Cows Really Can Jump Over the Moon
By Frank E. Swalley From Dairy Farm Boy to Rocket Scientist Fascinating People I Met Along the Way A Murderer, Football Players, Apollo Astronauts and Others MASHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER…
West Was at Pearl Harbor, Many Other Pacific Battles
Star Salute from Marshall Star, December 4, 1968 Several thousand Americans received their “baptism of fire” in the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor 27 years ago on Saturday, Dec.…
Spaceflight Adventures
(Never Left the Ground) by Spike Field (Please click the link below.) https://www.marshallretirees.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Spike-Field.pdf
Dr. Wernher von Braun
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Quotes from IPS CDR-A
Compiled by Fred Applegate For use on Spacelab pallet missions, the Instrument Pointing System (IPS) was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), headquartered in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The prime contractor…
Space Research and Education Founder
Dr. Alexander J Dessler served as Director of the Space Science Laboratory at Marshall Space Flight Center from 1982 to 1986. The following life story was published at the time…
Astrionics Laboratory
by P. D. Nicaise Building 4487, A-wing, Main Entry Photos by P. D. Nicaise, 1969 Building 4487 was constructed as an electronic research and development facility for the U. S.…
The Jupiter-C Rocket and Explorer-1 Satellite
by Willie (Bil) Weaver Figure #1: Jupiter-C Rocket and Explorer-1 Satellite under test. I was a Co-Op Student alternating semesters of work between the University of Alabama and…
Footsteps In My Heart
by Dennis C. Foster, December 11, 2022 December 11th, what a great day in Space! Today, the Artemis I mission completed a voyage around the moon, as the Orion capsule…
Summary of My Adventures in the Space Program
by Willie (Bill) Weaver After high school graduation in 1955, my life suddenly became quite busy. I enrolled at the University of Alabama and was taking two mathematics courses on the…