As a child watching Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Ted Mosteller dreamed of working for the space program. As leader of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Landing
perform a similar open ocean activity with Boeing using the company’s water recovery trainer
After its return from its second flight into space, in January 1982 NASA prepared space shuttle Columbia for its third mission, scheduled for launch on March
Gordon Fullerton pose in a shuttle trainer.
Meet four employees from NASA’s Glenn Research Center who have a personal connection to aviation, at work and beyond.
after beginning a full-time NASA job, she hopped in a Piper Tomahawk single-engine trainer
Skylab was America’s first space station and first crewed research laboratory in space. Early visions of orbiting space stations predated the Space Age
View inside the Skylab trainer on display at Space Center Houston (right).
On May 6, 1968, NASA astronaut Neil A. Armstrong took off on a simulated lunar landing mission in a Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) at Houston’s Ellington Air Force Base (AFB). After about five minutes of nominal flying, the vehicle went out of control.
I had made from 50 to 60 landings in the trainer, and the final trajectory I flew
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth before the end of
matched Bell’s proposed design closely enough that the LLRV served as an excellent trainer
Fifty years ago, the two-tiered NASA mission Gemini VII/VI-A made history by proving that two independently launched spacecraft — piloted by astronauts —
Using parts from an Air Force gunnery trainer, they rigged a system that used a television
The Saturn IB rocket carrying the Skylab 3 crew thundered off Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on July 28, and they successfully
Pictured in the one-G trainer Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA) at the Johnson Space
Almost 64 years to the day after the Mercury 7 announcement, NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) revealed the names of the four astronauts assigned to the
however, to fly a certain number of hours per month in the back seat of a T-38, a jet trainer
Skylab, America’s first space station and the first crewed research laboratory in space, lifted off on May 14, 1973, on the last Saturn V rocket. Although the Soviet Union orbited the first experimental space station called Salyut in 1971, the larger and more complex Skylab enabled research in several areas.
Right: View inside the Skylab trainer on display at Space Center Houston (SCH).
