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This collection documents the history of the Atlas Missile program at Convair/General Dynamics.

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The Dennis Jenkins Digital Only Space Collection contains space related images collected by Mr. Jenkins and covers all major American space programs.

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These images are from NASA and focus on projects that were launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Caneveral. They originally appeared on this site: https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos and were gathered by a researcher who gave them to the San Diego Air and Space Museum. They have embedded metadata which gives a detailed description of the contents of the image.

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The collection contains information on the life and work of Richard Kuhn. Included in the collection are various media types dating from approx. 1943 to 1978 on the effectiveness of flap systems in deflecting propeller slipstreams and wind tunnel subsonic and transonic aerodynamic research at Langley.

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The collection contains 92 manuscripts, written/compiled between the early twentieth century and early twenty-first century. These manuscripts range from television and movie scripts to flight logs, accident report, personal recollections, and biographies/memoirs. Subjects include (but are not limited to) early flight, World War I, World War II, women avioators, air ships, and flight testing.

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The collection contains materials collected by and related to Ernest Allen Millar during his career working on the Atlas Rocket program. The collections contains certificates and documents, but is mostly photographs.

Abstract The collection contains photographs, negatives, documents, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, maps, patches, postcards, and stickers. Binder titles and description notes were created by the owner. While serving as a Helicopter Rescue Swimmer and Designated Naval Air Crewman in April 1981, Gordon came to volunteer at the “old Aerospace Museum,” and except for short stints at other museums, he had been working and/or volunteering in one department or another for 35 years. His Navy career...

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Herbert Schaefer worked at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) as an aerospace engineer. He joined NASA and finalized his divorce in 1960, working on launching satellites at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), eventually becoming Chief of the Systems, Performance, and Analysis Office for the Centaur Program.

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Walter Marty "Wally" Schirra, Jr., was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury.

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Each preassembled kit contains printed material, photographic material and posters, phonographic records, canisters of film strips, and booklets. Material dates to the late 1960s and early 1970s and covers themes of manned space exploration.