Moon surface photo taken with Lunar Orbiter IV
This photo taken by Lunar Orbiter IV shows Mare Orientale, the dark flat basin at the left edge of the photo and Mare Veris, the dark irregular area.
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Moon surface photo taken with Lunar Orbiter IV
An enormous and complex lunar feature never before viewed from above was photographed by wide-angle lens as NASA's Lunar Orbiter IV spacecraft neared the end of its survey mission of the Moon. It is Orientale Basin, centered at 90 degrees West longitude and 15 degrees South latitude on the extreme western edge of the Moon's visible side. Its circular outer scarp, the Cordillera Mountains, is just over 600 miles in diameter. In this photograph, the Orientale Basin is at the center.
Moon surface photo taken with Lunar Orbiter IV
This is a portion of the Lunar Orbiter IV telephoto frame 172 taken by the spacecraft on its 31st orbit during its broad photographic survey of the Moon. When this frame was exposed, the spacecraft was traveling in a northerly direction which is towards the top of the picture when the edge data are positioned on the left. The spacecraft altitude was 1,870 miles above the lunar surface. The approximate selenographic coordinates for the center of the area shown are 68 degrees West, 43 degrees South.
Moon surface photo taken with Lunar Orbiter IV
An area of lunar surface displaying evidence of a very complicated geological history is seen in this portion of a Lunar Orbiter IV telephone picture made near the western edge of the Moon's visible surface. The large crater at right center is Riccioli, about 100 miles in diameter. Much of the area is covered by a blanket of debris deposited when the Mare Orientale, many miles further west, was formed by the impact of a giant meteorite.
Scale model of the Saturn I launch vehicle
Photograph showing a one-third scaled model of the Saturn I Block II launch vehicle. Ground wind investigations form an indispensible part of the painstaking research program that lies behind successful flights of launch vehicles of all sizes, and the National Aeronautics And Space Administration Langley Research Center has specialized in such wind-tunnel studies for many years. Here, in a cooperative program with the George C.
Satellite testing at Langley Research Center
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration conducted ground inflation tests on a 100-foot diameter, inflatable spherical satellite in a Naval hangar facility near Weeksville, North Carolina. The ground tests were preliminary to the orbiting of Echo I from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 12, 1960. Echo I, the world's first passive communications satellite, was designed and developed by the NASA Langley Research Center.
Model of the Apollo manned lunar spacecraft
Photograph showing a one-fourth scale Apollo manned lunar spacecraft model in the Impacting Structures Facility at Langley Research Center, Virginia. Investigations of earth landing characteristics are conducted on this model. Test conditions are being selected to simulate parachute letdown, although a parachute is not attached to the model in the photo. The model is swung by an overhead device to obtain the desired landing velocities. Landing tests are being made to determine accelerations and motions during sand landings of the spacecraft.
Conducting Space Flight Simulations Testing
Devices like the Rendezvous Docking Simulator in this photo at the NASA Langley Research Center are being developed by NASA scientists to explore, under controlled laboratory conditions, many complex aspects of space flight. The facility will enable scientists to determine man's ability to complete a rendezvous in either Earth of lunar orbit during the final 200 feet of the docking maneuver. Two research pilots ride in a full-scale model of the Gemini spacecraft and, by operating its controls, bring it into gentle, final contact with a target vehicle.
Apollo/Saturn V rocket
A photograph of the Apollo/Saturn V transfer from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
Model of Manned Orbiting Research Laboratory
A 1/30th scale model of a proposed Manned Orbiting Research Laboratory (MORL) system under extensive investigation at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center, Virginia. The MORL system, capable of year-long missions, could provide scientists with many opportunities for scientific and engineering research which cannot be performed on Earth. The MORL is based on maximum use of NASA space systems being developed or in existence. The study model shows one concept of a Manned Orbiting Research Laboratory with the Saturn IV stage of the Saturn I launch vehicle.