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Moon Missions
Man on Moon

Date: 1969-Apollo 11, Man on the Moon.

Photo No. 69-HC-684

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Artist Rendition Lunar Colony

Artist: Rick Guidice
Artist rendition for the Lunar Colony exterior.

Photo No. AC78-0330-1

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Artist Rendition Lunar Colony

Artist: Rick Guidice
Artist rendition for the Lunar Colony interior.

Photo No. AC78-0330-2

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Artist Rendition Lunar Colony

Artist: Rick Guidice
Artist rendition for the Lunar Colony interior.

Photo No. AC78-0330-3

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lunar module

July 21, 1969-Photographer: Astronauts
Apollo 11 Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin homeward bound, inside the ascent stage of the Lunar Module just after taking off from the Moon, start the first leg of their return trip to Earth, shown above the curving lunar surface.

Photo No. 69-HC-861

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Apollo Spacecraft Model

Date: 1969-Apollo spacecraft model in NASA Ames Research Center wind tunnel.

Photo No. A-28949

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Pioneer 11 pre-encounter with Saturn, as painted by Wilson Hurley.

Photo No. 80-HC-251

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Aug. 30, 1962-Photographer: Dave West
Apollo navigation simulator, used to test concepts for midcourse correction on the Voyage to and from he Moon

Photo No. A-29724-3

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Steerable Parachute

June 20, 1963-Photgrapher: Dave West
Steerable parachute for Apollo vehicle configure #107. Cluster #1 (One # 107 Leading, Two #114 Pushing.)

Photo No. A-31071

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Apollo capsule Free Flight Ablation Test

Aug. 20, 1963-Photographer: Dino Ponseggi
Apollo capsule Free Flight Ablation Test (Test-9, Run-11 and Run-13) for blunt body re-entry studies.

Photo No. A-31392

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Apollo Command Module

Model of the Apollo command module in an Ames wind tunnel.

Photo No. A-29305

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Apollo Command Module

Model of the Apollo command module in an Ames wind tunnel.

Photo No. A-29574

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Analyzing a moon sample 6

Analyzing a moon sample.

Photo No. A-42500-116F

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Analyzing a moon sample 5

Analyzing a moon sample.

Photo No. A-42500-123F

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Analyzing a moon sample 4

Analyzing a moon sample.

Photo No. A-42500-124F

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Analyzing a moon sample 3

Analyzing a moon sample.

Photo No. A-42500-127F

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Analyzing a moon sample 2

Analyzing a moon sample.

Photo No. A-42501-2F

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Analyzing a moon sample.

Analyzing a moon sample.

Photo No. A-42501-13F

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Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma analyzing a moon sample.

Photo No. A-42526-79F

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Lunar Surface Magnetometer

Oct. 16, 1969-Photographer: Jim Remmington
Apollo Lunar Surface Magnetometer (1-r) Dr. Palmer Dyal, NASA and Dr. C. Sonnet. NASA ALSEP Magnetometer.

Photo No. A-42603

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Apollo Lunar Module (1 of 4 views).

Photo No. A78-0627-1F

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Apollo Lunar Module (2 of 4 views).

Photo No. A78-0627-2F

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Apollo Lunar Module (3 of 4 views).

Photo No. A78-0627-3F

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Apollo Lunar Module (4 of 4 views).

Photo No. A78-0627-4F

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Date: 1969 or later-
Lunar mineralogical laboratory experiments. Apollo 11 samples. Photomicrograph – polarized light, lunar basalt, (X300).

Photo No. A42527-23F

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Date: 1969 or later-
Lunar mineralogical laboratory experiments. Apollo 11 samples. Photomicrograph – polarized light, glass fragment (X200).

Photo No. A42527-26F

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Lunar Specimen

Date: 1969 or later-
NASA Ames Research Center, from back of historical print: Plate 50. Lunar specimen ArC-3, HCl treated by chemists (X300).

Photo No. Plate 50

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Moonsphere

Date: 1969-
This image, #37, of Moon material. It is a "picture of the spheres." (X6700).

Photo No. Moonsphere #37

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Lunar Spacecraft

Date: before 1969
America’s lunar spacecraft, Apollo, will return to the Earth’s atmosphere at much higher speeds than those experienced by a satellite returning from orbit. It will experience heating much more intense as a direct consequence of its higher speed.

Photo No. A-27953

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Photo No. AC71-8744

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Earth rise

The Earth rises over the surface of the Moon.

Photo No. AS11-44-6559

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Magnetometer

Nov. 19, 1969-Photographer: JSC
Apollo 12 mission deploys Ames developed special Lunar surface Magnetometer to measure magnetic fields on the moon (Tri-axis magnetometer).

Photo No. AS12-47-6921

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Apollo Landing Site

Nov. 14, 1969-Photographer: Apollo Crew
Apollo crew landing site showing S-band antenna, the Lunar module Surveyor II and American flag.

Photo No. AS12-47-6981

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Alan B. Shepard with American Flag

Jan. 31, 1971-Photo by Apollo 14 crew astronaut Alan B. Shepard standing with American flag on lunar surface.

Photo No. AS14-66-9232

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Apollo Suit Color

Apollo space suit (color).

Photo No. -

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Apollo Suit

Apollo space suit with mannequin.

Photo No. -

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Apollo Space Suit Backview

Apollo space suit with mannequin (back).

Photo No. -

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Launch escape system

Date: 1963-
Apollo launch escape system being tested in the Ames unitary wind tunnel.

Photo No. GPN-2000-001573

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First View of Earth

Date: Aug. 1966-
The first view of the Earth taken from the moon. The photo was transmitted to Earth by the U.S. Lunar Orbiter I, and received at the NASA tracking station at Robledo De Chavela near Madrid, Spain. This crescent of the Earth was photographed when the spacecraft was on its 16th orbit and just about to pass behind the moon.

Photo No. GPN-2000-001588

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H. Julian Allen

H. Julian Allen, a paradigm-shifting aerodynmicist, served as Ames director during the Apollo years.

Photo No. GPN-2000-001778

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Chicago

Chicago welcomed the Apollo 11 astronauts

Photo No. GPN-2002-000035

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Apollo Command Module in Wind Tunnel

Apollo command module in tunnel.

Photo No. A-29420-1

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Lunar Soup

Date: Oct. 10, 1969-
'Lunar soup', a picture of lunar material magnified 1,600 times.

Photo No. plate 20

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Design of Pioneer

Basic Design of the Pioneer spacecraft 6 through 9.
By T. Howard

Photo No. A-33228

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Lunar Prospector

Date: 1997-
Lunar Prospector in an Ames clean room, mated atop the Star 37 trans lunar injection module.

Photo No. GPN-2000-001543

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Alfred J. Eggers

Alfred J. Eggers in the Ames hypervelocity ballistic range.

Photo No. GPN-2000-001586

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Atmospheric entry simulator

Date: 1959-
Atmospheric entry simulator, used to determine if a specific shape can survive atmospheric re-entry.

Photo No. GPN-2000-001638

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Closed Loop Breathing System

Date: 1963-
Closed loop breathing system, to study life support in space.

Photo No. GPN-2000-001767

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Shadowgraph

Date: 1960-
Shadowgraph images, showing shockwaves around possible re-entry shapes.

Photo No. GPN-2000-001938

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rtjones

R. T. Jones, Ames theoretical aerodynamicist, performs calculations in his NASA laboratory.

Photo No. A-13146-8

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RELATED LINKS
+ Atmosphere of Freedom-Sixty Years at the NASA Ames Research Center
+ Searching the Horizon, A History of Ames Research Center 1940-1976
+ Adventures with Apollo
+ Clues To Origin Of The Moon Will Come From Study Of The First Lunar Sample
+ Scientists Will Look For Evidence of Life in Lunar Samples at Ames
 

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