A new block 2 engine is lowered onto a transport vehicle for a move to...
A new block 2 engine is lowered onto a transport vehicle for a move to the Orbiter Processing Facility. There it will be installed for its first flight on the orbiter Atlantis, on mission STS-104. The Block II ... More
Pacific Furnace, 6633 Canoga Avenue, Canoga Park, Los Angeles County, ...
Significance: The Pacific Brazing Furnace is located at the south end of the Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park, California. This facility played a key role in the development of the technology for using hydrog... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne crane operator Joe Ferrante (left) lowers SSME 2058, the first SSME fully assembled at KSC, onto an en... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne technicians prepare to move SSME 2058, the first SSME fully assembled at KSC. Move conductor Bob Brack... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne quality inspector Nick Grimm (center) monitors the work of technicians on his team as they lower SSME ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, technicians on the Hyster forklift maneuver main engine No. 3 into place in Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured by P... More
Two boosters are lifted into place, while a third waits on the ground,...
Two boosters are lifted into place, while a third waits on the ground, for installation onto the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket that will launch Deep Space 1 at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Delta II ro... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- As the giant forklift moves closer to At...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- As the giant forklift moves closer to Atlantis, workers keep watch as the new block 2 engine nears its installation point. The work is being done in the Orbiter Processing Facility... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Space Shuttle Main Engine...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility oversee lifting a new Space Shuttle main engine (block 2 engine) off its stand. The engine will be moved to the Orbiter... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne technicians prepare to move SSME 2058, the first SSME fully assembled at KSC. Move conductor Bob Brack... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne move conductor Bob Brackett (left) oversees the work of technicians on his team as they secure SSME 20... More
(Left) A solid rocket booster is lifted for installation onto the Boei...
(Left) A solid rocket booster is lifted for installation onto the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket that will launch Deep Space 1 at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Delta II rockets are medium capacity expen... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A new block 2 engine, situated on a gian...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A new block 2 engine, situated on a giant forklift, is moved toward the aft of Atlantis where it will be installed. The work is being done in the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3.... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne technicians prepare to move SSME 2058, the first SSME fully assembled at KSC. The engine will be lifte... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne technicians lift SSME 2058, the first SSME fully assembled at KSC. The engine is being lifted from its... More
Pacific Furnace, 6633 Canoga Avenue, Canoga Park, Los Angeles County, ...
Significance: The Pacific Brazing Furnace is located at the south end of the Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park, California. This facility played a key role in the development of the technology for using hydrog... More
CANOGA PARK, Calif. -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne hot-fires a launch a...
CANOGA PARK, Calif. -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne hot-fires a launch abort engine for The Boeing Co., which is developing its CST-100 spacecraft for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Under its fixed-price contrac... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne technicians steady SSME 2058, the first SSME fully assembled at KSC. The engine is being lifted from i... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne crane operator Joe Ferrante (second from right) lifts SSME 2058, the first SSME fully assembled at KSC... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, technicians on the Hyster forklift maneuver main engine No. 3 into place in Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured by P... More
CANOGA PARK, Calif. -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne hot-fires a launch a...
CANOGA PARK, Calif. -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne hot-fires a launch abort engine for The Boeing Co., which is developing its CST-100 spacecraft for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Under its fixed-price contrac... More
A new block 2 engine is lowered onto a transport vehicle for a move to...
A new block 2 engine is lowered onto a transport vehicle for a move to the Orbiter Processing Facility. There it will be installed for its first flight on the orbiter Atlantis, on mission STS-104. The Block II ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, technicians on the Hyster forklift maneuver main engine No. 3 into place in Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured by ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, technicians on the Hyster forklift are ready to install main engine No. 3 on Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured b... More
Saturn Apollo Program - single H-1 engine test-fired
A close-up image of the single H-1 engine was test-fired at Canoga Park, California. Initial development of testing for the H-1 engine took place in the engineering facilities at Rocketdyne's main plant in Cano... More
A solid rocket booster (left) is raised for installation onto the Boei...
A solid rocket booster (left) is raised for installation onto the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket that will launch Deep Space 1 at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Delta II rockets are medium capacity expen... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An upgraded Space Shuttle main engine (b...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An upgraded Space Shuttle main engine (block 2 engine) sits in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility. The new engine will be installed for its first flight on the orbit... More
Workers in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility prepare a...
Workers in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility prepare a new Space Shuttle main engine (block 2 engine) for its move to the Orbiter Processing Facility. The engine will be installed for its first ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1, technicians on the Hyster forklift move a main engine into place on Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured by Boeing Roc... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1, the main engine is in place on Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured by Boeing Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, Calif., and ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, technicians on the Hyster forklift maneuver main engine No. 3 into place in Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured by ... More
A booster is raised off a truck bed and prepared for lifting to the Bo...
A booster is raised off a truck bed and prepared for lifting to the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket that will launch Deep Space 1 at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Delta II rockets are medium capacity exp... More
Three boosters are lifted into place at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral...
Three boosters are lifted into place at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, for installation onto the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket that will launch Deep Space 1. Delta II rockets are medium capacity expenda... More
A solid rocket booster is maneuvered into place for installation on th...
A solid rocket booster is maneuvered into place for installation on the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket that will launch Deep Space 1 at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Delta II rockets are medium capacity... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mike Cosgrove (front) and Bob Petrie (be...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mike Cosgrove (front) and Bob Petrie (behind), both with Boeing/Rocketdyne, look over the upgraded Space Shuttle main engine (block 2 engine) as it sits in the Space Shuttle Main E... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The new block 2 engine for the orbiter A...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The new block 2 engine for the orbiter Atlantis is moved into place next to the other two engines. The work is being done in the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3. The engine will ... More
Saturn Apollo Program - the upper stage rocket engine
Smokeless flame juts from the diffuser of a unique vacuum chamber in which the upper stage rocket engine, the hydrogen fueled J-2, was tested at a simulated space altitude in excess of 60,000 feet. The smoke yo... More
Saturn Apollo Program. NASA public domain image colelction.
This image depicts an overall view of the vertical test stand for testing the J-2 engine at Rocketdyne's Propulsion Field Laboratory, in the Santa Susana Mountains, near Canoga Park, California. The J-2 engines... More
A Boeing Delta 7326 rocket with two solid rocket boosters attached sit...
A Boeing Delta 7326 rocket with two solid rocket boosters attached sits on Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Delta II rockets are medium capacity expendable launch vehicles derived from the Delta fami... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The transport vehicle carrying a new blo...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The transport vehicle carrying a new block 2 engine leaves the Space Station Main Engine Processing Facility for a short trip to Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3. The new engine w... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility ba...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, technicians on the Hyster forklift maneuver main engine No. 3 into place in Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured b... More
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN Ventura County, Calif., takes time with Army veteran Isador Komsky during the Spirit of '45 celebration at the Topanga Park Retirement Living facility. Full ... More
Saturn Apollo Program - single H-1 engine test-fired
In this photograph, the single H-1 engine was test-fired at Canoga Park, California. Initial development of testing for the H-1 engine took place in the engineering facilities at Rocketdyne's main plant in Cano... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Looking over the upgraded Space Shuttle ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Looking over the upgraded Space Shuttle main engine (block 2 engine) in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility are Bob Petrie (left) and Mike Cosgrove (right). Both are ... More
Workers in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility get a new...
Workers in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility get a new Space Shuttle main engine (block 2 engine) ready to move to the Orbiter Processing Facility. The engine will be installed for its first fli... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne technicians lower SSME 2058, the first SSME fully assembled at KSC, onto an engine stand. The engine i... More
A booster is lifted for installation onto the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket...
A booster is lifted for installation onto the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket that will launch Deep Space 1 at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Delta II rockets are medium capacity expendable launch vehicle... More
A booster is lifted off a truck for installation onto the Boeing Delta...
A booster is lifted off a truck for installation onto the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket that will launch Deep Space 1 at Launch Pad 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. Delta II rockets are medium capacity expendable la... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The transport vehicle carrying a new blo...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The transport vehicle carrying a new block 2 engine arrives at Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3. There the new engine will be installed on the orbiter Atlantis, on mission STS-104... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In In the Orbiter Processing Facility ba...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1, a Hyster forklift maneuvers a main engine into position for installation into Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1, a Hyster forklift moves a main engine into position for installation into Discovery. The main engine configuration is manufactured by Boei... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1, a Hyster forklift moves a main engine toward the aft of Discovery as technicians stand by for insertion and installation. The main engine... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Engine No. 3 is ready to be installed ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Engine No. 3 is ready to be installed on Discovery in the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3. The main engine configuration is manufactured by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in Canoga... More
Saturn V J-2 engines - Saturn Apollo Program
J-2 engines for the Saturn IB/Saturn V launch vehicles are lined up in the assembly area at Rocketdyne's manufacturing plant in Canoga Park, California. Five J-2 engines provided more than 1,000,000 pounds of t... More
CANOGA PARK, Calif. -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne hot-fires a launch a...
CANOGA PARK, Calif. -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne hot-fires a launch abort engine for The Boeing Co., which is developing its CST-100 spacecraft for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Under its fixed-price contrac... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A new block 2 engine heads toward Atlant...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A new block 2 engine heads toward Atlantis in Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3. There the new engine will be installed for its first flight on Atlantis, for mission STS-104. The B... More
Workers in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility oversee t...
Workers in the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility oversee the movement of a new Space Shuttle main engine (block 2 engine) toward the transport vehicle in the foreground. The engine will be moved to ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) P...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility, Boeing-Rocketdyne move conductor Bob Brackett (center) oversees the work of technicians on his team as they remove the c... More
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN Ventura County, Calif., listens to Gloria, wife of Harold Abramson, tell the story of Abramson’s draft lottery number being the last number drawn one month ... More
Builder 1st Class Douglas Hoffman, NAVOPSPTCEN Ventura
Builder 1st Class Douglas Hoffman, NAVOPSPTCEN Ventura County, Calif., petty officer in charge of color guard, shakes the hand of Navy veteran Samuel Haberman, who served aboard the USS Los Angeles during the K... More
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Christi Ward, Navy Reserve
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Christi Ward, Navy Reserve Operational Health Support Unit, Camp Pendleton, Calif., spends time with U.S. Navy veteran George Wendel and learns about his career both in the Navy aboa... More
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN Ventura County, Calif., compares military careers with former U.S. Marine George Barry, a World War II and Korean conflict veteran, during the Spirit of '45 ... More
Pacific Furnace, 6633 Canoga Avenue, Canoga Park, Los Angeles County, ...
Significance: The Pacific Brazing Furnace is located at the south end of the Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park, California. This facility played a key role in the development of the technology for using hydrog... More
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer of Naval Operational
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer of Naval Operational Support Center Ventura County, Calif., speaks with Gloria and Harold Abramson. Full time support and Navy reserve component Sailors visited the Topan... More
The 91st Training Division’s Officers stand proud
Col. Ranelle Manaois, the smallest officer at the 91st Training Division, and Lt. Col. Richard Hulet, the tallest officer at the command, stand at the unit’s landmark rock in front of the headquarters building ... More
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Reina Reyes, NAVOPSPTCEN
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Reina Reyes, NAVOPSPTCEN Ventura County, Calif., and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Christi Ward, Navy Reserve Operational Health Support Unit, Camp Pendleton, Calif., spend time with S... More
Pacific Furnace, 6633 Canoga Avenue, Canoga Park, Los Angeles County, ...
Significance: The Pacific Brazing Furnace is located at the south end of the Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park, California. This facility played a key role in the development of the technology for using hydrog... More
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN Ventura County, Calif., listens as Edward Cunningham speaks of his time in the U.S. Army Air Corps which evolved into the U.S. Army Air Forces, and later the... More
Pacific Furnace, 6633 Canoga Avenue, Canoga Park, Los Angeles County, ...
Significance: The Pacific Brazing Furnace is located at the south end of the Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park, California. This facility played a key role in the development of the technology for using hydrog... More
Pacific Furnace, 6633 Canoga Avenue, Canoga Park, Los Angeles County, ...
Significance: The Pacific Brazing Furnace is located at the south end of the Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park, California. This facility played a key role in the development of the technology for using hydrog... More
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN
Capt. Ronald Oswald, commanding officer, NAVOPSPTCEN Ventura County, Calif., and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Christi Ward, Navy Reserve Operational Health Support Unit, Camp Pendleton, Calif., compares military... More
NMCB-3 Seabees Honor the Fallen in Memorial Day Parade
190527-N-TP198-1001 PORT HUENEME, Calif. (May 27, 2019) Canoga Park residents walk past two up-armored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles and an up-armored MK28 cargo truck belonging to Naval Mobile Co... More