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U.S. Destroyers tied up along side depot ship "Melville"

A die maker checking joints of a trim and pierce die which will be used to stamp out parts of automobile fenders. Photo made at Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., Detroit, Michigan

Navy Ship AFS-6 San Diego - Public domain photogrpaph

IN-HOUSE WINDMILL BLADE FABRICATION

Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing mold. Before the curing process the tread surface had been ground down evenly and had a strip of reclaimed camelback rubber attached to it. The plan to recap passenger tires with passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

DISASSEMBLY ON NO. 10 DELAVAL EXHAUSTER

Training for war. This apprentice school lad will become a soldier of industry in our war preparation. Right now he's learning how to grind tools at an eastern armory

Rained-out fireman's carnival, July 4th celebration, State College, Pennsylvania

Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing mold. Before the curing process the tread surface had been ground down evenly and had a strip of reclaimed camelback rubber attached to it. The plan to recap passenger tires with passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

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Photograph of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom Preparing for Testing

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Official portrait of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom in pressure suit

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Photograph of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom Preparing for Testing in the Centrifuge

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Original caption: Being readied for testing in the U.S. Navy's centrifuge at Johnsville, Pennsylvania is Virgil I. Grissom, 35, one of three astronauts chosen for the first manned suborbital flight of Project Mercury, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's manned space flight program.

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label_outline Explore Space Flight Program, Astronaut Virgil I, Virgil L Grissom

Gary Purcell and Robert Jacobs, Grissom firefighters,

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]

A left rear view of the space shuttle Challenger landing after a mission in space

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]

Under the goals of the Vision for Space Exploration, Ares I is a chief component of the cost-effective space transportation infrastructure being developed by NASA's Constellation Program. This transportation system will safely and reliably carry human explorers back to the moon, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the solar system. The Ares I effort includes multiple project element teams at NASA centers and contract organizations around the nation, and is managed by the Exploration Launch Projects Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MFSC). ATK Launch Systems near Brigham City, Utah, is the prime contractor for the first stage booster. ATK's subcontractor, United Space Alliance of Houston, is designing, developing and testing the parachutes at its facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston hosts the Constellation Program and Orion Crew Capsule Project Office and provides test instrumentation and support personnel. Together, these teams are developing vehicle hardware, evolving proven technologies, and testing components and systems. Their work builds on powerful, reliable space shuttle propulsion elements and nearly a half-century of NASA space flight experience and technological advances. Ares I is an inline, two-stage rocket configuration topped by the Crew Exploration Vehicle, its service module, and a launch abort system. This HD video image depicts friction stir welding used in manufacturing aluminum panels that will fabricate the Ares I upper stage barrel. The aluminum panels are subjected to confidence panel tests during which the bent aluminum is stressed to breaking point and thoroughly examined. The panels are manufactured by AMRO Manufacturing located in El Monte, California. (Highest resolution available) n/a

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Italian-built module, U.S. Node 2, arrives at the Space Station Processing Facility after its move from the Shuttle Landing Facility. The second of three connecting modules on the International Space Station, Node 2 attaches to the end of the U.S. Lab and provides attach locations for the Japanese laboratory, European laboratory, the Centrifuge Accommodation Module and, later, Multipurpose Logistics Modules. It will provide the primary docking location for the Shuttle when a pressurized mating adapter is attached to Node 2. Installation of the module will complete the U.S. Core of the ISS. Node 2 is the designated payload for mission STS-120. No orbiter or launch date has been determined yet.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle [Discovery flying over Washington. D.C., on final journey to its permanent museum home]

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astronaut virgil astronaut virgil i grissom centrifuge exploration explorers astronauts outer space space programs nasa virgil l grissom pennsylvania space flight program astronaut virgil three astronauts flight project mercury national aeronautics committee papers workers industrial history 1960 s space program us national archives