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[Photograph 2012.201.B1200.0193]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A line forms at Tinker Air Force Base to look at history-making Gemini 7 space capsule. The capsule will be on display in Civic Center as part of the ceremonies welcoming astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan."
Date: July 7, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1198.0003]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This full-size Air Force Transtage spacecraft, the maneuverable upper stage of the mighty Titan III space booster, will be on display at the 1972 State Fair of Oklahoma."
Date: June 1, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1200.0192]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Titan II - Artist concept of the luanching of a Gemini spacecraft. The two-manned spacecraft Gemini weighing more than 3-tons, will be placed in earth orbit by a 430,000-pound thrust Titan II."
Date: 1965
Creator: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1200.0197]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "a line forms at Tinker Air Force Base to look at history-making Gemini 7 space capsule. The capsule will be on display in Civic Center as part of the ceremonies welcoming astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan."
Date: July 7, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1200.0188]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "At the fair Clinton Sherman AFB shows his son David,4, the inside of Spacecraft 5 - a training ship for astronauts and orbital craft for Ham, the space chimp."
Date: August 29, 1964
Creator: Heaton, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1198.0004]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Waterbird" rests on temporary mountings while waiting to be hoisted upright to the word-smeared base at right. "Waterbird" is a "mock Atlas missile," and was America's first missile system capable of carrying atomic warheads anywhere on the planet. It was part of an underground missile silo test at Altus AFB, and will now be put up on display."
Date: March 19, 1968
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1200.0200]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A Martin Company artist's concept of a crewman leaving a rescue space craft going to help a stranded cosmonaut vehicle."
Date: 1965
Creator: World Book Encyclopedia Science Service Inc.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2733]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An exact duplicate of the Surveyor spacecraft scheduled for launching May 30 for the first U.S. attempt at a "soft landing" on the moon is studied at an outdoor site by engineers from Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, Calif., which designed and built the vehicles for NASA's jet propulsion labratory. Surveyor is a forerunner to the Apollo man-on-the-moon program, designed to probe the moon's environment to m… more
Date: 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2735]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crushable honeycomb aluminum footpad (foreground), one of three that will absorb impact of Surveyor spacecraft, is seen on exact counterpart of vehicle scheduled for launching May 30 to attempt first U.S. "soft landing" on the moon…Here a Hughes engineer makes adjustments on camera system carried aboard the spacecraft. Nose cone of one of three vernier engines is seen at left."
Date: 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2731]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Apollo 15 astronauts leave for the Moon July 15 they will have aboard their craft a multitude of equipment, some of which will be used to determine altitude and map varying features of the lunar surface. It will be part of the first laser system ever to orbit the Earth's satelite, above, being checked out at the RCA Aerospace Systems division, Burlington, Mass."
Date: 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2729]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Apollo 15 astronauts leave for the Moon July 15 they will have aboard their craft a multitude of equipment, some of which will be used to determine altitude and map varying features of the lunar surface. It will be part of the first laser system ever to orbit the Earth's satelite, above, being checked out at the RCA Aerospace Systems division, Burlington, Mass."
Date: 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2737]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Target today for Ranger 6 is the sea of Tranquility on the moon where it is expected to hit at 3:24 a.m. Sunday. This is a full moon superimposed over the skyline of Oklahoma City at the Kirkpatrick Planetarium, but Oklahomans will see only a 3rd quarter moon Sunday. The U.S. spacecraft ranger 6 streaked toward doom Saturday with cargo of cameras that could solve age-old mysteries before they crash on the moon early Sun… more
Date: January 31, 1964
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2730]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The dates major events occurred or are now estimated is composed against the way such events were scheduled originally for the nation's three major space programs-(left to right) Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. The original schedule is on the left, the actual course on the right."
Date: 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2738]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is how the Earth looked from the highest altitude ever reached by man. Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins made this photo from 475 miles altitude reached last week during the space flight of Gemini 10. The swirling clouds of a tropical storm appear off the coast of Africa in the lower right area of the photo. Gibraltar, directly above the storm cloud, and Europe are in the background."
Date: July 21, 1966
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2734]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "If the man on the Moon is lying on his back at the exact spot where Surveyor, first U.S. vehicle to attempt a "soft landing" on the luner surface, settles down, this is about what he will see… the "snake" with the pointed head at left is one of two omnidirectional antennas...Launch is scheduled for May 30."
Date: 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2739]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A Hughes Aircraft Company technician marks off the area which Surveyor's camera will see first when the spacecraft make its "soft landing" on the moon. After examining texture of moonstuff encountered by spacecraft's three crushable (to soften landing) honeycomb aluminum footpads, camera (top center) will scan 360 degrees of moonscape. The surveyor pictured, built by Hughes for NASA's jet propolsion laboratory… more
Date: 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.2728]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A Surveyor spacecraft, identical to one slated for launch May 30 in the first U.S. try for a "soft landing" on the moon, is suspended by technicians over the horizon near Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, Calif., which designed and built the vehicles for NASA's jet propulsion labatory...The spacecraft's descent would be slowed by three tiny vernier engines and the shock of landing further softened by the crushable a… more
Date: 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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