Browse Collections (75 total)
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Heinz Hilten Collection
View the items in Heinz Hilten CollectionAt the start of the Second World War, Heinz Hilten (1909 to 2013) was drafted into the German army, where he worked with von Braun’s V-2 rocket team…
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Lunar Roving Vehicle Collection
View the items in Lunar Roving Vehicle CollectionAs the space race began in the early 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union began to design rovers for the moon that would be able to traverse…
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Frances Cabaniss Roberts Collection (Rescans)
View the items in Frances Cabaniss Roberts Collection (Rescans)Dr. Frances Cabaniss Roberts was born December 19, 1916 in Gainesville, Alabama, a daughter of Richard H. and Mary (Watson) Roberts. She graduated…
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Harrison Brothers Hardware Collection
View the items in Harrison Brothers Hardware CollectionOriginally establishing a tobacco shop on Jefferson Street in 1879, brothers James B. and Daniel T. Harrison moved their shop to their current…
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Oral History Collection
View the items in Oral History CollectionThe University of Alabama in Huntsville's Oral History Collection contains oral interviews with the men responsible for some of America's greatest…
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Harvie P. Jones Architecture Collection
View the items in Harvie P. Jones Architecture CollectionHarvie P. Jones was born in Huntsville, AL on June 9, 1930. He grew up in New Market, AL and went to college at the Georgia Institute of Technology,…
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Ernst Stuhlinger Collection
View the items in Ernst Stuhlinger CollectionErnst Stuhlinger was born in 1913 in Niederrimbach, Germany, and died in 2008 in Huntsville, AL, USA. Stuhlinger was a German scientist brought to the…
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Saturn V Collection
View the items in Saturn V CollectionThe Saturn V was a three-stage launch vehicle and the rocket that put man on the moon. (Detailed information about the Saturn V's three stages may be…
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Skylab Collection
View the items in Skylab CollectionSkylab was the first space station operated by NASA; it was launched without a crew on May 14, 1973. Skylab had three manned missions: Skylab 2,…
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Willy Ley Collection
View the items in Willy Ley CollectionOn October 2, 1906, Willy Otto Oskar Ley was born to Julius Otto Ley and Frida May. Even in his youth, Ley loved exploration and discovery, and Ley…
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Dr. Donald Tarter Video Interviews
View the items in Dr. Donald Tarter Video InterviewsThese video interviews detail the reconstruction of significant social events which led to and influenced the development of the basic World War II…
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