Rockwell International Corporation

04/03/2025

04/03/2025

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilmThis short 1975 film from Rockwell International’s Sp...

11/22/2019

The International Space Station robotic Canadarm2 grapples the Leonardo Multi-purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) from the payload bay of the docked space shuttle Discovery for relocation to a port on the Harmony node of the International Space Station. STS-131.

09/28/2018

08/17/2018

The two crews for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) are photographed at the Rockwell International Space Division's Orbiter assembly facility at Palmdale, California on the day of the rollout of the Shuttle Orbiter 101 "Enterprise" spacecraft. They are, left to right, Astronauts C. Gordon Fullerton, pilot of the first crew; Fred W. Haise Jr., commander of the first crew; Joe H. Engle, commander of the second crew; and Richard H. Truly, pilot of the second crew. The DC-9 size airplane-like Orbiter 101 is in the background. 17 September 1976

05/10/2018

05/05/2018

Columbia Space Shuttle astronauts Commander Thomas K. Mattingly and Pilot Henry W. Hartsfield salute President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, as the astronauts begin the customary walk-around inspection of the orbiter after landing. Mattingly and Hartsfield were the first to land the Shuttle on a concrete runway. The landing proved that the shuttle could return safely to a precisely targeted location on Earth.

05/05/2018

The black Fibrous Refractory Composite Insulation ( FRCI ) tiles of the orbiters.

04/13/2018

Legends in Space Aviation & Exploration
Dale D. Myers
North American Rockwell
Program Manager of the Apollo program's Command and Service Module Program

In 1963, Dale worked for what had become Rockwell International, and the following year he began to contract work for NASA's space program. From 1964, he was the Program Manager of the Apollo program's Command/ Service Module Program. After a fire destroyed Apollo 1 in 1967, much of the program's management was discharged; Dale, however, was retained.

Soon after he had been a key member of the team that successfully landed Apollo 11 on the moon, Dale joined the Space Shuttle program in 1969.

In 1970, Dale was promoted to Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight at NASA. In this role, he had responsibility for the planning, direction, ex*****on and evaluation of NASA's Manned Space Flight Program. He directed and had oversight of the Apollo Program of Lunar Exploration, the new Skylab Space Station Program, the new Space Shuttle Program, Cape Kennedy, Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama, and Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas.

Dale’s team at NASA planned the rescue of the stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft. His teams also sent four more missions to the moon and launched Skylab, America's first space station. He also orchestrated the meeting of US and Russian astronauts in space with the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

04/11/2018

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center pilot Tom McMurtry lands NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with Space Shuttle Discovery attached at Rockwell Aerospace's Palmdale, California, facility for nine months of scheduled maintenance. By its last mission, Discovery had flown 149 million miles (238 million km) in 39 missions, completed 5,830 orbits, and spent 365 days in orbit over 27 years. Discovery flew more flights than any other Orbiter Shuttle.