S87-28666 (March 1987) --- Millie Hughes-Fulford, STS-40/SLS-1 payload specialist, stands near the Echocardiograph on Rack 6 of the SLS-1 module, during a rehearsal of experimentation scheduled for her spaceflight.

1.8m Space Station Centrifuge N-244 High Bay (ISF)

Harriers AV-8B (NASA-704) and AV-8C (NASA-719) in flight formation

Vertical Motion Simulator VMS-7600 Computer Lab in N-243.

McDonnell Douglas Hub (Ultra-High Bypass) Model and SAAB Wake Rake Test 14ft W.T. Test-060-1-14, Turbo Fan Configuration

This photo shows the Shuttle tile flight test fixture under the wing of a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration WP-3D aircraft.

All-Body Hypersonic Vehicle: Experimental Shadowgraph

NASA 834, an F-14 Navy Tomcat, seen here in flight, was used at Dryden in 1986 and 1987 in a program known as the Variable-Sweep Transition Flight Experiment (VSTFE). This program explored laminar flow on variable sweep aircraft at high subsonic speeds. An F-14 aircraft was chosen as the carrier vehicle for the VSTFE program primarily because of its variable-sweep capability, Mach and Reynolds number capability, availability, and favorable wing pressure distribution. The variable sweep outer-panels of the F-14 aircraft were modified with natural laminar flow gloves to provide not only smooth surfaces but also airfoils that can produce a wide range of pressure distributions for which transition location can be determined at various flight conditions and sweep angles. Glove I, seen here installed on the upper surface of the left wing, was a "cleanup" or smoothing of the basic F-14 wing, while Glove II was designed to provide specific pressure distributions at Mach 0.7. Laminar flow research continued at Dryden with a research program on the NASA 848 F-16XL, a laminar flow experiment involving a wing-mounted panel with millions of tiny laser cut holes drawing off turbulent boundary layer air with a suction pump.

Artist: Carter Emmart 'The Case for Mars' conference artwork (Mission to Mars) NOTE; for government educational use only -

ISF Space Station Mock up @ MAFC (McGowen)

Harriers AV-8B (NASA-704) and AV-8C (NASA-719) in flight formation

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the paylaod fairing of the Delta 182 launch vehicle is carefully moved into place as encapsulation procedures continue on the Palapa B2-P communications satellite at Launch Complex 17, Pad B. Palapa is scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral for the government of Indonesia. Liftoff of Delta 182 and Palapa is scheduled for March 20. Photo Credit: NASA

aerial of the N-229A. N-231, N-234, N-238, N-242

CFD Composite: Aerospace Plane, Cray-2, Space Shuttle (Ref: AC85-0002-6.1)

Shuttle crew escape systems test is conducted by astronauts Steven R. Nagel (left) and Manley L. (Sonny) Carter in JSC One Gravity Mockup and Training Facilities Bldg 9A crew compartment trainer (CCT). Nagel and Carter are evaluating methods for crew escape during Space Shuttle controlled gliding flight. JSC test was done in advance of tests scheduled for facilities in California and Utah. Here, Carter serves as test subject evaluating egress positioning for the tractor rocket escape method - one of the two systems currently being closely studied by NASA.

1.8m Space Station Centrifuge N-244 High Bay (ISF) International Space Facility

The Peenemunde Rocket Team reunited on the steps of Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC) Headquarter Building 4200 for a reunion. The Peenemunde Rocket team were first assembled in Germany prior to World War II. They came to the United States at the end of the War and became the nucleus of the United States Army's rocket program.

S88-25408 (8 Dec 1987) --- James O. Schlosser (left), JSC crew systems branch employee responsible for crew equipment development, gives a briefing on the crew equipment baselined for STs-26 as astronaut James P. Bagian models the new gear. Included in the package are a partial pressure suit, harness, parachute, life raft and survival gear. The deomonstration took place at the Naval Weapons Center in China Lake, CA.

S87-44950 --- Group 12, 1987 Astronaut Class, candidates (ASCANs) N. Jan Davis (left) and Mae C. Jemison freefloat during the seconds of microgravity created aboard the KC-135 NASA 930 aircraft's parabolic flight. Davis and Jemison, two of the recently-named ASCANs, were taking a familiarization flight aboard the KC-135 "zero gravity" aircraft. Photo credit: NASA

1.8m Space Station Centrifuge N-244 High Bay (ISF) International Space Facility

A forward segment is being lowered into the Transient Pressure Test Article (TPTA) test stand at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) east test area. The TPTA test stand, 14-feet wide, 27-feet long, and 33-feet high, was built in 1987 to provide data to verify the sealing capability of the redesign solid rocket motor (SRM) field and nozzle joints. The test facility applies pressure, temperature, and external loads to a short stack of solid rocket motor hardware. The simulated SRM ignition pressure and temperature transients are achieved by firing a small amount of specially configured solid propellant. The pressure transient is synchronized with external programmable dynamic loads that simulate lift off loads at the external tank attach points. Approximately one million pounds of dead weight on top of the test article simulates the weight of the other Shuttle elements.

Artist: Carter Emmart 'The Case for Mars' conference artwork (Mission to Mars) NOTE; for government educational use only -

S87-35313 (15 May 1987)--- This artist's rendering illustrates a Mars Sample Return mission under study at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). As currently envisioned, the spacecraft would be launched in the mid to late 1990's into Earth-orbit by a space shuttle, released from the shuttle's cargo bay and propelled toward Mars by an upper-stage engine. A lander (left background) would separate from an orbiting vehicle (upper right) and descend to the planet's surface. The lander's payload would include a robotic rover (foreground), which would spend a year moving about the Martian terrain collecting scientifically significant rock and soil samples. The rover would then return to the lander and transfer its samples to a small rocket that would carry them into orbit and rendezvous with the orbiter for a return to Earth. As depicted here the rover consists of three two-wheeled cabs, and is fitted with a stereo camera vision system and tool-equipped arms for sample collection. The Mars Sample Return studies are funded by NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications.

Date: Feb 11, 1987 Photographer: CFD Reynolds Shear Stress: Horseshoe Vortex and Bursting Process Turbulent Boundry Layer (Vertical Wire)

AV-8B (NASA-704) (VSRA) Crows Landing Precision Hover Test

McDonnell Douglas Hub (Ultra-High Bypass) Model and SAAB Wake Rake Test 14ft W.T. Test-060-1-14, Turbo Fan Configuration

General Dynamics E-7 Full-scale STOVL fighter model fabrication at Ames Model Shop

Artwork: Bell Textron Co. Bell Textron Tilt Rotor folding swept wing and Forward Swept Wing Configurations (Bell-030355 Military High Speed Tilt Rotor)

S87-45891 (9 Oct. 1987) --- Astronaut Curtis L. Brown Jr., pilot.

Dutch Netherlands testing of Boeing 360 Vertol Rotor: Full Test

S87-28147 (26 Feb 1987) --- Astronaut David C. Hilmers sits in the rear station of a NASA T-38 jet aircraft prior to departure of the STS 26 crew from Ellington Field, destination Kennedy Space Center for interfacing with flight hardware which is undergoing preparations. Hilmers is one of three mission specialists for the flight.

NASA AMES Photographers N-258 NAS DEDICATION CEREMONY. VIP speakers Ames Director Ballhaus, Assoc. Admin. OAST Raymond Colladay, NASA Director Dr. James Fletcher

UH-60 (USA 78-23012 NASA 750) Sikorsky Airloads Research Team, Front Row: Frank Pichay, Jim Phillips, Karen Studebaker, Stan Uyeda, Munro Dearing, Rick Simmons, Mario Garcia, Anna Almaraz, Allen Au, Frank Presbury, Bob Kufeld, Marianne Kidder, Nancy Bashford, Jack Brilla, Dwight Balough, Chico Rijfkogel, Paul Aristo. Back Row; Tom English, Dick Denman, Patrich Brunn, Tom Reynolds, Bud Billings, Paul Espinosa, Bill Bjorkman, Chee Tung, Leonard Hee, Bill Bousman, Tom Maier, Ron Fong, Steve Timmons, Jeff Cross, Colin Coleman, Paul Loschke, John Lewis, Jim Lasko, Alex Macalma. NASA SP Flight Research at Ames: 57 Years of Development and Validation of Aeronautical Technology Fig. 136 NASA SP-1998-3300

HFF (Hypervelocity Free-Flight) N-237 Impact Studies (For JSC)

F-106 model testing in 6ft w.t. test-050-1-66

ISF Space Station Mock up @ MAFC (McGowen)

Artist: Carter Emmart 'The Case for Mars' conference artwork (Mission to Mars) NOTE; for government educational use only -

C-141 KAO NASA-714 University of Hawaii Seven-Chan photometer mounted on telescope of the airborne observatory

S87-41328 (February 1962) --- Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) pilot. EDITOR'S NOTE: Astronaut Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth. Photo credit: NASA

Research Automation - ATC (Air Traffic Control) Sever weather flight (Artwork)

Artwork: Bell Textron Co. Bell Textron Tilt Rotor Forward Swept Wing Configuration (Bell-029564 Swept Wing Tilt Rotor Concept)

1.8m Space Station Centrifuge N-244 High Bay (ISF) International Space Facility

NASA Ames National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Facility (40x80x120ft Wind Tunnels & Outdoor Aerodynamic Research Facility - OARF) 1987 NFAC dedication - middle Dale Compton, on right Mas Omura

S93-42398 (9 October 1987) --- Astronaut Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr.

NASA Ames Graphics of LARGE-SCALE TILTING PROP ROTOR HOVER PERFORMANCE TESTS AMES OARF COMPOSITE. (ref: XV-15 Metal Rotor AC84-0176-13, XV-15 Composite Rotor from AC84-0498 series, V-22 Osprey AC84-0059-11 testing at OARF)

N-258 NAS Facility air conditioner power units (construction)

S87-46338 (20 Oct 1987) --- Flight controller Granvil Pennington listens to communications from the STS-26 integrated simulations in the flight control room of JSC's mission control center. Five veteran astronauts were in a simulator in another JSC building rehearsing their roles for the scheduled June 1988 flight aboard the Discovery.

C-141 KAO NASA-714 University of Hawaii Seven-Chan photometer mounted on the rear of the telescope in the airborne observatory

Dutch Netherlands testing of Boeing 360 Vertol Rotor: Full Test

S87-45883 (9 Oct. 1987) --- Astronaut N. Jan Davis

Japanese ASUKA STOL: In-flight

Date: Feb 11, 1987 Photographer: CFD Reynolds Shear Stress: Horseshoe Vortex and Bursting Process Turbulent Boundry Layer (Vertical Wire)

aerial of the new NFAC facility N-221 (40x80x120ft. w.t)

S87-46304 (20 Oct 1987) --- Astronauts Frederick H. (Rick) Hauck, left, STS-26 commander, and Richard O. Covey, pilot, man their respective stations in the Shuttle mission simulator (fixed base) at the Johnson Space Center. A simulation for their anticipated June 1988 flight aboard the space shuttle Discovery began Oct. 20. Astronaut David C. Hilmers, one of three mission specialists for the flight, is partially visible in the foreground.

S87-49426 (1987) --- The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) tool box provides stowage of individual tools, tool boards and tool caddies required for maintenance of the telescope. The basic box design was revised from the LEASAT (U.S. Navy) equipment stowage container. It can be mounted to a base plate or back plate depending on the mission location requirements. A four-point latching system secured with pip pins is used to latch the tool box doors for launch. Various other latches are designed into the door panels and tool mounting locations for tool retention. The box consists of aluminum sides and base, a dividing wall and deep doors. Along three sides there are handrails by which STS-61 extravehicular activity (EVA) crew members can translate themselves or brace themselves when stowing and unstowing equipment.

N-258 NAS Facility air condition power units (construction)

C-141 KAO NASA-714 University of Hawaii Seven-Chan photometer mounted on telescope of the airborne observatory

AV-8B (NASA-719) and AV-8C (NASA-704) air to air formation flight over NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field.

S87-45896 (1987) --- Astronaut Andrew M. Allen, astronaut candidate.

Ames Research Center Moffett Field Runway approach from pilots view

1.8m Space Station Centrifuge N-244 High Bay (ISF) International Space Facility

Intergrated Systems Test (IST) personnel; 40x80ft w.t. control room after NFAC modification.

Iris Workstation with CFD CGI airfoil

STS-40 Payload Specialist Millie Hughes-Fulford along with backup payload specialist Robert Ward Phillips familiarize themselves with Spacelab Life Sciences 1 (SLS-1) equipment. The two scientists are in JSC's Life Sciences Project Division (LSPD) SLS mockup located in the Bioengineering and Test Support Facility Bldg 36. Hughes-Fulford, in the center aisle, pulls equipment from an overhead stowage locker while Phillips, in the foreground, experiments with the baroreflex neck pressure chamber at Rack 11. The baroreflex collar will be used in conjuction with Experiment No. 022, Influence of Weightlessness Upon Human Autonomic Cardiovascular Control. Behind Phillips in the center aisle are body mass measurement device (BMMD) (foreground) and the stowed bicycle ergometer.

Shuttle crew escape systems test is conducted by astronauts Steven R. Nagel (left) and Manley L. (Sonny) Carter in JSC One Gravity Mockup and Training Facilities Bldg 9A crew compartment trainer (CCT). Nagel and Carter are evaluating methods for crew escape during Space Shuttle controlled gliding flight. JSC test was done in advance of tests scheduled for facilities in California and Utah. Here, Carter serves as test subject evaluating egress positioning for the tractor rocket escape method - one of the two systems currently being closely studied by NASA.

ISF Space Station Mock up @ MAFC (McGowen)

N-258 NAS Facility air conditioner units calibration and set up (construction)

Artist: Carter Emmart 'The Case for Mars' conference artwork (Mission to Mars) NOTE; for government educational use only - copyright held by Carter Emmart

Date: Feb 11, 1988 Artist: unknown ATC (Air Traffic Control) SIGMA Lab Artwork

Autonomous Perception Vision project - Intelligent Systems - Machine Vision, Fusing Photonics and A.I. - Fiber-Optic Probe for Laser Velocimetry (Mars)

N-258 NAS Facility computer room (construction)

Fabrication of Stirling Engine Cylinder Test Hardware in the Machine Shop

NASA AMES Photographers N-258 NAS DEDICATION CEREMONY. air show VSTOL aircraft QSRA, XV-15 Tiltrotor, AV-8B Harrier in flight formation NOTE: CROP IN ON IMAGE VERTICAL format is AC87-0180-454.1

5.5 inch Fan Simulator Test: 40x80 W.T. High-Bay

Autonomous Perception Vision project - Intelligent Systems - head

N-258 NAS Facility air conditioner power units (construction)

AV-8B (NASA-719) and AV-8C (NASA-704) air to air formation flight over NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field.

Artwork: Bell Textron Co. Bell Textron Tilt Rotor Folding Tilt Rotor Aircraft Concept

aerial of the new NFAC facility N-221 (40x80x120ft. w.t)

S87-40119 (1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom. (NOTE: Astronaut "Gus" Grissom, one of the original seven astronauts, died January 27, 1967, at NASA?s John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Cape Canaveral Florida, in the Apollo 1 spacecraft fire.)

DC-8 (NASA-717) Onboard experiment analysis Antarctic Ozone Experiment

NASA Ames National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Facility (40x80x120ft Wind Tunnels & Outdoor Aerodynamic Research Facility - OARF) 1987 NFAC dedication - Kip Edenborough at airshow

1.8m Space Station Centrifuge N-244 High Bay (ISF) International Space Facility

Artist: Carter Emmart 'The Case for Mars' conference artwork (Mission to Mars) NOTE; for government educational use only -

AX-5 SPACE SUIT TESTING AMES NEUTRAL BUOYANCY TANK (NBT) WITH VIC VYKUKAL

Aerial view of OPF-3 construction, March 17, 1987

Origin of Life: Stromatolites Microbial Mats and Mat-Layer Extracts

Illustration NASA Ames Research Center developed Icing Protection System: Electro-Expuisive Deicing System. (P.I. Dr Lenord Haslim)

Visitor to MVSRF N-257: Rear Adminral Robert Austin

Artist: Carter Emmart 'The Case for Mars' conference artwork (Mission to Mars) NOTE; for government educational use only -

NASA Ames Graphics MAJOR NATIONAL FULL-SCALE AERODYNAMICS COMPLEX (NFAC) ROTORCRAFT TESTS SINCE 1977 COMPOSITE. Sikosky S-76 Rotor AC77-0045, Bell 222 fuselage AC77-1388-1, Bell XV-15 Aircraft AC78-0579-3, Kaman CCR Rotor AC78-0731-1, Lokcheed X-Wing Rorotr AC79-0367-4, Boeing VERTOL BMR Rotor AC80-0120-2, Sikordky ABC Helicopter AC80-0467-17, MBB BO-105 Rotor AC83-0309-157

This photograph is a long shot view of a full scale solid rocket motor (SRM) for the solid rocket booster (SRB) being test fired at Morton Thiokol's Wasatch Operations in Utah. The twin boosters provide the majority of thrust for the first two minutes of flight, about 5.8 million pounds, augmenting the Shuttle's main propulsion system during liftoff. The major design drivers for the SRM's were high thrust and reuse. The desired thrust was achieved by using state-of-the-art solid propellant and by using a long cylindrical motor with a specific core design that allows the propellant to burn in a carefully controlled marner. Under the direction of the Marshall Space Flight Center, the SRM's are provided by the Morton Thiokol Corporation.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Kennedy Space Center Director Forrest McCartney, right, discusses work in progress at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for STS-26 continue. From left are Gary Wall, Lockheed mechanical technician, Joe Spivey, Lockheed hypergolic technician, and McCartney. Photo credit: NASA

S87-45885 (9 Oct. 1987) --- Astronaut Mario Runco Jr. Photo credit: NASA

1.8m Space Station Centrifuge N-244 High Bay (ISF) International Space Facility

AV-8B (NASA-719) and AV-8C (NASA-704) air to air formation flight with T-38, U-2 (NASA-708) with pilots G. Hardy and J. Martin over NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field.

Artist: Carter Emmart 'The Case for Mars' conference artwork (Mission to Mars) NOTE; for government educational use only - copyright held by Carter Emmart

N-258 NAS Facility computer room (construction)

Navier Stokes: Rotor Stator Pressure and Velocity Vectors SSME

McDonnell Douglas Hub (Ultra-High Bypass) Model and SAAB Wake Rake Test 14ft W.T. Test-060-1-14, Turbo Fan Configuration