United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Organization
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Jerry L. Ross papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283
Scope and Contents
The Jerry L. Ross papers document Ross' student life at Purdue, his test flight engineer work, and NASA career as an engineer and astronaut. The collection includes Purdue coursework and memorabilia; papers from Ross' work at Edwards Air Force Base, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and Test Pilot School; NASA Space Shuttle training, mission documents and mission related scrapbooks, memorabilia, and flight crew films and interviews, along with documents and maps from Ross' work on Space...
Dates:
1940 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
Space Exploration News collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 128
Scope and Contents
The Space Exploration News Collection features front page news stories relating to the Apollo 11 moon landing, John Glenn's history making orbit around the Earth on Friendship 7, the ending of the Space Shuttle Program and other monumental moments in the history of space exploration.
The original periodicals will be retained for historical value and use in displays and exhibits. The collection consists of three newspapers and one magazine.
Dates:
1962 - 2011; Other: Majority of material found within 1962 - 1969
Pierre J. Thuot papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 179
Scope and Contents
The Pierre J. Thuot papers document the three shuttle missions that Thuot flew. These were STS-36, STS-49, and STS-62. Within the collection, there is material on all three but with the main focus on STS-49. There is little information about STS-36 because it is still classified by the U.S. government. Included in the collection are over 50 color photographs of Thuot training for the Intelsat VI capture that he performed on STS-49. In addition to the photographs, included in...
Dates:
1989 - 1994
Paul J. Weitz papers
Collection — Box [restricted] 1
Identifier: MSP 172
Scope and Contents
The Paul J. Weitz papers document the time Weitz spent as an United States astronaut and as Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The papers contains eleven notebooks that were used by Weitz to record day-to-day meeting notes and tasks. The first entry is April of 1976 and the last entry is January of 1994. The notebooks contain information about The Challenger accident and Weitz's response to the incident from the day it happened and document what the administration...
Dates:
1976 - 1994
Donald E. Williams papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 12
Scope and Contents
The Donald E. Williams papers document Williams' two shuttle missions; STS-51-D and STS-34, along with memorabilia from STS-1, the first mission. Also included are various mission patches and decals. The artifacts include his flight helmet, and items used in space; gloves, knife, fork, teaspoon, and can opener.
Types of materials include: artifacts, checklists (mission), clippings, decals, memorabilia, NASA press kit, papers, mission patches, and photographs.
Dates:
1978 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1985 - 1989
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 28
- Unprocessed Material 2
- Subject
- Astronauts 17
- Color photographs 13
- Purdue University -- Alumni and alumnae 12
- Artifacts (Object genre) 10
- Correspondence 10
- Mission patches 9
- Aerospace engineering 7
- Awards 7
- Certificates 7
- Memorabilia 7
- Personal papers 7
- Black-and-white photographs 6
- Clippings (Information artifacts) 6
- Optical disks 6
- Reports 5
- Clothing 4
- Magazines (Periodicals) 4
- Scrapbooks 4
- Space flights 4
- Space shuttles--United States 4
- Textbooks 4
- VHS 4
- Air pilots, Military 3
- Audiovisual materials 3
- Books 3
- Diaries 3
- Engineers 3
- Technical reports 3
- Test pilots 3
- Women aerospace engineers 3
- Women astronauts 3
- Working papers 3
- Aeronautics 2
- Articles 2
- Astronautics 2
- Audiocassettes 2
- Checklists 2
- Color slides 2
- Commemorative coins 2
- Commemorative pins 2
- DVDs 2
- Electronic resources 2
- Letters (Correspondence) 2
- Manuals (instructional materials) 2
- Newsletters 2
- Notebooks 2
- Outer space--Exploration 2
- Plaques (Flat objects) 2
- Posters 2
- Printed ephemera 2
- Publications (Documents) 2
- Space shuttles--Propulsion systems 2
- Space vehicles--Landing--Moon 2
- Textiles 2
- Transcripts 2
- Women engineers 2
- Women in science 2
- Acetate film 1
- Aerial photographs 1
- Astronautics--Research 1
- Astronautics--United States--History 1
- Astronauts--1960-1970 1
- Astronauts--1970-1980 1
- Astronauts--Training of--United States 1
- Audiotapes 1
- Aviators 1
- Badges 1
- Business communication 1
- Buttons (information artifacts) 1
- Centaur rocket 1
- Challenger (Spacecraft) 1
- Challenger (Spacecraft)--Accidents 1
- College presidents 1
- College student orientation 1
- Columbia (Spacecraft)--Accidents--Investigation 1
- Cords 1
- Corduroy 1
- Data sheet 1
- Decals 1
- Digital images 1
- Editorial cartoons--moon landing 1
- Engineering 1
- Experimental Test Pilot 1
- Films 1
- First day covers 1
- Flight logs 1
- Floppy disks 1
- Food (space) 1
- Handbooks 1
- Industrial management 1
- International Space Station 1
- International Space Station--Service module 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 1
- Lanyards 1
- Logs (Records) 1
- Lunar excursion module 1
- Lunar landing sites 1
- Lunar rovers 1
- Lunar roving vehicles 1
- Lunar surface vehicles 1 + ∧ less
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