Multimedia Gallery
Replica of Ranger 7 lunar probe made from parts of test vehicles. Replica is on display in the National Air and Space Museum.
This is a typical radio range receiver used in the late 1930s on private airplanes.
The Fokker C-2 America with the engines running on a specially built takeoff hill on Roosevelt Field before Richard Byrd's transatlantic attempt.
Distance flier and polar explorer
The view from the rim of Bonneville Crater on Mars.
A corn and soybean farmer from Rippey, Iowa.
Farmer Roy Bardole, seated in his office, views an agricultural GPS image on his computer monitor while field maps are laid out on his desk.
Farmer Roy Bardole seated at the controls of his combine in a cornfield on farm in Iowa. A GPS guidance system display is mounted at the top center on right side of cab.
This atomic clock was built for the first GPS satellites in the late 1970s.
Ruth Elder was an aviatrix of the 1920s and 1930s who attempted a transatlantic flight with George Haldeman in 1927.
