NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photos from the 1950s
34 photos, in date order. NASA photographs are not copyrighted in the United States. About the collection
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
Explorer 1 satellite. This photo was taken during the installation of Explorer-1, the first United States'…
1958-01-01
Dr. von Braun inside the blockhouse during the launch of the Jupiter C/Explorer III in March 1958
1958-03-01
Activities in a blockhouse during the launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958
1958-01-31
This illustration shows the main characteristics of the Jupiter C launch vehicle and its payload, the…
1958-01-31 · NASA artwork
Juno I, a slightly modified Jupiter-C launch vehicle, shortly before the January 31, 1958 launch of America's…
1958-01-31
Launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 31, 1958
1958-01-31
In January 1958, a modified Redstone rocket lifted the first American satellite into orbit just 3 months…
1958-01-01
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Dr. William Pickering, Dr. James van Allen of the State University of…
1958-01-31
Millions of people on Earth watched via television as a message for all mankind was delivered to the Mare…
1959-07-21
The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in…
1959-11-14
Astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA…
1959-04-27
Monkey Baker, payload of Jupiter (AM-18), poses on a model of the Jupiter vehicle, May 29, 1959
1959-05-29
On May 28, 1959, a Jupiter Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile provided by a U.S. Army team in Redstone…
1959-05-28
The capsule ready to be installed in the nose cone of Jupiter, AM-18, for pre-flight test, May 18, 1959
1959-05-18
A squirrel monkey, Able, is being ready for placement into a capsule for a preflight test of Jupiter, AM-18…
1959-05-18
Jupiter (AM-18), suborbital primate flight with Able and Baker as its payload, being ready for launch, May…
1959-05-28
In this photo, (left to right) Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) Missile Firing Laboratory Chief Dr. Kurt…
1959-01-21
This image is a cutaway illustration of the Explorer I satellite with callouts
1959-10-21 · NASA artwork
Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on…
1959-04-27
Astronaut John H. Glenn, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April…
1959-04-27
Astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by…
1959-04-27
The group portrait of the original seven astronauts for the Mercury Project
1959-04-27
An Atlas launch vehicle carrying the Big Joe capsule leaves its launching pad on a 2,000-mile ballistic…
1959-09-01
In this 1959 photograph, technicians prepare tail sections for Mercury-Redstone vehicles in Building 4706 at…
1959-01-01
This photograph depicts installation of the Mercury capsule and escape system on top of a booster prior to…
1959-01-01
This image is of the Crab Nebula in visible light photographed by the Hale Observatory optical telescope in…
1959-01-01