Marshall Space Flight Center 1960-1985: 25, anniversary report

achievements activities Apollo Telescope Mount Apollo-Soyuz Test Project assembly Astronomy astrophysics capabilities challenges checkout commitment to excellence concept contractor crew devel Director disciplines Earth Eberhard Rees effort employees ence External Tank flight experiments future hardware HEAO Hubble Space Telescope Huntsville in-house instruments laboratory launch vehicles lunar Main Engines major Marshall Center Marshall Space Flight Marshall's materials processing ment microgravity missile module moon MSFC NASA NASA's observatory operations orbit orbital laboratories PERMANENT PRESENCE pioneers planning problems propellant propulsion systems Redstone responsibility role satellite Saturn IB Saturn launch Saturn program Saturn vehicles scientific payloads simulation sion Skylab solar array Solid Rocket Boosters Space Flight Center space program space science Space Shuttle Space Station Space Telescope spacecraft Spacelab structural successful technical techniques test stands thermal THRUST INTO SPACE tion upper stage W. R. Lucas Wernher von Braun workshop X-ray