GPN-2000-000367, NASA history collection
Description: (June 26, 1945) Mr. Abe Silverstein, Chief of the Wind Tunnel and Flight Research Division at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, ... More
Abe Silverstein Leads Tour of the 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunne...
Abe Silverstein, Associate Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, provides a personal tour of the new 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel for US... More
Atomic Energy Commission, Abe Silverstein
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) officials with Abe Silverstein (front row, sitting third from left), working out the final reactor licensing issues. It is said that Silverstein told AEC Director Glenn Seaborg th... More
James Webb and Abe Silverstein. NASA public domain image colelction.
NASA Administrator James Webb (left) and Lewis Director Abe Silverstein (center, with glasses) peer into the reactor tank while visiting Plum Brook...Image # : C-1961-58735
NASA Press Conference Regarding Vostok 1 Flight
(April 12, 1961) After the successful spaceflight of Yuri Gagarin, the first person to fly in space, as well as orbit Earth, NASA held a press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC to respond to que... More
Abe Silverstein. NASA public domain image colelction.
Abe Silverstein, director of Lewis Research Center, addresses an audience about the benefits of nuclear propulsion. In the background is a display titled "Nuclear Energy Research Technology" that features image... More
NASA Administrator James Webb and Lewis Director Abe Silverstein
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator James Webb toured the new Plum Brook Reactor Facility in December 1961 with Abe Silverstein, the newly appointed Director of the Lewis Research... More
Sonic Boom Model in the Abe Silverstein Supersonic Wind Tunnel (10x10)...
Sonic Boom Model in the Abe Silverstein Supersonic Wind Tunnel (10x10)
NACA's Special Committee on Space Technology
NACA's Special Committee on Space Technology, called the Stever Committee after its chairman, Guyford Stever, meets at Lewis, May 26, 1958. Left to right, Edward R. Sharp, Director of Lewis Laboratory; Colonel ... More
Abe Silverstein
Abe Silverstein