Historic Space Program Meetings

Archives from early space programs showing meetings, discussions, and training sessions related to missile systems and astronaut missions.

1969 - At a post-flight Apollo 11 press conference, Neil Armstrong talks about seeing Earth from outer space.

S88-44661 (13 Aug 1988) --- Tom Kestler, with Orthopaedic Hospital, USC, one of the sponsor representatives for student experimenter Andrew Fras explains components of Fras' experiment. It will be carried onboard theDiscovery for NASA's STS-29 mission next year. His primary audience is made up of members of the STS-29 crew who will monitor in-space operation of the experiment, titled "Effects of Weightlessness on Bone Healing." Crewmembers, clockwise around the table from the left, are Astronauts Robert C. Springer, James F. Buchli, Michael L. Coats, John E. Blaha and James P. Bagian. Seated in far right background is Dr. June Marshall of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, the student's sponsoring organization.

Anefo photo collection. Quiz hands and science. HR. De Jong, C. Butner and Theo Eerdmans. September 17, 1961

John H. Wolfe, Pioneer Project Scientist, explains observations made by Pioneer 10 as it traversed the Jovian system

Anefo photo collection. American astronauts on the moon; Images from TV. Professor Fred L. Polak. July 21, 1969

Ames engineers Allen Faye, Merrill Mead and John 'Jack' Boyd discuss aircraft design and handling

DR. CARL SAGAN WITH DR. DAVID MORRISON (AMES). First International Conference on Circumstellar Habitable Zones.

S72-46702 (December 1972) --- The three members of the prime crew of the third of three scheduled manned Skylab missions (Skylab 4) appear before a gathering of news media representatives at a press conference held at the Manned Spacecraft Center. They are, left to right, astronaut William R. Pogue, pilot; scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, science pilot; and astronaut Gerald P. Carr, commander.

James Fletcher and Wernher von Braun at Apollo 15 Launch

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