United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Organization
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
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
Metz, Iva L. -- oral history interview, 2019 November 1
File
Interview Summary
Iva Metz is interviewed about her life and her secretarial career in the aviation and aerospace industries from the 1940s through the 1980s. She discusses her professional experiences working for the U.S. Navy, the Cessna Aircraft Company, the Boeing Aircraft Company, and North American Aviation. The interview focuses in particular on her time at NASA and her involvement with the space program. Iva also touches on her husband’s (Homer) career in the military and with Boeing on various...
Dates:
2019 November 1
Series III. Aeronautical Research Files, 1916-1997
Series
Scope and Contents
The Aeronautical Research Files is the largest of all the series in the Stine Collection, consisting of about 31 cubic feet of material. Nine subseries make up this grouping: Subseries A. Aircraft, 1916-1987; Subseries B. Facilities, 1953-1997; Subseries C. International Programs, 1920-1993; Subseries D. Rockets and Missiles, 1924-1996; Subseries E. Satellites, 1957-1995; Subseries F. Spacecraft and Missions, 1946-1986; Subseries G. Space Vehicles, 1960-1993; Subseries H. Space – General,...
Dates:
1916-1997
Series V. Lear Jet Corporation, 1960-1974, 1984-1989, 1991-1992, 1999, undated
Series
Scope and Contents: Lear Jet Corporation
Series V: Lear Jet Corporation (LJC) primarily documents the development, production, and distribution of the Learjet Model 23 and Model 24, small and fast executive transport jets, with a lesser degree of coverage about the Lear Liner Model 40. Additionally there is a relatively small amount of information about LJC’s Stereo 8 Division, which designed, developed, and produced the 8-track audio tape cassette player for home, automobile, and personal use. The...
Dates:
1960-1974, 1984-1989, 1991-1992, 1999, undated
Series V. Visual and Audiovisual Materials, circa 1940s-1997
Series
Scope and Contents
This series has broken into three sections: Subseries A. 35mm Slides, 1946-1992; Subseries; B. Negatives, 1952-1974; and Subseries C. Audiovisual materials, circa 1940s-1995.The first subseries consists of roughly 3,000 slides taken between 1950 and 1995 depicting various model rocketry competitions and activities that Stine was involved with during his lifetime, as well as images related to crewed space flight, astronomy, and various slides form lectures. The titles in the...
Dates:
circa 1940s-1997
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Von Braun, Gilruth, Mueller, and Phillips with inscription: "Our deep appreciation for your outstanding contribution to the success of Apollo 11"Color photograph labelled “The Early Years” with five small photos from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz missions. Black-and-white photograph of astronauts John M. “Mike” Longe and George D. "Pinky" Nelson taken in the Museum of Flight Great Gallery and used in the January/February 1989 issue...
Dates:
20th Century
Yi, Soyeon -- oral history interview, 2017 November 28
File
Interview Summary
Astronaut Soyeon Yi is interviewed about her engineering career and her experiences as the first Korean citizen to participate in a spaceflight mission. She discusses her academic work in mechanical engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) during the early 2000s and explains her motivations for applying to the Korean Astronaut Program during her PhD studies. Yi then describes her spaceflight experiences, including her training in Russia with Roscomos, her...
Dates:
2017 November 28
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