Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Biographical Information Files - Assorted Groups and Topics
Sub-Group
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Biographical Files are an artifical collection with textual and photographic files on prominent people, groups, and events in the space and aviation industries. Over 1500 individuals and a couple dozen groups are represented with textual material such as original and photocopies of newspaper clippings, articles, obituaries and other printed ephemera such as brochures and tickets, as well as photographic and digital prints and photocopied images. Materials come from various sources,...
Dates:
20th Century
Davenport, Arthur K. -- oral history interview, 2019 June 26
File
Interview Summary
Engineer Arthur K. Davenport is interviewed about his career in the aviation and aerospace industries. He discusses his work at Hamilton Standard during the 1960s and 1970s, focusing in particular on the design and development of the Apollo spacesuit’s Life Support System backpack. He also discusses his subsequent engineering career with Boeing and his experiences as a Designated Engineering Representative (DER) for the Federal Aviation Administration. Davenport’s wife (Wendy) and son...
Dates:
2019 June 26
Nancy S. Hammond Space Shuttle Programs Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-09-20
Contents of the Collection
The Nancy S. Hammond Space Shuttle Programs Collection documents the career of Nancy Hammond while employed with the Boeing Aerospace Company on NASA contracts. Hammond was part of a group responsible for tracking the progress of scheduled tasks to complete the Inertial Upper Stage rocket to be attached to the TDRS-A (Tracking, Data, and Relay) Satellite to be launched on the Space Shuttle STS-6. This collection, which dates from 1969-1993, consists of printed ephemera, manual drafts,...
Dates:
1969-1977, 1981-1993; Majority of material found within 1981-1990
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Lawrence, Wendy -- oral history interview, 2017 June 30
File
Interview Summary
Astronaut Wendy Lawrence is interviewed about her military service and spaceflight career during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. She describes key assignments from her U.S. Navy service, such as her time as a helicopter pilot and her time as a physics instructor at the Naval Academy. She then discusses her experiences as a mission specialist with NASA’s Space Shuttle program and shares details about her four spaceflight missions: STS-67, STS-86, STS-91, and STS-114. Topics discussed...
Dates:
2017 June 30
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- Type
- Archival Record 3
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Astronautics 2
- Astronauts 2
- Boeing Company -- Employees 2
- Space shuttles 2
- African Americans in aeronautics 1
- Air scouts 1
- Artificial satellites 1
- Astronautics and state -- United States 1
- Boeing Model 307 Prototype Crash, 1939 1
- Boeing Model 747 Family 1
- Boeing-Vertol H-46 Family 1
- Cachets (Philately) 1
- Engineers 1
- Flight attendants 1
- Flight crews 1
- Flight schools 1
- Helicopter pilots 1
- Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) 1
- Moon -- Exploration 1
- Outer space -- Exploration 1
- Payloads (Aerospace engineering) 1
- Space Shuttle mission STS-114 1
- Space Shuttle mission STS-67 1
- Space Shuttle mission STS-86 1
- Space programs 1
- Space sciences 1
- Space shuttle mission STS-91 1
- Space shuttles -- Payloads 1
- Space suits 1
- Space vehicles 1
- Tokyo (Japan) 1
- Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System 1
- Women air pilots 1
- Women in aeronautics 1
- Women in astronautics 1
- cartoons (humorous images) 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- correspondence 1
- covers (philately) 1
- decals 1
- maps (documents) 1
- memorandums 1
- negatives (photographs) 1
- notebooks 1
- notes (documents) 1
- pamphlets 1
- photographic prints 1
- posters 1
- presentations (communicative events) 1
- press kits 1
- press releases 1
- printed ephemera 1
- progress reports 1
- slides (photographs) 1
- technical reports 1 + ∧ less
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