Olga Ley cutting the ribbon at the opening of the Willy Ley Collection at the UAH Library.
Ley, Olga, 1912-
Ley, Willy, 1906-1969
Libraries--Special collections
Science writers
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Academic libraries
Huntsville (Ala.)
Madison County (Ala.)
The UAH Library purchased the Willy Ley Collection from Mrs. Ley in 1970.
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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Still image
Photographs
Olga Ley positioning a bust of Willy Ley on a display case.
Wernher von Braun and UAH President Ben Graves can be seen in the background. The UAH Library purchased the Willy Ley Collection from Mrs. Ley in 1970.
Olga Ley speaking at the dedication of the Willy Ley Collection at the UAH Library.
David Christensen is standing at the right. The UAH Library purchased the Willy Ley Collection from Mrs. Ley in 1970.
Olivia Hill in the Birmingham Post Herald
Hill, Olivia
A picture of Olivia Hill, the director of the Office for Black Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham, from a digitization of a 1992 issue of the Birmingham Post-Herald.
Bill Ingram
Newspapers
Clippings
Olivia Hill Quote from the Birmingham Post Herald
AIDS (Disease)
HIV (Viruses)
AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
Agape House
Olivia Hill's quote about housing for people with AIDS, particularly African Americans, from a digitization of the 1992 Birmingham Post-Herald.
Birmingham post-herald
The Birmingham Post-Herald, Newspapers.com, Ancestry.com (LLC)
On Merrimack Paper Manufacturing, undated
Alabama–History–Huntsville, Madison County
Manufacturing
Merrimack Manufacturing Co.
Notes (Cataloging)
Series 4, Subseries A, Box 14, Folder 11
Notes
ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND Apollo 11 25 1969-1994 The Eagle Has Landed
NASA publication
United States -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Astronauts
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
Aeronautics
Poster featuring artwork of an astronaut in front of the moon. Small images of the Apollo 11 astronauts are in the background"
United States-- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The University of Alabama in Huntsville M. Louis Salmon Library
Posters
Still Image
Onlookers watch the parade as it passes through downtown Huntsville.
Parades
Alabama--Politics and government
School taxes--Law and legislation
School children
The parade was held in support of the 1949 Alabama special county school tax.
Burwell, Edwin D. III [Burwell, Edwin D., Jr.]
Manuscripts
Otia Imperialia
Random open pages of a 14th century Italian manuscript of the Otia Imperialia by Gervase of Tilbury. The margins are well decorated, and the text is handwritten in Latin.
Waugh, Caroline
Gervase, of Tilbury, approximately 1160-approximately 1211
Oxford Bodleian library, Special Collection, MS Canon. Misc. 53
Latin
Operation Plan for Huntsville Area Transportation Study, 1970
Huntsville Area Transportation
Urban renewal
Transportation maps
Reports
Vikram, Chandra
Universities and colleges--Faculty
Vikram taught applied optics at UAH and was involved with the International Society for Optical Engineering.
Gearing, Charles
Gearing taught graduate level courses in optical testing and lens design at UAH.
Optimist Park, Articles and Photos, 1992
Optimist Park (Huntsville, Ala.)
Women's softball
Series 4, Subseries A, Box 13, Folder 34
Space Vehicles
Astronautics--Human factors
Space shuttles
Allen Ware is originally from Atlanta Georgia. He attended Auburn University where he studied Industrial Design . He moved to Huntsville, AL in 1983 to work for a company called "Essex." He worked there from 1983-1991. There, he produced a variety of things. First, he helped produce the Hubble Space Telescope mock-up and crew trainers. Then, he produced some other shuttle mock-ups. After leaving "Essex," he started to work at Boeing in Huntsville where he worked on the International Space Station. There, Ware was an internal and external packager configurator. He did that job for 15 years. He then transitioned to support the Delta IV launch vehicle out of Decatur. There, he did secondary structure design for Delta IV components. Ware is currently an Engineering manager of a Mechanical design team. He has about 15 engineers under him that do spacecraft, aircraft, and launch-vehicle design.
Ware, Allen
Stokes, Jack
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections
Interviews
Video
Oral History Interview With Bran Griffin
Space (Architecture)
Space suits
Bran Griffin was born in Medford, Oregon. His father was in the military, so they moved around a lot. Bran went to the University of Texas his first year of college, and he studied Architecture. Then, he graduated college with a degree in Architecture from Washington State University. He then went to graduate scholl in Southern California, and he received a fine arts degree. After this, Bran wanted to get a degree in something a little more stable, so he went back to school to get his master's degree in Architecture. After this, Bran was on a shuttleship for a couple of years in Rome, and then he came back to start his career in teaching Architecture. Even though he was teaching Architecture, he had an intense passion for space. Because of this passion, he started to become involved with the Johnson Space Center with a faculty fellowship. Bran was in their Spacecraft Design Division. Since he wanted to be closer to be a part of the Space Industry, he decided to move to Washington State. After a while of working in Washington State, he received a job offer from Boeing in Hunstville, AL and began his career there being involved with the space station.
Griffin, Bran
Oral History Interview With Charles Brian Nelson
Space industrialization
Space manufacturing
Charles Brian Nelson was born in 1938 in Memphis, Tennessee. He received his first degree in Industrial Design at Tennessee Tech. After he graduated from college in 1960, he went to work with the Depot Company where his job was making Titanium Dioxide. Charles stayed at this job for about 5 years, and by encouragement from his friends, he moved to Huntsville to work at NASA. He started out working at a test lab where they were responsible for getting the test bird into the test stand to test it. This job also included testing of vibrations, engine fire, and testing every individual part. After this job, Charles moved into the human factors engineering group. He worked for NASA for about 12 years.
Nelson, Charles Brian
Oral History Interview With Charles Dissinger
Space robotics
Astronautics-- Robot applications
Charles Dissinger was born and raised in Virginia. As a small child, Charles's father would drive him over to the Langley Research Center in Virginia, and he was always engaged with the space program. Charles remembers watching every space launch on tv with his dad as a kid. Being inspired by space, he decided to go to The University of Virginia to get his bachelor's degree in Biology. Then, after graduating, he taught high school for 4 years. After this, he went back to graduate school at West Virginia University to get his master's degree in Biology/Biochemistry. His second career after teaching, was doing Biochemical research for 19 years. Charles's wife later on received a job offer at The Marshall Space Flight Center in Hunstville, AL to join the Information Technology Organization there. She took this job, and they moved to Huntsville. Charles was then soon after hired in 1994 at NASA. His first project there included finding the requirements for the NASA Standard 3000 design. This project was called "The Launch Deployment Assembly" which was a system to deliver the robotic arm to the space station. Another program Charles was involved in was the Propulsion Module.
Dissinger, Charles
Oral History Interview With Charles M. Louis
Space stations
Space tourism
As a kid, Charles M. Louis loved to take things apart and put them back together. He also was inspired as a kid while reading a Life magazine article with Wernher Von Braun standing next to the Saturn V engine at the age of 15. Since he was an avid Science Fiction reader at the time, this all inspired him to become involved with the Space Program, and to eventually become a licensed hand radio operator. In college, he pursued an Electrical Engineering degree, and he flunked out of college becasue the classes were too big. Because of this, he decided to change schools and go to the Detroit Institue of Technology. There, he was more successful because of the smaller class sizes. After graduating college, he was hired at Boeing in Seattle, Washington. At Boeing, he was involved in Test Engineering supporting UHF and Microwave antennas on the Minuteman Program. Boeing then got a contract for the Saturn V Program 8 months after Charles started working there. He decided he would rather work on the Space Program then the military side, so he decided to move down to Huntsville, AL to work on the program.
Louis, Charles M.