Choose a category to browse. Early Program Development Early Rocketry High Energy Astronomy Observation (HEAO) History of Chandra X-Ray Observatory History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Launch Vehicles Mercury Project Origin of MSFC Saturn/Apollo Program Skylab Spacelab Space Station Wernher von Braun Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC's) History Gallery provides a tour of images that showcase the beginnings of space exploration, including pre-NASA U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama; the activation of MSFC as a NASA field Center, headed by Dr. Wernher von Braun, in July 1960; and the development of a space vehicle from conception through production and operation. Marshall has managed many programs, such as: Mercury-Redstone vehicle that boosted America's first astronaut, Alan B. Shepard, on a sub orbital flight in 1961 Saturn rockets, the largest of which boosted man to the Moon in 1969 Lunar Roving Vehicle (1971) for transporting astronauts on the lunar surface Skylab (1973); the United States' first crewed orbiting space station Three High Energy Astronomy Observatories (1977, 1978, and 1979) to study stars and star-like objects Hubble Space Telescope (1990) Chandra X-ray Observatory (1999). MSFC-developed propulsion systems that unleashed almost six million pounds of thrust to launch America's first Space Shuttle in 1981. This gallery provides a look at MSFC's past leaders and the outstanding accomplishments that sent man to the Moon and beyond.

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