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…
Axel Roth
Axel Roth fondly remembers his time at Marshall Marshall Star - Aug. 12, 2004 by Lynnette Madison On July 2, Marshall Center Associate Director Axel Roth closed the door to…
BIO-ASTRONAUTICS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (International)
BARF by Jack Stokes, et al HISTORY Created in a moment of boredom in the year 1968 within the bowels of the Man-System Integration Branch; Systems Analysis & Integration Laboratory;…
HARSHWORDS 2 by George Harsh
MY YEARS AT NASA/MSFC 1963—1999 SOME OF THE MORE INTERESTING PROGRAMS/PROJECTS THAT I WAS A PART OF, INCLUDING SOME HISTORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY ROCKET CITY USA HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA REDSTONE…
Spacelab Memories
by Gary Hitt Spacelab was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), coordinating the efforts ten participating European governments. It was a modular laboratory designed to fly in the cargo…
A Solid-State Demultiplexer for the Saturn
by Willie Weaver This is an account of just one of the many times where NASA helped push our electronic world out of the old technology and into the transistor/solid-state…
How I Got A Job At NASA
by Gary Wicks In my junior year of High School, 1955, I informed my Mother I was going to the University of Tennessee and study Music. She Said “No! You…
THE SKYLAB MAN-RATED ALTITUDE CHAMBER AT MSFC 
by George Harsh NOTE: I know that now-days it’s Human-Rated or Crewed ! However, back then it’s Man-Rated, or Manned. During the early development of SKYLAB, Test Division received a…
Shuttle Main Propulsion System (MPS) – Chief Engineers Office
by George Harsh The Shuttle MPS consists of: (1) the HUGE External Tank (ET), actually 2 propellant tanks—1 for Liquid Hydrogen, the other for Liquid Oxygen. And an Intertank between…
Launching Pegasus
By Jim Miller [This adapted excerpt is from the NASA chapter of Jim’s published book Memories of Jim Miller written for his family and friends.] When I arrived at Marshall Space Flight…