Bendix Corporation.
Bendix Aviation Corp
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1931-1985
bulk 1931-1939
bulk 1946-1962
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7.28 Cubic feet (5 records center boxes, 1 16 x 20 x 3 inch flatbox, 1 12 x 16 x 3 inch flatbox)
7.66 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1988.0115
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Bendix Corporation (1924-1983), manufacturers of devices for the automotive and aviation industries, sponsored the Bendix Trophy Race—a transcontinental speed competition for aircraft—annually from 1931-1939, then sporadically from 1946-1962. This collection includes race-related materials from the Bendix Advertising and Publicity department, along with materials from other aviation events for which Bendix was a sponsor. Approximately a third of the collection relates to the corporation's activities from circa 1960 to 1983, including military and commercial avionics and communications systems, and support for the Unites States space program, particularly the construction of Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39.
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Campbell, Lawrence Edward "Larry," Jr.,, 1926-1992.
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bulk 1945-1992
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0.87 Cubic Feet ((2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2016.0035
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 0.87 cubic feet of material relating to the career of Lawrence Edward "Larry" Campbell, Jr. in the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force Reserves, the National Transportation and Safety Board, and the Alaska Air National Guard.
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Bellcomm, Inc.
- Dates:
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1959-1972
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81.71 Cubic feet (222 letter document boxes, 1 slim letter document box, 4 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0093
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains the non-book portion of Bellcomm's Technical Library. The material in the collection consists of technical reports prepared by NASA subcontractors and/or NASA facilities during the first decade of space exploration (1960-1970). The collections also includes some reports issued by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at Pasadena, CA, including Space Program and Research Summaries, as well as technical and engineering documents.
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Science Service
- Dates:
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1920-1979
- Size:
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41.04 Cubic feet (114 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0125
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Science Service was founded in 1921 by newspaper publisher Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) and the zoologist William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944) as a news service for the purpose of disseminating information on scientific progress to the public, and to "present facts in readable and interesting form." The Science Service Astronomy and Astronautics files in the National Air and Space Archives consists of papers, news releases, articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and technical papers pertaining mainly to astronomy and astronautics and dating from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.
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Jones, Ernest La Rue, 1883-1955
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1906-1960
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17.38 Cubic feet (41 letter document boxes; 1 slim legal document box; 2 flatboxes; 2 microfilm cases)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0096
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Ernest Jones Aeronautical Collection (NASM.XXXX.0096) contains approximately 17 cubic feet of material comprised of the works of this early aviation historian and materials relating to his career and personal life. The collection includes original correspondence, photographs, published material, and various other media.