Astronauts
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Non-preferred terms: Cosmonauts; Space ships--Pilots
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Michael B. Gordon Mercury Photographs Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2011-10-27
Content Description
The Michael B. Gordon Mercury Photographs Collection is a small collection consisting of 11 4x5" black-and-white photographs depicting the preparation and recovery of the Mercury-Redstone 3 flight of Alan B. Shepard in 1961. The images show: technicians assisting Shepard with his spacesuit prior to launch; Shepard seated in Freedom 7 capsule prior to launch; Shepard being hoisted aboard Sikorsky S-58 helicopter after Freedom 7 splashdown; a Sikorsky S-58 helicopter recovering Freedom 7...
Dates:
1961 May 5
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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
Clark C. McClelland Snoopy Space Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2025-07-15
Content Description
The Clark C. McClelland Snoopy Space Collection is a small collection comprised of documents produced by NASA during the Apollo Program featuring the Peanuts cartoon characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown. The collection includes five stickers, ten motivational posters, one booklet, and a certificate, all dated between 1967-1969.The stickers all depict Snoopy in a space suit and promote Project Apollo. One reads "Apollo VIP" with an illustration of Snoopy on the Moon. Another reads...
Dates:
1967-1969
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
John D. Pearce NASA and Space Shuttle Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2014-10-09
Contents of the Collection
The John D. Pearce NASA and Space Shuttle Collection is comprised primarily of visual materials, including photographs, negatives, and slides, as well as assorted ephemera, such as decals, press badges, NASA publications, and clippings. Materials mainly relate to NASA and Space Shuttle events, launches, and news from 1981-1989. The bulk of the collection is housed within three albums and contains the majority of the visual materials, although there is a small amount of loose...
Dates:
1963-1989
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Michael A. Poirier Apollo 13 Recovery Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2009-04-15
Contents of the Collection
The Michael Poirier Apollo 13 Recovery Collection is a small collection comprised of film footage and photomechanical prints relating to the recovery of the Apollo 13 spacecraft by the USS Iwo Jima on April 17 1970. The film footage, which was shot by Poirier and is about ten minutes long, depicts both a SIMEX (simulation exercise) of the Apollo 13 recovery using a boilerplate Command Module (CM), as well as the actual recovery of the real CM. Several shots feature U.S. Navy...
Dates:
1970
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Deke Slayton ASTP Joint Operations Checklist
Collection — Box Slayton Collections Box 1, Folder: 2021-11-18
Identifier: 2021-11-18-1
Content Description
The Deke Slayton ASTP Joint Operations Checklist consists of a single item: Slayton's personal copy of the "ASTP Reference Joint Operations Checklist," published by NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, March 31, 1975. The checklist is an 80-page document with guidelines for docking and undocking the Apollo spacecraft with the Soyuz capsule during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. It also covers such topics as photo, television and movie ops; waste management; a fungi experiment; a microbial...
Dates:
1975 March 31
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Deke Slayton Mercury Program Notebook
Collection — Box Slayton Collections Box 1
Identifier: 2011-12-03
Content Description
The Deke Slayton Mercury Program Notebook is a small collection consisting of a single item: a spiral bound "steno"-style notebook of handwritten notes by Deke Slayton during the Mercury Program. Written on the cover is the text, “Astro Affairs Organization of 1st Astronaut Office." The contents of the notebook illustrate the organizational structure of the department, problems that needed to be addressed, future program plans, and policies that were to be published. Each of these topics are...
Dates:
circa 1958-1963
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Deke Slayton Notebooks and Letter
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2008-04-12-4
Content Description
The Deke Slayton Notebooks and Letter is a small collection consisting of planning notebooks used by Slayton ranging in date from 1963 to 1992 and letter that he received in 1959. The notebooks are primarily pocket-sized planners recording Slayton's activities from 1963-1976 and from 1991-1992. There are 181 notebooks in total, most of which cover one month of a year, arranged in small boxes each covering one calendar year with twelve notebooks per box. One notebook, not housed...
Dates:
1959-1976, 1991-1992
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Charles L. Soellner NASA Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1992-04-03
Overview
The Charles L. Soellner NASA Collection documents the space programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The documents date from 1959 to 1975. The bulk of the materials are photographs and photomechancial prints mass-produced by NASA. The visual documentation and ephemera related to manned spaceflight missions were collected and assembled together in scrapbooks by Soellner.
Dates:
1959-1975
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Space Exploration Posters and Lithographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2019-00-00-125
Abstract
The Space Exploration Posters and Lithographs Collection is an artifical collection consisting of oversize textual and visual materials relating to aerospace, rocketry, astronauts, and the National Air and Space Administration (NASA), ranging from 1961-2006.
Dates:
1961-2006
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives