Letter from Christel L. McCanless at the UAH Library to the Army Missile Support Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.
McCanless, Christel Ludewig
United States Army. Missile Command
Academic libraries--Circulation and loans
Redstone Scientific Information Center
Scholarly periodicals
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville (Ala.)
Redstone Arsenal (Ala.)
Madison County (Ala.)
In the letter, McCanless requests the transfer of scientific and engineering journals from Redstone to support research and teaching at the University. A list of the journals is enclosed.
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Correspondence
Text
Letter from George W. Croker at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Fred Croxton, director of the Redstone Scientific Information Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Croker, George W.
Croxton, Fred
In the letter, Croxton discusses an agreement made between the University of Alabama and Redstone Scientific Information Center (RSIC) to share library services and materials, including journal subscriptions, messenger service, and access to the RSIC facility.
"Recommendations for a consolidated library."
University of Alabama in Huntsville. Research Institute
The flier discusses coordination of library services between the UAH Library, the Research Institute, and Redstone Scientific Information Center.
Fliers (Printed matter)
Group photograph of transplanted German engineers at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Aeronautical engineers
Operation Paperclip (U.S.)
Fort Bliss (Tex.)
This photo is a reprint of the original.
Photographs
Still Image
Preparing a V-2 for launch at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.
Rocketry
V-2 rocket--Testing
White Sands Proving Ground (N.M.)
U.S. Army photo. This photo is a reprint of the original.
United States. Army
9330 Technical Service Unit Year Book 1951-1952.
Guided missiles
Military engineers
Soldiers
9330 Technical Service Unit
Yearbooks
Excerpt from the journal of Charles A. Lundquist.
Lundquist, Charles A.
Project Vanguard
Satellites
Space race
The entry describes a meeting during which Lundquist, Wernher von Braun, Ernst Stuhlinger, and John O'Keefe discuss the possibility of a Russian satellite launch and the U.S. Navy's Project Vanguard.
Diaries
Charles Lundquist briefing Wernher von Braun and Hermann Oberth on satellite orbits.
Oberth, Hermann, 1894-1989
Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977
Satellites--Orbits
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Map of "Village on the Moon for Scientists and Visitors," from Space Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, Fall 1958.
Lunar bases
Moon--Exploration
Japanese architect and engineer Hiroshi Kumagai drew this map of a moon base to accompany his article "A Proposal for a Village on the Moon."
Kumagai, Hiroshi
Diagrams
Maps
NASA personnel wait to greet President John F. Kennedy during his second visit to Huntsville.
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
Visits of state
Kennedy visited Huntsville on Armed Forces Day 1963. He first visited the area on September 11, 1962.
Recognition Collection, Box 2, Folder 3.14
Crowds and television cameras wait for President John F. Kennedy during his second visit to Huntsville.
"Educational Lift-Off: Dedication 1969."
Chaffee, Roger B., 1935-1967
Grissom, Virgil I.
White, Edward Higgins, II, 1930-1967
Project Apollo (U.S.)
Public schools
The program dedicates three new Huntsville schools, each named for a member of the Apollo crew that died in the pad fire of February 21, 1967. This program was included in one of two scrapbooks that Christel and George McCanless made for UAH history professor Frances Roberts in 1969.
Huntsville Public Schools
Programs
"Personalities of Deployment Test Program at Huntsville, AL Boeing Test Facility: Quips and Quotes, Development of Lunar Rover 'Golf Cart' Astronauts Drove on the Moon, by R. Lancaster."
Lancaster, Ronald
Contractors
Engineers
Lunar roving vehicles
Lunar surface vehicles
This album contains a series of photographs from the construction of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) at the Boeing test facility in Huntsville, Alabama. Ron Lancaster, a longtime Boeing engineer, added humorous speech bubbles and notes to the photographs, many of which depict himself and his colleagues. The album includes a group shot of the engineers with a completed LRV.
Boeing Aerospace Company
Saturn V history team at the Apollo 10 launch.
Christensen, David L.
Hermann, Rudolf
Holley, I. B., Jr. (Irving Brinton), 1919-2013
Kranzberg, Melvin
Ordway, Frederick I., III (Frederick Ira), 1927-2014
Apollo 10 (Spacecraft)
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Saturn launch vehicles
Saturn Project (U.S).
Shown left to right: David Christensen, Melvin Kranzberg, Irving B. Holley, Jr., Rudolf Hermann, and Fred Ordway.
Excerpt from the journal of Irmgard Stuhlinger.
Stuhlinger, Ernst, 1913-2008
Stuhlinger, Irmgard Lotze
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
Celebrations--Alabama
Space flight to the moon
Stuhlinger attended the launch of Apollo 11 with her husband Ernst Stuhlinger, then the Associate Director for Science at Marshall Space Flight Center. In the entries, she describes her reaction to the launch and the successful lunar landing and makes note of the celebrations she and her family attended in Huntsville. She also records her daily activities, including socializing with neighbors and shopping with her children. A translation is included.
State parks & reserves
Monte Sano State Park (Ala.)
"A spectacular view from Monte Sano State Park near Huntsville, Alabama. Color by Wayne Floyd."
Scenic South Card Company
Christel W. Ludewig McCanless Collection
Postcards
Still image
"Call for a Madison County Mass Meeting, to Oppose the Ratification of the So-Called Constitution of Alabama."
Constitutions--United States--States
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Alabama
This broadside was published by conservative Alabamians in opposition to the 1868 Alabama constitution, known as the "Reconstruction Constitution." The constitution was revised by the constitutional convention on November 5, 1867, and ratified in 1868.
Broadsides
1962 Chronological History, NAA Space and Information Systems Division, Downey, California.
Saturn Project (U.S.)
North American Aviation. Space and Information Systems Division
Oakley, Ralph B.
Chronologies (list)
Brown Engineering Company 1964 Annual Report.
Aerospace industries--United States
Brown Engineering Co.
Annual reports
"1965 Publications," Materials Division, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center.
Materials science
Spacecraft construction materials
Propellants
This document is a compilation of abstracts of NASA Technical Memorandums and MSFC Internal Notes, written by personnel of the Materials Division and released during 1965.
Annotated bibliographies