Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Earl A. Thornton Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-026
Abstract
The collection includes research files, personal notes, audio recordings, videocassettes, photographs, and publications collected by engineer and professor Earl A. Thornton on the fields of aviation, aeronautics, and aerospace.
Dates:
1885 - 2000
John W. Townsend, Jr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-068
Scope and Contents
This collection contains six boxes of John W. Townsend, Jr.'s personal and professional papers from 1949 until his retirement from corporate and government aerospace work in 1990. In addition to profressional correspondence, memos, and subject files, there are extensive travel files from 1949-1968 and 1985-1990, congressional testimony on NASA projects from 1982-1986, and files on the history of the Upper Air Rocket Research Program at the Naval Research Laboratory from about 1956-1958....
Dates:
1949 - 1990
Marjorie Rhodes Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-003
Abstract
Marjorie Rhodes Townsend (1930-2015) was the first women to earn an engineering degree at George Washington University, receiving her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1951. After eight years at the Naval Research Laboratory, she moved to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Goddard Space Flight Center in 1959, where she worked until 1980. Townsend was project manager for three Small Astronomy Satellites (SAS, 1966-1975) and for Applications Explorer Missions...
Dates:
1960-1994, n.d.
William Hewitt Phillips Papers, 1942-1994 (Ms2005-019)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2005-019
Dates:
1942 - 1994