National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Photo showing the Saturn SA-4 projected trajectory upon launch and flight in space.

Portrait of James E. Webb, Administrator of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He was named to this position in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy and led the U. S. space agency during the manned space flight programs and then through other important scientific programs such as televising the moon's surface with the U. S. Ranger spacecraft and sending photos back from Mars with U. S. Mariner spacecraft.

Photo of Cape Kennedy (Cape Canaveral) taken with a Hasselblad camera from Gemini VII.

Photo of geomorphology and drainage patterns of East Africa taken with Hasselblad camera from Gemini IV.

Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg (left) and James E. Webb, head of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, meet in Mr. Webb's office.

Ham, the first chimpanzee ever to ride a rocket into space is being examined by doctors in preparation for his flight. Ham, a 37-pound chimp, will ride in the Mercury capsule atop the Mercury-Redstone booster. This is one of a series of launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida scheduled by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in its manned orbital flight program.

James E. Webb (left), former head of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is shown at the viewing area at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during the flight of Apollo 10. Others in the photo are unidentified.

Carrying the first commercial satellite payload in the history of the STS program, and the first four-man crew in a single launch in the history of space flight, space shuttle Columbia lifts away from Launch Pad 39A on schedule at 7:19 A.M., beginning STS-5, the first operational flight for the Shuttle system.

Apollo II Command Module Pilot Michael Collins addresses the large crowd assembled for the fifth anniversary of the launching of the first manned lunar landing mission from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Cape Canaveral). Launch Complex 39 from which Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins began their historic journey will be dedicated as a National Landmark.

Photo of the crew of the first manned Apollo flight: Edward H White II, Virgil I. Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee. All astronauts were killed in a fire on the Apollo rocket.