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Big Joe, a test rocket, had a successful yet failed test flight.
While it was never an official NASA program, FLATs helped pave the way for the first female Shuttle pilot.
In preparation for his Mercury Redstone-2 flight, Ham checks out his life support system and couch.
Astronaut John Glenn inspects artwork to be painted on his Mercury spacecraft.
A camera system is set up in the dynamic test chamber at Goddard Space Flight Center where thorough testing in a simulated space environment is the practice.
The flight crew for the X-15 which was developed to provide data on aerodynamics, structures, flight controls and the physiological aspects of high speed, high altitude flight.
The HL-20 was one of two concepts considered for the Personnel Launch System.
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II tests a Mobile Foot Restraint.
A NASA research pilot watches the NB-52B fly over after an HL-10 test flight.
An astronaut receives training on the Lunar Landing Simulator.
The X-38 research vehicle drops away from NASA's B-52 mothership.
The Gimbal Rig was designed to simulate the motions of a space capsule, training astronauts to control the craft.
Orville Wright flies his glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
An unofficial sustained American aviation altitude record for women was set on July 1, 1979.
During a July 1999 test flight, the X-38 descends under its steerable parachute.
A ramjet engine burns during a flight test for the P-61.
This machine simulates the vibration, G-forces and pressure spacecrafts encounter during launch and landing.
The M2-F3 is launched from the B-52 Mothership.
This is an early version of the modern computer.
An astronaut evaluates the Portable Foot Restraint in space.
The close-up of the right side of the control panel in the Plum Brook Facility shows the controls for the manual operation of the shim rods.
Bell Aircraft Corporation's X-1E is loaded under the Boeing B-29 mothership.
Milt Thompson climbs into the cockpit of the M2-F2 lifting body research aircraft.
