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"Apollo Logistics Support System (ALSS) Payloads Summary Report."
This report includes a summary of the major tasks performed by the Apollo Logistics Support System Payloads with an emphasis on the Lunar Mobile Laboratory (MOLAB). -
Boeing Subcontractors on Project Apollo.
The document is a list of Boeing subcontractors on Project Apollo including contractor locations, projects, and funding. -
"System safety handbook."
The testing of a hardware system consists of' subjecting it to carefully controlled operating conditions for the purpose of demonstrating that this system performs its function properly. -
"Saturn V Apollo Flight Configuration."
Drawn by Don Sprague at the Huntsville Engineering section of Boeing. -
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DELTA II Defining Launch Success Since 1960
Computer animated poster featuring a rocket, cell phone, satellite, rover, and a radio telescope. Boeing promotional material. -
"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."
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. -
"Techniques of implementing launch automation programs" (Saturn IB space vehicle system).
This paper identifies the methods and equipment through which automation is becoming a major factor in testing and launching Saturn IB space vehicles. The merits of a digital guidance computer and its impact in extending automated checkout are stressed; also a logical basis is established for computer and manual test control. Hardware and software elements of the automated system are described, and details pertaining to reliability are emphasized. A concluding appraisal suggests that automation will play an expanding role in future test and launch operations. -
"System engineering propulsion, III-C-1."
Page numbering is inconsistent; there are no pages numbered 14 - 17. Some pages have handwritten numbers, others have no numbers at all.; The print quality of many pages is poor. Discusses the definition and function of propulsion as well as how to most effectively employ it . -
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Olivia Hill Quote from the Birmingham Post Herald
Olivia Hill's quote about housing for people with AIDS, particularly African Americans, from a digitization of the 1992 Birmingham Post-Herald. -
Announcement in the Birmingham Post-Herald about Meal Deliveries
Clipping of a scan of the Birmingham Post-Herald from 1996 announcing that the AIDs Task Force of Alabama, the Birmingham AIDS Outreach and the Community Kitchens would work together to provide meals for HIV positive individuals who needed help with meal preparation. -
Events highlight AIDS Day - Birmingham Post Herald
A clipping of a scan of the Birmingham Post Herald that lists World AIDS Day events in Birmingham, Alabama. This includes information about services, the ringing of the church bells, and the Day Without Art exhibit. -
Speaker Request Form
A form from Vestavia Hills UMC in Birmingham Alabama requesting an AIDS speaker come to talk to 40 ministers about various AIDS topics, including positivity, basic AIDS education, the current state of AIDS, and how to care for newly diagnosed patients. -
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Statement Letter of D. H. Bingham.
This is the statement of Daniel H. Bingham taken in December of 1855 regarding a murder that occurred in Alabama that occured in 1842. In his statement, D. H. Bingham accuses Abner Tate of the murder of one Jonathan K. Rier of Tuscaloosa. He also accuses Tate's slave, George Cabiness, of aiding and abetting in the committing of the crime. Following Bingham's statement, a statement of support is taken from Barbara Hazel placing a "stranger" in the home of Abner Tate the night of the murder. The next page is a second statement given by D. H. Bingham regarding the murder of Charles B. Sawyer of Coffee County, Tennessee and accusing Abner Tate and his slave, George Cabiness of the crime. His statement is followed by the witness, Barbara Hazel's statement that placed the victim in the home of Abner Tate. -
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Olivia Hill in the Birmingham Post Herald
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. -
Glenda Hollis reads to children at A Baby's Place
Founder Glenda Hollis reads to an 8 month old baby that is a resident of the specialized foster home A Baby's Place. This is a digitization of a photo in an issue of the Birmingham Post-Herald.