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.…

After the end of the Apollo missions, NASA's next adventure into space was the marned spaceflight of Skylab

This 1970 photograph shows Skylab's Ultraviolet (UV) Stellar Astronomy experiment, a scientific airlock-based…

This photograph shows a telescopic camera for ultraviolet star photography for Skylab's Ultraviolet Panorama…

This Saturn V S-II (second) stage is being lifted into position for a test at the Vehicle Assembly Building…

In 1973, Skylab, America's first space station, was launched aboard a two-stage Saturn V vehicle

This illustration shows general characteristics of the Skylab with callouts of its major components

In this artist's concept from 1970, propulsion concepts such as the Nuclear Shuttle and Space Tug are shown…

This is a photo of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module, Falcon, on the lunar surface

This is the Apollo 14 mission insignia or logo

Stuart A. Roosa, Apollo 14 Command Module pilot, undergoes a final space suit check prior to liftoff

The moon bound Apollo 14, carrying a crew of three astronauts: Mission commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., Command…

Apollo 14 Mission Commander, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., waves to well-wishers as he and astronauts Stuart A.…

This is the official three-member crew portrait of the Apollo 15 (SA-510)

During the Apollo 15 launch activities in the launch control center's firing room 1 at Kennedy Space Center…

The fifth marned lunar landing mission, Apollo 15 (SA-510), carrying a crew of three astronauts: Mission…

This is a view from sequential photographs of the Apollo 14 liftoff taken by a remote camera atop the…

This photograph was taken during the Apollo 15 mission on the lunar surface

This is a good cutaway diagram of the Saturn V launch vehicle showing the three stages, the instrument unit…

This 1968 cutaway drawing illustrates the Saturn IB launch vehicle with its two booster stages, the S-IB…

This photograph shows activities during assembly of the Skylab cluster at the Vehicle Assembly/Checkout…

This illustration depicts the Skylab-1 and Skylab-2 mission sequence

This image illustrates major areas of emphasis of the Skylab Program

This artist's concept depicts the separation of the Skylab payload shroud

The Apollo 16 Command Module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 27, 1972 after an 11-day moon…

This is an Apollo 17 onboard photo of an astronaut beside the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) on the lunar surface

In this Apollo 17 onboard photo, Mission Commander Eugene A. Cernan adjusts the U.S. flag deployed upon the…

This photograph is a montage of astronaut crews for the three Skylab missions with simple biographical data…

This photograph describes details of the telescopic camera for ultraviolet star photography for Skylab's…

This artist's concept is a cutaway illustration of the Skylab with the Command/Service Module being docked to…

This early chart conceptualizes the use of two parallel Solid Rocket Motor Boosters in conjunction with three…

Astronaut Weitz assists Astronaut Kerwin with blood pressure cuff

The launch of the Atlas-Centaur carrying the Pioneer G (11) spacecraft on April 5, 1973

This chart describes the Skylab student experiment X-Rays from Jupiter, proposed by Jearne Leventhal of…

This photograph shows the launch of the SA-513, a modified unmarned two-stage Saturn V vehicle for the…

On July 3, 1974 NASA commemorated the 5th anniversary of the Apollo 11, first lunar landing mission, at the…

On June 4, 1974, 5 years after the successful Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, commander Neil Armstrong…

The idea that ultimately became Skylab first surfaced in 1962 as a proposal to convert a spent Saturn upper…

This image is an artist's concept of the Skylab in orbit with callouts of its major components

This image is an artist's concept of the Skylab in orbit

This Skylab-4 onboard photograph depicts Astronaut Gerald Carr testing Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment (M509)…

This montage illustrates the various configurations and missions of the three classes of the Saturn vehicles…

At its founding, the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) inherited the Army’s Jupiter and Redstone test…

At its founding, the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) inherited the Army’s Jupiter and Redstone test…

At its founding, the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) inherited the Army’s Jupiter and Redstone test…

At its founding, the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) inherited the Army’s Jupiter and Redstone test…

The Space Shuttle represented an entirely new generation of space vehicle, the world's first reusable…

This diagram illustrates the Space Shuttle mission sequence

As early as September 1972, the Marshall Space Flight Center arnounced plans for a series of 20 water-entry…

The LAGEOS I (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) was developed and launched by the Marshall Space Flight Center on…

At its founding, the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) inherited the Army’s Jupiter and Redstone test…

This is a cutaway illustration of the Space Shuttle external tank (ET) with callouts

This image illustrates the solid rocket motor (SRM)/solid rocket booster (SRB) configuration

Constructed in 1964, the S-IC Static Test Stand was designed to develop and test the first stage (S-IC) of…

The Space Shuttle Orbiter simulator is hoisted into the giant dynamics test stand at NASA's Marshall Space…

A workman reams holes to the proper size and aligment in the Space Shuttle Main Engine's main injector body…

This photograph shows an inside view of a liquid hydrogen tank for the Space Shuttle external tank (ET) Main…

This photograph shows the liquid hydrogen tank and liquid oxygen tank for the Space Shuttle external tank…

The solid rocket booster (SRB) structural test article is being installed in the Solid Rocket Booster Test…

This illustration is a cutaway of the solid rocket booster (SRB) sections with callouts