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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy attends a White House ceremony April 20, 1962 in Washington, DC. (Photo NARA)
File Reference # 1003_100THA

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy at the U.S. Capitol Building with her children John and Caroline after attending a ceremony for her late husband John F. Kennedy, November 24, 1963. (Photo NARA)
File Reference # 1003_101THA

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy March 27, 1963 in Washington, DC. (Photo NARA)
File Reference # 1003_099THA

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend the inaugural ball January 20, 1961 in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy of JFK Library)
File Reference # 1003_098THA

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend a White House Ceremony February 21, 1963 in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy National Archive)
File Reference # 1003_097THA

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

The Presidential motorcade through Dallas, Texas a few moments before President John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed, November 22, 1963. (Photo courtesy Library Of Congress)
File Reference # 1003_095THA

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy attend a White House Ceremony February 19, 1963 in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy National Archive)
File Reference # 1003_096THA

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy attend a White House Ceremony January 21, 1963 in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy National Archive)
File Reference # 1003_094THA

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy depart the National Theater September 25, 1962 in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy National Archive)
File Reference # 1003_092THA

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend a White House Ceremony February 21, 1963 in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy National Archive)

File Reference # 1003_093THA

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy throwing the bouquet at her first wedding, Sept. 12, 1953.
Photo Credit: Toni Frissell
File Reference # 1003_091THA

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933.
File Reference # 1003_090THA

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy and daughter Caroline, in Hyannis Port in 1963 with their dogs - photo dated 14 August 1963 by Cecil W. Stoughton, White House Photographs.
File Reference # 1003_088THA

Al Capone

Al Capone

Al Capone, circa 1930.
File Reference # 1003_087THA

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud, 1921.
Photo by F. Schmutzer
File Reference # 1003_085THA

John F. Kennedy Inauguration

John F. Kennedy Inauguration

Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on east portico of U.S. Capitol, January 20, 1961.
File Reference # 1003_084THA

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, presidential candidate, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing
slightly right, 1860.
File Reference # 1003_083THA

New York Stock Exchange

New York Stock Exchange

Telephone operator at post, new quotation system, New York Stock Exchange, circa 1928.
File Reference # 1003_082THA

Governor George Wallace

Governor George Wallace

Governor George Wallace attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama, June 11, 1963.
File Reference # 1003_081THA

Abraham Lincoln Ford Theater

Abraham Lincoln Ford Theater

President Abraham Lincoln's box at Ford's Theater Washington, D.C.,circa 1865.
File Reference # 1003_080THA

Bobby Kennedy

Bobby Kennedy

Photograph showing Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to a crowd of African Americans and whites through a megaphone outside the Justice Department; sign for Congress of Racial Equality is prominently displayed, June, 14, 1963.
File Reference # 1003_078THA

President Abraham Lincoln's Funeral

President Abraham Lincoln's Funeral

Washington, D.C. President Lincoln's funeral procession on Pennsylvania Avenue, April 19, 1865.
File Reference # 1003_076THA

Civil Rights March

Civil Rights March

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963.
File Reference # 1003_077THA

Prohibition

Prohibition

New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour
liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition, circa 1921.
File Reference # 1003_075THA

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, November 19, 1863.
File Reference # 1003_074THA

Union Station

Union Station

In the waiting room of the Union Station, Chicago, IL. 1943
File Reference # 1003_073THA

Pedestrians on Brooklyn Bridge

Pedestrians on Brooklyn Bridge

Pedestrians on the upper deck
promenade of the Brooklyn Bridge circa 1910.
File Reference # 1003_071THA

Senator John F. Kennedy

Senator John F. Kennedy

Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator John F. Kennedy standing in convertible pulling away from the State Capitol building, greeting supporters on both sides. Austin, Texas September 13, 1960.
Photo by Frank Muto
File Reference # 1003_069THA

Kennedy and Johnson Poster

Kennedy and Johnson Poster

1960 Democratic Presidential/Vice-Presidential Campaign Poster of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
File Reference # 1003_068THA

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Swearing in of Lyndon B. Johnson as President, November 22, 1963.
L-R: Mac Kilduff (lower left corner), Jack Valenti, Judge Sarah T. Hughes, Cong. Albert
Brooks, Lady Bird Johnson, Chief Curry (behind LBJ's hand), President Lyndon B. Johnson,
Evelyn Lincoln (eyeglasses only visible behind LBJ), Jacqueline Kennedy, Congressman Jack Brooks.

File Reference # 1003_067THA

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, with cigar in hand,
circa 1907.
File Reference # 1003_065THA

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, holding pipe, circa 1905.
File Reference # 1003_066THA

The Barnum & Bailey Circus

The Barnum & Bailey Circus

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth. The marvelous foot-ball dogs printed circa 1900.
File Reference # 1003_064THA

The Barnum & Bailey Circus

The Barnum & Bailey Circus

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth. Wonderful performing geese, roosters and musical donkey, printed circa 1900.

File Reference # 1003_063THA

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radio telegraph system, circa 1903.
File Reference # 1003_062THA

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley, with gun Buffalo Bill gave her, 1922.
File Reference # 1003_060THA

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla circa 1890.
File Reference # 1003_061THA

Jesse James

Jesse James

Jesse James, 1864.
File Reference # 1003_058THA

 J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI, Dept. of Justice, April 5, 1940.
File Reference # 1003_057THA

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, 1931.
File Reference # 1003_056THA

Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull, circa 1885.
File Reference # 1003_055THA

Flag Making

Flag Making

Flag Making in Brooklyn, New York, July 24, 1940.
File Reference # 1003_053THA

Structural Worker

Structural Worker

Old-timer, keeping up with the boys. Many structural workers are above middle-age. Empire State [Building]. New York City, New York, 1930.
File Reference # 1003_052THA

Immigrant Children

Immigrant Children

Immigrant children, Ellis Island, New York, Circa 1908.
File Reference # 1003_051THA

Women Workers

Women Workers

A quartet of girl workers during lunch time at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, California. , August 1943.
File Reference # 1003_050THA

Japanese Internment Camp

Japanese Internment Camp

Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California, Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at the War Relocation Authority center, July 2, 1942.
File Reference # 1003_048THA

Homestead Settlers

Homestead Settlers

Hancock homestead, July 23, 1910.
Settler from Benson, Minn.
Sun River project, Montana.
File Reference # 1003_049THA

A farmer and his son

A farmer and his son

A farmer and his son listening to the radio in the evenings, Shawnee county, Kansas, September 23 or 24, 1924.
File Reference # 1003_047THA

Orville Wright

Orville Wright

Wright Aeroplane, Ft. Myer, VA. Orville Wright, September 1908.
File Reference # 1003_045THA

President Lyndon Johnson

President Lyndon Johnson

President Lyndon Johnson with Senator Richard Russell at the White House, December 7, 1963, Washington, DC.
File Reference # 1003_046THA

Child Workers

Child Workers

Sweeper and doffer boys in Lancaster Cotton Mills, Lancaster, S.C., December 1, 1908.
File Reference # 1003_044THA

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the presidential retreat Shangri La, May 14, 1943.
File Reference # 1003_043THA

Vietnam Marine

Vietnam Marine

A young Marine private waits on the beach during the Marine landing, Da Nang, Vietnam, August 3, 1965.
File Reference # 1003_041THA

VJ Day

VJ Day

American servicemen and women gather in front of "Rainbow Corner" Red Cross club in Paris to celebrate the unconditional surrender of the Japanese. August 15, 1945.
File Reference # 1003_040THA

Breadline

Breadline

"White Angel Breadline" soup kitchen in San Francisco, California, winter 1933-34.
File Reference # 1003_039THA

Croix de Guerre receients

Croix de Guerre receients

African American men of the 369th (15th N.Y.) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action." Left to right. Front row: Pvt. Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Pvt. Leon Fraitor, Pvt. Ralph Hawkins. Back Row: Sgt. H. D. Prinas, Sgt. Dan Strorms, Pvt. Joe Williams, Pvt. Alfred Hanley, and Cpl. T. W. Taylor, 1919.
File Reference # 1003_038THA

Young Mother

Young Mother

Young migratory mother, originally from Texas. Edison, Kern County, California, April 11, 1940.
File Reference # 1003_037THA

Buffalo Bill Cody

Buffalo Bill Cody

Lithograph of Buffalo Bill, (William Frederick Cody) American soldier, bison hunter and showman, circa 1890.
File Reference # 1003_036THA

Women Working During World War 2

Women Working During World War 2

A woman worker concentrates on part of the cowling for one of the motors of a B-25 bomber being assembled in the engine department of North American (Aviation, Inc.'s) Inglewood, CA, plant, 1942.

File Reference # 1003_035THA

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt, full length portrait, facing front, in deer skin hunting suit, rifle in hands, 1885.
File Reference # 1003_031THA

President-elect John F. Kennedy

President-elect John F. Kennedy

President-elect John F. Kennedy shakes hands with Father Richard J. Casey, the pastor, after
attending Mass at Holy Trinity Church prior to inauguration ceremonies, 1961.
File Reference # 1003_029THA

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa, circa 1912.
File Reference # 1003_028THA

Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody

Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody

Lithograph of Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in buckskin clothing, with rifle and handgun circa 1870.
File Reference # 1003_027THA

General George Custer

General George Custer

General George Custer, circa 1865.
File Reference # 1003_026THA

General George Custer

General George Custer

General George Custer, circa 1865.
File Reference # 1003_025THA

General George Custer

General George Custer

General George Custer, circa 1865.
File Reference # 1003_024THA

President John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy

President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in the football field, September 12, 1962.
File Reference # 1003_019THA

President John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy in his historic message to a joint session of the Congress, on May 25, 1961.
File Reference # 1003_017THA

President John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy

President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in the football field, September 12, 1962.
File Reference # 1003_018THA

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, wearing hat and sweater, holding butterfly, 1873.
File Reference # 1003_016THA

First Flight Kitty Hawk

First Flight Kitty Hawk

Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright running alongside to balance the machine, has just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing. The starting rail, the wing-rest, a coil box, and other items needed for flight preparation are visible behind the machine, December 17, 1903. 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.
File Reference # 1003_015THA

Hitchhikers 1936

Hitchhikers 1936

Two people (travelers) hitchhiking along road near a billboard that says "Next time, try the train. Relax" March 1937.
File Reference # 1003_014THA

Migrant Mother

Migrant Mother

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children, Florence Thompson, age thirty-two, Nipomo, California, 1936.
File Reference # 1003_013THA

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding his spectacles and a pencil.
February 5, 1865.


File Reference # 1003_012THA

Major General Ulysses S. Grant

Major General Ulysses S. Grant

Portrait of Major General Ulysses S. Grant, officer of the Federal Army, circa 1860.
File Reference # 1003_010THA

Major General Ulysses S. Grant

Major General Ulysses S. Grant

Portrait of Major General Ulysses S. Grant, officer of the Federal Army, circa 1860.
File Reference # 1003_011THA

President Abraham Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln, 1858.
File Reference # 1003_009THA

President Harry S. Truman

President Harry S. Truman

With smiles and a wave, President Harry S. Truman and his successor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, leave the White House in an open car on the way to Capitol for inauguration ceremonies, January 20, 1953.
File Reference # 1003_008THA

Destitute Migrant Mother

Destitute Migrant Mother

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children, Florence Thompson, age thirty-two, Nipomo, California, 1936.
File Reference # 1003_007THA

Destitute Migrant Mother

Destitute Migrant Mother

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children, Florence Thompson, age thirty-two, Nipomo, California, 1936.
File Reference # 1003_006THA

General Robert E. Lee

General Robert E. Lee

Portrait of General Robert E. Lee, officer of the Confederate Army, 1864.
File Reference # 1003_004THA

Destitute Migrant Mother

Destitute Migrant Mother

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children, Florence Thompson, age thirty-two, Nipomo, California, 1936.
File Reference # 1003_005THA

Destitute Migrant Mother

Destitute Migrant Mother

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children, Florence Thompson, age thirty-two, Nipomo, California, 1936.
File Reference # 1003_003THA

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart, circa 1920's.
File Reference # 1003_002THA

Uncle Sam 'I Want You' US Army Recruiting Poster

Uncle Sam 'I Want You' US Army Recruiting Poster

Uncle Sam 'I Want You' US Army Recruiting Poster. Created in 1916. Original Illustration by James Montgomery Flagg
File Reference # 1003_001THA

Auto Parts 1936

Auto Parts 1936

Auto parts shop. Atlanta, Georgia, 1936.
File Reference # 1002_020THA

New Orleans street scene

New Orleans street scene

Waterfront in New Orleans. French market sidewalk scene. Louisiana, 1935.
File Reference # 1002_019THA

Bethlehem graveyard

Bethlehem graveyard

Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill. Pennsylvania, 1935.
File Reference # 1002_017THA

Archival Historical

Archival Historical

Washstand in the dog run and kitchen of Floyd Burroughs' cabin. Hale County, Alabama, circa 1935.

File Reference # 1002_018THA

Francisco "Pancho" Villa

Francisco "Pancho" Villa

Mexican revolutionary general Francisco "Pancho" Villa and Calixto Contreras (4th from right), circa 1910.
File Reference # 1002_016THA

Slave Quarters

Slave Quarters

Exterior view of slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia, circa 1864.
File Reference # 1002_015THA

Church interior

Church interior

Church interior, Alabama or Tennessee, 1936.
File Reference # 1002_013THA

Worker at carbon black plant

Worker at carbon black plant

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas, 1942
File Reference # 1002_012THA

Roadside Fish Stand

Roadside Fish Stand

Roadside fish stand near Birmingham, Alabama, 1936.
File Reference # 1002_011THA

The General Store 1936

The General Store 1936

General store interior. Moundville, Alabama, 1936.
File Reference # 1002_010THA

Replastering an adobe house

Replastering an adobe house

Spanish-American women replastering an adobe house. This is done once a year. Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940.
File Reference # 1002_009THA

Woman working during World War 2

Woman working during World War 2

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in CA, 1942.
File Reference # 1002_008THA

US Sailor

US Sailor

After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942.
File Reference # 1002_006THA

Boys Window Shopping

Boys Window Shopping

Boys looking at store window display of toys, circa 1941.
File Reference # 1002_005THA

Cabins imitating the Indian teepee

Cabins imitating the Indian teepee

Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky, July 1940.
File Reference # 1002_004THA

1940s USA

1940s USA

U.S. Flags displayed on a main street in the USA. 1940s Era Automobiles parked along the street. circa 1942
File Reference # 1002_002THA

Gas Station, 1942

Gas Station, 1942

Gas Station, 1942
File Reference # 1002_001THA

Beatles with Maharishi Yogi

Beatles with Maharishi Yogi

The Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Bangor, North Wales, UK,1967. File Reference #1013_132 THA © JRC /The Hollywood Archive - All Rights Reserved.

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.

President John F. Kennedy, astronaut John Glenn and General Leighton I. Davis ride together during a parade in Cocoa Beach, Fla., after Glenn's historic first U.S. orbital spacefight, 1962.
File Reference # 1003_624THA

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. dons his silver Mercury pressure suit in preparation for launch, 1962.
File Reference # 1003_625THA

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight, poses for a photo with the Mercury "Friendship 7" spacecraft during preflight activities, 1962
File Reference # 1003_622THA

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. (Buzz)

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. (Buzz)

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. (Buzz), July 1969. Aldrin was the second person to walk on the Moon. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history. He set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969 (UTC), following mission commander Neil Armstrong.
File Reference # 1003_616THA

Alan B. Shepard

Alan B. Shepard

Alan B. Shepard, America's first man in space, puts on his Navy Mark IV spacesuit, May 5, 1961

File Reference # 1003_608THA

Astronaut Robert L. Stewart

Astronaut Robert L. Stewart

Astronaut Robert L. Stewart tests the nitrogen propelled, hand-controlled manned maneuvering unit (MMU) as part of an extravehicular activity (EVA) during Flight 41-B of the space shuttle Challenger. The MMU is a device which allows astronauts to move freely in space without a tether. (February 7, 1984)


File Reference # 1003_593THA

Astronaut Edward H. White

Astronaut Edward H. White

During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. The spacewalk started at 3:45 p.m. EDT on the third orbit when White opened the hatch and used the hand-held maneuvering oxygen-jet gun to push himself out of the capsule.

File Reference # 1003_591THA

Astronaut Edward H. White

Astronaut Edward H. White

Astronaut Edward H. White, pilot for the Gemini IV spaceflight, floats in space during the first spacewalk by an American. The extravehicular activity, or spacewalk, was performed during the third Earth orbit of the Gemini IV mission. White is attached to the spacecraft by a 25-foot umbilical line and a 23-foot tether line, both wrapped in gold tape to form one cord. In his right hand White carries a Hand-Held Self-Maneuvering Unit. The visor of his helmet is gold-plated to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun. (June 3, 1965)

File Reference # 1003_590THA

 Challenger Space Shuttle Crew

Challenger Space Shuttle Crew

The NASA family lost seven of its own on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch.

In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Left to right are Teacher-in-Space payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe; payload specialist Gregory Jarvis; and astronauts Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, mission commander; Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist; Mike J. Smith, pilot; and Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist.
File Reference # 1003_589THA

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II

On Feb. 7, 1984, Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, ventured further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut had ever been. This space first was made possible by a nitrogen jet propelled backpack, previously known at NASA as the Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU.

After a series of test maneuvers inside and above Challenger's payload bay, McCandless went "free-flying" to a distance of 320 feet away from the Orbiter. This stunning orbital panorama view shows McCandless out there amongst the black and blue of Earth and space. (February 7, 1984)


File Reference # 1003_588THA

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS 41-B mission specialist, participates in a historical spacewalk. He is pictured a few meters away from the cabin of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger. This spacewalk represented the first use of a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled device called the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), which allows for much greater mobility than that afforded previous space walkers who had to use restrictive tethers. (February 7, 1984)


File Reference # 1003_587THA

Space Shuttle Challenger

Space Shuttle Challenger

The Space Shuttle Challenger, atop a mobile launch platform, slowly moves through the Florida fog to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its first liftoff on the STS-6 mission. The fully assembled Shuttle, weighting 12,000 pounds less than predecessor Columbia, completed the trip to the pad in just over six hours on Nov. 30, 1982.

File Reference # 1003_586THA

Astronaut Edward H. White

Astronaut Edward H. White

During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. The spacewalk started at 3:45 p.m. EDT on the third orbit when White opened the hatch and used the hand-held maneuvering oxygen-jet gun to push himself out of the capsule.

The EVA started over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii and lasted 23 minutes, ending over the Gulf of Mexico. Initially, White propelled himself to the end of the 8-meter tether and back to the spacecraft three times using the hand-held gun. After the first three minutes the fuel ran out and White maneuvered by twisting his body and pulling on the tether.

In a photograph taken by Commander James McDivitt taken early in the EVA over a cloud-covered Pacific Ocean, the maneuvering gun is visible in White's right hand. The visor of his helmet is gold-plated to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun.
File Reference # 1003_585THA

Mars Curiosity Rover

Mars Curiosity Rover

This look back at a dune that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove across was taken by the rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the 538th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 9, 2014). The rover had driven over the dune three days earlier. For scale, the distance between the parallel wheel tracks is about 9 feet (2.7 meters). The dune is about 3 feet (1 meter) tall in the middle of its span across an opening called "Dingo Gap." This view is looking eastward.

The image has been white balanced to show what the Martian surface materials would look like if under the light of Earth's sky.
File Reference # 1003_584THA

Mars Curiosity Rover

Mars Curiosity Rover

This view combines several frames taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, looking into a valley to the west from the eastern side of a dune at the eastern end of the valley. The team operating Curiosity has chosen this valley as a likely route toward mid-term and long-term science destinations. The foreground dune, at a location called "Dingo Gap," is about 3 feet (1 meter) high in the middle and tapered at south and north ends onto low scarps on either side of the gap. (Jan. 30, 2014)
File Reference # 1003_583THA

Mars Curiosity Rover

Mars Curiosity Rover

This scene combines images taken by the left-eye camera of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover during the midafternoon, local Mars solar time, of the mission's 526th Martian day, or sol (Jan. 28, 2014). The sand dune in the upper center of the image spans a gap, called "Dingo Gap," between two short scarps. The dune is about 3 feet (1 meter) high. The nearer edge of it is about 115 feet (35 meters) away from the rover's position when the component images were taken, just after a Sol 526 drive of 49 feet (15 meters).
File Reference # 1003_582THA

Mars Curiosity Rover

Mars Curiosity Rover

This mosaic of images from Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) shows geological members of the Yellowknife Bay formation, and the sites where Curiosity drilled into the lowest-lying member, called Sheepbed, at targets "John Klein" and "Cumberland." The scene has the Sheepbed mudstone in the foreground and rises up through Gillespie Lake member to the Point Lake outcrop. These rocks record superimposed ancient lake and stream deposits that offered past environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. Rocks here were exposed about 70 million years ago by removal of overlying layers due to erosion by the wind. (Dec. 24, 2012).
File Reference # 1003_581THA