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jet-powered aircraft here, here–here
Johnson, Lyndon here, here
Johnson, Roy W. here–here
Jupiter missiles here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here
Kammler, Hans here–here, here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here
Kaplan, Joseph here
Keech, Ray here–here
Kegeldüse here, here
Kennedy, John, F. here
Kensington Palace Gardens, London here–here
Kesselring, Albert here
Killian, James here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here–here, here–here
Kittinger, Joe here, here–here, here
Korean War here, here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here
Kotcher, Ezra here–here
Krueger, Walter here
Kummer, Major here–here
Kummersdorf West here–here, here–here, here, here–here, here
Land, E. H. here
Lang, Fritz here–here, here, here, here
Langley Memorial Laboratory here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here–here
Lear, Ben here
Lee, Ernest R. “Tex” here
Ley, Willy here, here–here
Lindenberg, Hans here
Lippisch, Alexander here
Loki rockets here, here, here, here
Luftwaffe here–here, here
Mach, Ernst here
Man in Space program here–here
LUMAN here–here
LUREC here
MISS here–here
MISSOPH here–here
Manhigh here–here, here–here, here
Manned Earth Reconnaissance here
Manned Recoverable Earth Orbiter here
Mars here, here–here
Marshall, George C. here–here, here
Martin Company here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Massachusetts Institute of Technology here, here, here, here
McElroy, Neil here–here, here, here, here
McMath, Francis Charles here–here
Me-163 here
Me-262 here
Me163B Comet here
Medaris, John Bruce here–here, here–here, here, here
Messerschmitt here, here, here
Metropolis here, here
mice here
Mirak 1 and here
Mittelwerk here–here, here, here, here, here
monkeys here–here, here–here
Moon here, here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here
Muroc, California here–here, here–here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here
MX-774 1593 here
MX-774 here–here, here, here, here
NACA here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here
civilian agency here–here
NASA here–here
NASA here–here, here–here
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics see NACA
National Aeronautics and Space (NAS) Act (USA) here
National Aeronautics and Space Administration see NASA
National Security Act 1947 (USA) here
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) here, here–here, here
Navajo missile here
Naval Technical Mission here
Nazi Party here–here, here
Kristallnacht here
Nebel, Rudolf here–here, here, here
New York Times here, here, here
Newton’s third law here
Nimwegen, Erich here–here
Nixon, Richard here, here
North American Aviation here–here, here–here, here, here
X-15 here–here, here
Northrop Corporation here, here, here, here
Oberth, Hermann here–here, here–here, here, here
Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen here–here, here, here–here
Ways to Spaceflight here
Opel, Fritz von here–here
Open Skies Treaty here–here, here
Operation LUSTY here–here, here–here
Operation Overcast here–here, here, here, here
Operation Overlord here–here
Pearl Harbor here, here, here
Peenemünde, Germany here–here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here–here
RAF raid here–here
Perkins, Oliver “Perk” here
Polar Year here
Polaris missiles here
pressure suits here–here
Project 1115 here, here, here
Project Adam here
Project Feedback here, here–here, here
Project Hermes here, here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here
Project HYWARDS here, here
Project Mercury here–here
Project Orbiter here–here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here
Project Paperclip here, here, here
Project Vanguard here–here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here
Purcell, Edward here
Quarles, Don here, here–here, here, here
Rabi, Isidor here
RAF here–here
Raketenflugplatz Berlin here–here, here–here, here–here, here
Reaction Motors here, here–here
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here
Reich Institute for Chemistry and Technology here–here
Republic Aviation here
Repulsor here, here–here
Reynolds Metals here
Ridley, Jack here
Riedel, Klaus here–here, here, here, here
Riedel, Walter here–here, here–here, here
ROBO here
rocket cars
Eisfeld-Valier Rak. 1 here
Opel-Sander Rak. 1 here–here
Opel-Sander Rak. 2 here
Rak Bob here
rocket planes
Lippisch Ente here–here
rockets, early here–here
Roosevelt, Franklin D. here, here–here, here
Round Three Conference here–here, here
RS-27 here–here, here–here, here
RS-29 here–here, here, here, here
Rudolph, Arthur here, here, here, here
Ryan, Cornelius here–here
SAG here–here, here, here–here
Sander, Friedrich Wilhelm here, here
Sänger, Eugen here–here, here, here
antipodal bomber here–here, here, here, here–here, here
satellites here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here–here
Explorer 1 here, here, here–here, here, here
Sputnik here–here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here
Schirra, Walter M. here
Schriever, Bernhard here, here
Second World War here
Sergeant rockets here, here, here, here
Shephard, Alan B. here
Siemens Company here
Simons, David here–here, here–here, here, here–here, here
Slayton, Donald K. here
Smith, Walter Bedell
Sonic Wind No. 1 here–here
Soviet Union here–here, here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here
Spaatz, Carl A. here
space program here–here
Air Research and Development Command (ARDC) here–here
spaceflight here, here, here, here–here
Speer, Albert here, here
Sputnik here–here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here
SS (Schutzstaffel) here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here
SS-6 Sapwood missile here
Stack,
John here, here–here
Stalin, Joseph here, here–here, here, here
Stamer, Friedrich here–here
Stapp, John Paul here–here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here
Staver, Robert here
Stevenson, Adlai here, here
Stewart, Charles here–here
Stewart, Homer Joe here–here, here–here, here, here
Storms, Harrison here–here, here, here, here–here
Stratolab here, here
Suez Crisis here–here
supersonic flight here, here, here, here–here, here
manned aircraft here–here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here
ultra planes here–here
Taifun missiles here
Technical University, Vienna here
Teller, Edward here–here
Tessmann, Bernhard here–here, here
Thor missiles here, here–here
Titan missiles here, here
Tofty, Holger here, here, here
Treaty of Versailles here
Truman, Harry S. here–here
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin here
TV-2 here–here
TV-3 here–here, here
ultra planes here–here, here, here
United Kingdom see Britain
Universum Film-Aktien Gesellschaft here–here, here
Unmanned Recoverable Earth Orbiter here
USA here–here, here–here
Army Air Force Scientific Advisory Group here–here
preparing for war here–here
V-2 here–here, here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here
Bumper rockets here–here
US V-2 program here, here–here, here–here, here
V-2 attacks on London here, here
V-2 Upper Atmospheric Research Panel here
Valier, Max here–here, here–here, here, here
Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR) here–here, here–here, here, here
Verne, Jules De la Terre à la Lune here
Viking here, here–here
Volkhart, Kurt C. here
von Hindenburg, Paul here
von Kármán, Theodore here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here
von Richthofen, Manfred here
von Richthofen, Wolfram here–here
WAC Corporal here
Weyprecht, Carl here–here
White Sands, New Mexico here–here, here–here, here, here, here
Williams, Walter C. here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here–here
Wilson, Charles here, here, here, here, here
Winzen, Otto here–here, here–here, here–here
Winzen, Vera here, here–here, here, here
Woods, Bob here–here, here, here, here
Woolams, P. V. “Jack” here
Wright Air Development Center here, here, here
Wright Field, Ohio here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here
X-1 here–here, here, here, here
X-15 here–here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here
X-15B here–here, here
X-1A here–here, here–here
X-1B here
X-2 here, here–here, here, here–here, here
XLR-99 here–here, here
XP-59A Airacomet here
XP-79
YB-49 Flying Wing here
Yeager, Chuck here–here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here, here
Concept art from 1961 showing the Dyna-Soar launching atop a Titan II missile.
Wernher von Braun, center in a suit, watches a V-2 launch with Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch among other military personnel. Peenemünde, May 1943.
Walter Dornberger, left, and Wernher von Braun with his arm in a cast after the Peenemünde group surrendered to American troops on May 3, 1945.
Walt Disney, left, with Wernher von Braun in 1954.
Army Air Force Science Advisory Group members Hugh Dryden, Ben Lockspeiser, Theodore von Kármán, and A. P. Rowe in occupied Germany on May 9, 1945.
The X-15 immediately after launching from the B-52 mothership in 1959.
The US Navy’s Vanguard rocket explodes on the launch pad, December 6, 1957.
John Paul Stapp riding a rocket sled at Edwards Air Force Base.
The X-15 nestled under the wing of its B-52 launch plane.
Pilot Stan Butchart training in the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator at the NACA High-Speed Flight Station.
Neil Armstrong training in the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator at the NACA High-Speed Flight Station in 1956.
Scott Crossfield standing in front of the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket in which he broke Mach 2 on November 20, 1953.
Six frames showing the effects of a rocket sled deceleration test on John Paul Stapp.
The V-2 rocket, tested and developed by the German Army, is readied for launch under the British Operation Backfire after the Second World War.
An American soldier examines a half-completed V-2 rocket in an underground assembly plant after the Second World War.
Fritz von Opel after driving the rocket-powered car Opel RAK 2 at the Avus Speedway in Berlin.
Wernher von Braun speaks with Harrison Storms during a 1960s visit to the North American Aviation’s Space and Information Systems Division in Downey, California.
NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station groundbreaking ceremony on January 27, 1953.
The rear end of the rocketpowered car Opel RAK 2 at the Avus speedway in Berlin, just before Fritz von Opel took it for a test drive.
American Air Force Lieutenant Colonel David G. Simons, Otto Winzen, and Vera Winzen with the Project Manhigh gondola in 1957.
President Eisenhower with NASA Deputy Administrator Hugh Dryden, left, and NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan, right, in 1958.
The opposite of a streamlined space plane, a full-scale Mercury blunt-body capsule goes through wind tunnel testing in 1959.
JPL director William H. Pickering, physicist James Van Allen, and Wernher von Braun holding a model of Explorer 1 after it successfully reached orbit.
The US Army’s Jupiter C rocket launches America’s first satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit on January 31, 1958.
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