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Katherine Parr's Tomb

The final resting place of Katherine Parr

School enrollment record belonging to William A. Mrazek.

This booklet, a Meldungsbuch, is a record of Mrazek's enrollment at Deutsche Technische Hochschule Brünn (German Technical University in Brünn, Czechoslovakia, now Brno, Czech Republic), where he received an MS in Engineering in 1934. The booklet identifies his courses and professors and includes a photograph of Mrazek.

Letter from Jacob L. Devers to Major Edwin D. Burwell Jr.

The letter thanks Burwell for his service in the Army during the war.

View of Parkway Place Mall from the upper deck.

Parkway Place Mall, found at 2801 Memorial Pkwy SW, Huntsville, AL, is a two-story enclosed mall. The modern building was opened in 2002, but the mall first opened in 1957 as an open-air strip mall named Parkway Shopping Center. This picture shows it from the outside upper parking deck, with one of its roadside signs in the top left.

View of Providence Classical School from Clinton Ave E

Providence Classical School, located at 605 Clinton Ave E. Was originally a school called Huntsville High School, but this school now occupies the land after Huntsville High School moved locations.

Preservation, shipment & recovery of the Saturn booster.

The purpose of this report is to present the shipping and recovery procedures for the Saturn booster.

"A Discussion of the Lunar Landing Problem."

Digesu worked in the Astrionics Division of MSFC. This paper was presented at the AIAA Guidance & Control Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 12-14, 1963.

"Manned Lunar Landing via Rendezvous."

Paper to be presented at the IAS National Meeting on Manned Space Flight. Focuses on operations leading to injection of the space craft into the lunar transfer trajectory.

"Brooks Watson and Saturn's Steel Mountain."

Included are a copy of page 7 of the December 1963 publication of Pan Am (GMRD) Clipper magazine and a letter from Pan American World Airways to David Christensen. The magazine article briefly describes the gantry that surrounded Saturn-V and Pan American's Saturn complex Supervisor, Brooks Watson.

Walt Disney Pictures invites you to discover the mystery of Mars ROVING MARS

Paper bag promoting the Roving Mars movie. Bag features image of rover on the surface of Mars.

"Traffic Stoppers Made In Our Own Plant!"

This flier advertises window and counter displays. The displays include figures of gnomes, clowns, chefs, people, bunnies, and a variety of santas.

Oral History Interview With Charles Dissinger

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.

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"Use of tank mounted booster pumps for providing NPSH to turbopumps operating in a radiation environment."

This paper outlines the results of a test program which was planned to demonstrate the feasibility of using a tank mounted, all-inducer, high speed liquid hydrogen booster pump to provide NPSH for the turbo pump in a reactor-powered vehicle. The cavitation problem associated with pumpoing liquid hydrogen, when used as a propellant, is further aggravated by localized heating caused by radiation from the reactor.

"Pumping boiling liquid hydrogen without cavitation."

Article containing diagrams about the pumping and boiling process of water.

"Design and Development of a Zero-G Vapor Liquid Separator For Use in Cryogenic Fluid Power Systems."

During long coast periods of zero-gravity, storage vessels for the cryogenic liquids proposed for use in some power transmission systems undergo random distribution of the liquid and vapor phases therein. Thus, when heat flow into the vessel causes the vessel pressure to build-up requiring venting to maintain a safe value, the likelihood of venting the valuable liquid phase, as well as the vapor, results. To preclude this eventuality, various devices for separating the liquid and vapor phases and venting just the vapor have been studied and carried into the experimentation stages.