NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama develops the agency's rockets, from the Saturn V to the Space Launch System: engines, test stands and the people who built them.
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The 1950s
All 34 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 1950s
This historical photograph is of the Apollo Space Program Leaders
1950-01-01
A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand during the late 1950s
1950-01-01
This photograph shows the installation of a Mercury capsule and escape system on top of a booster prior to…
1950-01-01
The Jupiter rocket was designed and developed by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). ABMA launched the…
1957-03-01
Installation of a Jupiter missile in ABMA (Army Ballistic Missile Agency) West Test Stand, Jan. 16, 1957
1957-01-16
America’s first scientific satellite, the Explorer I, carried the radiation detection experiment designed by…
1957-10-03
Jupiter-C Missile No. 27 assembly at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), Redstone Arsenal, in…
1958-01-31
Explorer 1 atop a Jupiter-C in gantry
1958-01-31
The 1960s
All 327 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 1960s
NASA officials, (left to right) Charles W. Mathews; Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director, Marshall Space Flight…
1960-07-16
The Little Joe launch vehicle for the LJ1 mission on the launch pad at the wallops Flight Facility, Wallops…
1960-01-21
Installation of the Mercury capsule on Redstone booster at the Redstone Test Stand
1960-01-01
The launch of the Little Joe booster for the LJ1B mission on the launch pad from the wallops Flight Facility…
1960-01-21
This photograph shows the Saturn V assembled LOX (Liquid Oxygen) and fuel tanks ready for transport from the…
1960-01-01
This photograph shows the Saturn-I first stage (S-1 stage) being transported to the test stand for a static…
1960-01-01
This photograph shows a Saturn V first stage (S-1C). This stage was assembled at the Manufacturing…
1960-01-01
The powerful J-2 engine is prominent in this photograph of a Saturn V Third Stage (S-IVB) resting on a…
1960-01-01
The 1970s
All 101 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 1970s
The third marned lunar landing mission, Apollo 13 (SA-508), with three astronauts: Mission commander James A.…
1970-04-11
After the end of the Apollo missions, NASA's next adventure into space was the marned spaceflight of Skylab
1970-11-18
This 1970 photograph shows Skylab's Ultraviolet (UV) Stellar Astronomy experiment, a scientific airlock-based…
1970-01-01
This photograph shows a telescopic camera for ultraviolet star photography for Skylab's Ultraviolet Panorama…
1970-01-01
This Saturn V S-II (second) stage is being lifted into position for a test at the Vehicle Assembly Building…
1970-01-22
In 1973, Skylab, America's first space station, was launched aboard a two-stage Saturn V vehicle
1970-01-01
This illustration shows general characteristics of the Skylab with callouts of its major components
1970-01-01 · NASA artwork
In this artist's concept from 1970, propulsion concepts such as the Nuclear Shuttle and Space Tug are shown…
1970-01-01 · NASA artwork
The 1980s
All 134 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 1980s
This artist's concept depicts the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being positioned for release from the Space…
1980-01-01 · NASA artwork
This artist's concept depicts the Hubble Space Telescope after being released into orbit, with the high gain…
1980-01-01 · NASA artwork
This artist's concept depicts the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being raised to a vertical position in the…
1980-01-01 · NASA artwork
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a cooperative program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National…
1980-05-08
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a cooperative program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National…
1980-05-08
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a cooperative program of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National…
1980-05-08
This illustration shows the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) major configuration elements
1980-01-01 · NASA artwork
This illustration depicts the design features of the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) Support Systems Module…
1980-10-01 · NASA artwork
The 1990s
All 318 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 1990s
Using the Solar Vector Magnetograph, a solar observation facility at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center…
1990-10-01
This is a presentation of two comparison images of the Spiral Galaxy M81 in the constellation URA Major
1990-12-09
This photograph was taken during the integration of the Astro-1 mission payloads at the Kennedy Space Center…
1990-03-20
In this photograph, the instruments of the Astro-1 Observatory are erected in the cargo bay of the Columbia…
1990-12-01
Onboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia (STS-35), the various components of the Astro-1 payload are seen…
1990-12-02
Onboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia (STS-35), the various components of the Astro-1 payload are seen…
1990-12-02
This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) installed in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle…
1990-04-01
This color image of Saturn was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST's) Wide Field Camera (WFC) at…
1990-10-09
The 2000s
All 399 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 2000s
This most distant x-ray cluster of galaxies yet has been found by astronomers using Chandra X-ray Observatory…
2000-10-01
Chandra X-Ray Observatory provided this composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the…
2000-12-04
This is a color Hubble Space Telescope (HST) heritage image of supernova remnant N49, a neighboring galaxy…
2000-07-01
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured this spectacular image of G292.0+1.8, a young, oxygen-rich…
2000-03-01
The colorful streamers that float across the sky in this photo taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST)…
2000-01-01
This image is a color composite of the supernova remnant E0102-72: x-ray (blue), optical (green), and radio…
2000-11-01
This concept depicts the International Space Station in orbit following its solar array deployment by the…
2000-11-01
This image of the International Space Station in orbit was taken from the Space Shuttle Endeavour prior to…
2000-12-01
The 2010s
All 34 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 2010s
F-1 Gas Generator test
2015-09-03
JUPITER JAM
2016-06-29
KEITH ROBINSON INTERVIEWED BY JOSH BARRETT
2016-06-24
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough Visits Marshall Space Flight Center
2017-08-31
Expedition 49/50 Astronaut Shane Kimbrough briefs the press on his extended mission to the International Space Station in the Marshall Space Flight Center Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC).
2017-08-31
NASA Acting Deputy Chief Technologist Vicki Crisp and Jesse Brady Discuss an Aircraft Simulation Project
2017-08-30
2017 Student Launch Initiative Rocket Fair
2017-03-03
2017 "Mission Success is in Our Hands" program with Apollo 17 as
2017-12-07
The 2020s
All 120 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 2020s
Sample Cartridge Assembly (SCA) Project Group Photograph
2020-01-30
MSFC Building 4663, NW corner view showing entrance to Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC).
2020-05-19
Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC)
2020-05-19
Crystal Klemmer, an Aerodyne Industries engineer at Marshall, monitors the Crew-1 launch from the mission control room in Marshall’s Huntsville Operations Support Center.
2020-11-15
The Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter (LVSA) is Moved to and Loaded Onto the NASA Barge Pegasus for Transport
2020-07-17
Engineers Break SLS Rocket Propellant Tank On Purpose
2020-06-24
MSFC Director Jody Singer Reads Governor’s Proclamation Declaring July 17 as “Artemis Day
2020-07-15
A look inside the International Space Station Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. The POIC team supports science operations on the International Space Station 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For more than 20 years the POIC team has worked wi
2021-02-05
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