Originally developed to simulate lunar landing operations, after the Apollo Program the structure was converted into a drop test facility used to simulate aircraft crashes. The grid screen at the left of the facility is used as a backdrop for the impacts to allow engineers to measure angles and impact speeds.
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Image Number: L-1974-02506
Date: May 8, 1974
Tags: Drop Test Impact Test LLRF Langley Lunar Landing Research Facility
Description This image shows an aerial view of NASA Dock at Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) with four barges, (left to right) Paleamon, Promise, Poseidon, and Orion. The barges ferried Saturn IB and Saturn V stages between Marshall Space Center (MSFC); Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF); Mississippi Test Facility (MTF, currently Stennis Space Center); and Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
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Image Number: 6864889
Date: 1967
Tags: Barge MAF Michoud Assembly Facility Dock Orion Paleamon Poseidon Promise
This North-looking view shows some of the Johnson Space Center's central buildings and facilities neighboring its Project Management Facility (Building 1) from which this scene was photographed. The Houston-based Mission Control Center is in the center of the frame. Visible buildings surrounding the mall area include the Flight Operations Facility, Crew Systems Laboratory, Photographic Technology Laboratory, Technical Services shop, branch cafeteria, Mission Control Center office wing and the Central Data Office.
Image # : S82-41180
Tags: Houston Houston Mission Control Center Johnson Space Center MCC Texas
View of the Hangar and Main Gate at NASA's John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio. Formerly known as the Airplane Engine Research Laboratory (AERL) under the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA),and then renamed the Lewis Research Center, for George W. Lewis, NACA Director of Aeronautical Research. It was renamed the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in 1999. Here aircraft engines and spacecraft propulsion systems are developed and tested.
Image # : c1999-892
Tags: Airplane Engine Research Laboratory Lewis Research Center
A full moon is outdazzled by the lights of the launch gantries below on Missile Row as they stretch north along the shoreline of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Image # : PL65C-64612
Tags: CCAS Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Missile Row