Rocket Engines

AIRCRAFT ENGINE RESEARCH LABORATORY AERL TURBO JET COMBUSTOR MODEL SETUP NASA Identifier: C-1946-15610

Testing advanced designs for high-speed aircraft in 1948, an engineer makes final calibrations to a model mounted in the 6 x 6 Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field More

The North American X-15 settles to the lakebed after a research flight from what is now the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The X-15 was a rocket-powered aircraft 50 ft long with a wing More

NASA research pilot Milt Thompson is seen here with the mock-up of X-15 #3 that was later installed at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. Milton 0. Thompson was a research pilot, Chief More

A Boeing Delta II rocket lights its main engine and nine solid-fueled boosters. The Delta launch vehicle program was initiated in the late 1950s by NASA. The Delta II has nearly a 99 percent mission success rat More

E-2822 This inflight photograph of the X-2 (46-674) shows the twin set of shock-diamonds, characteristic of supersonic conditions in the exhaust plume from the two-chamber rocket engine. The Curtiss-Wright XLR- More

This photo shows the X-15-1 (56-6670) rocket powered research aircraft as it was rolled out in 1958. At this time, the XLR-99 rocket engine was not ready, so to make the low-speed flights (below Mach 3), the X- More

After the initial M2-F1 airtow flights, the NASA Flight Research Center used the vehicle to check out other pilots. Bruce Peterson was scheduled to take over as the M2-F1 project pilot from Milt Thompson, while More

After the initial M2-F1 airtow flights, the NASA Flight Research Center used the vehicle to check out other pilots. Bruce Peterson was scheduled to take over as the M2-F1 project pilot from Milt Thompson, while More

EC93-41012-6 NASA research pilot Milt Thompson is seen here with the mock-up of X-15 #3 that was later installed at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. Milton 0. Thompson was a research More

EC93-41012-5 NASA research pilot Milt Thompson stands next to a mock-up of X-15 number 3 that was later installed at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. Milton 0. Thompson was a researc More

The North American X-15 settles to the lakebed after a research flight from what is now the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The X-15 was a rocket-powered aircraft 50 ft long with a wing More

NASA research pilot Milt Thompson stands next to a mock-up of X-15 number 3 that was later installed at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. Milton 0. Thompson was a research pilot, Chie More

A Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 series aircraft on display at an Open House at NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit or High-Speed Flight Research Station hangar on South Base of Edwards Air Force Base, California. (The More

A Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 series aircraft on display at an Open House at NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit or High-Speed Flight Research Station hangar on South Base of Edwards Air Force Base, California. (The More

TWO ROCKET INJECTORS USING WATER FLOW AND LIQUID NITROGEN FLOW NASA Identifier: C-1951-27692

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 and two of the NACA pilots that flew the aircraft. The one on the viewer's left is Robert Champine with the other being Herbert Hoover. Champine made a total of 13 flights in More

TWO ROCKET INJECTORS USING WATER FLOW AND LIQUID NITROGEN FLOW NASA Identifier: C-1951-27691

ROCKET MISSILE UNMOUNTED AND MOUNTED ON F-82 AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1951-28898

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 and two of the NACA pilots that flew the aircraft. The one on the viewer's left is Robert Champine with the other being Herbert Hoover. Champine made a total of 13 flights in More

ROCKET MISSILE UNMOUNTED AND MOUNTED ON F-82 AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1951-28899

BUFFING FINISH ON THIOKOL ROCKET MISSILE NASA Identifier: C-1952-30786

E-713 This 1952 NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station inflight photograph of the Douglas D-558-1 #3 Skystreak. Even with partial cloud cover the white aircraft was easy to see. The D-558-1 reflected NACA (Nat More

Viewed in this 1954 photograph is the NACA High Speed Flight Research Station's D-558-2 #2 (144), an all rocket powered Skyrocket. Like the X-1, the D-558-2 had a fuselage shaped like a .50 caliber bullet. Unli More

AUXILIARY INLET MODEL IN NO. 1 SUPERSONIC TUNNEL NASA Identifier: C-1955-37479

DETONATION RIG - SCALE MODEL SCRUBBER OF CELL 22 OLD ROCKET LABORATORY LOCATED IN PICNIC AREA BEFORE DETONATION TESTS NASA Identifier: C-1955-40434

GENERAL ELECTRIC GE R-20 5500 POUND ROCKET ENGINE AND INJECTOR TO SHOW CONSTRUCTION NASA Identifier: C-1955-37771

5000 POUND EXPERIMENTAL TUBULAR ROCKET NASA Identifier: C-1955-37903 Public domain photograph of NASA Glenn Research Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

ROCKET TUNNEL DIVERGENT AND STRAIGHT SECTIONS NASA Identifier: C-1956-41755

This inflight photograph of the X-2 (46-674) shows the twin set of shock-diamonds, characteristic of supersonic conditions in the exhaust plume from the two-chamber rocket engine. The Curtiss-Wright XLR-25 rock More

This inflight photograph of the X-2 (46-674) shows the twin set of shock-diamonds, characteristic of supersonic conditions in the exhaust plume from the two-chamber rocket engine. The Curtiss-Wright XLR-25 rock More

This photo was taken June 18, 1956 on Rogers Dry Lakebed after Flight 7 of the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E with NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Joseph `Joe' Walker at the controls. The first genera More

2 CONE SUPERSONIC INLET MODEL MACH 2.95 IN BLOCK TUNNEL NASA Identifier: C-1956-43393

This photo was taken June 18, 1956 on Rogers Dry Lakebed after Flight 7 of the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E with NACA High-Speed Flight Station test pilot Joseph `Joe' Walker at the controls. The first genera More

Viewed in this 1954 photograph is the NACA High Speed Flight Research Station's D-558-2 #2 (144), an all rocket powered Skyrocket. Like the X-1, the D-558-2 had a fuselage shaped like a .50 caliber bullet. Unli More

ROCKET TUNNEL DIVERGENT AND STRAIGHT SECTIONS NASA Identifier: C-1956-41756

ROCKET TUNNEL DIVERGENT AND STRAIGHT SECTIONS NASA Identifier: C-1956-41757

ALTITUDE ROCKET TEST RIG NASA Identifier: C-1956-43521 Public domain photograph of NASA rocket launch, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of NASA Glenn More

STING FOR ROCKET TUNNEL STUDY MODEL FOR ROCKET TUNNEL NASA Identifier: C-1956-42371

SUPERSONIC INLET MODEL IN THE VARIABLE REYNOLDS NUMBER TUNNEL VRNT NASA Identifier: C-1956-42272

ROCKET SLED DEMONSTRATION BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN STAPP AT HANGAR - VOLUNTEER IN SEAT IS A HOWARD HASBROOK NASA Identifier: C-1956-41773

L57-4827 caption: "Take off of a five-stage missile research rocket from Wallops Island in 1957. The first two stages propelled the model to about 100,000 feet; the last three stages were fired on a descending More

ASSEMBLY OF 20K ROCKET ENGINE IN ROCKET LAB SHOP NASA Identifier: C-1958-49343

This photo of the X-1A includes graphs of the flight data from Maj. Charles E. Yeager's Mach 2.44 flight on December 12, 1953. (This was only a few days short of the 50th anniversary of the Wright brothers' fir More

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E is shown here in 1955 on the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The X-1E was actually the extensively rebuilt X-1-2 (46-063). It had a new thin wing, More

ISENTROPIC ROCKET NOZZLE 25 TO 1 RATIO INSTALLATION IN THE PROPULSION SYSTEMS LABORATORY PSL NO. 2 TUNNEL NASA Identifier: C-1958-48831

FLARED EXIT MODEL INSTALLATION IN THE 10X10 FOOT SUPERSONIC WIND TUNNEL AT 0 AND 10 DEGREES ANGLE OF ATTACK NASA Identifier: C-1958-49291

The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E is shown here in 1955 on the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The X-1E was actually the extensively rebuilt X-1-2 (46-063). It had a new thin wing, More

ROBERT GRAHAM WITH ROCKET COMPONENTS FOR CLEVELAND PRESS NEWSPAPER SPONSORED TALK NASA Identifier: C-1958-49063

4000 POUND ROCKET MODEL NASA Identifier: C-1959-52029 Public domain photograph of NASA Glenn Research Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

ROCKET STRUCTURE DYNAMICS TEST FACILITY NASA Identifier: C-1959-52207 Public domain photograph of NASA Glenn Research Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

CARBON DIOXIDE CO2 DELUGE SYSTEM AT THE SOUTH 40 ROCKET ENGINE TEST FACILITY RETF NASA Identifier: C-1959-50820

An examination of the Aerojet-General "Aerobee 150A" propulsion system in February 1960. James Hansen described this as follows: "As for the technical definition of the rocket...the Langley engineers tried to k More

8 CLUSTER COLD ROCKET MODEL IN THE 8X6 FOOT WIND TUNNEL TEST SECTION NASA Identifier: C-1959-50459

ROCKET STRUCTURE DYNAMICS TEST FACILITY NASA Identifier: C-1959-52209 Public domain photograph of NASA Glenn Research Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Technician D.A. Dereng examines power plug in 1/10-scale model of Northrop Snark missile with Deacon booster at Wallops, November 1950. Joseph Shortal described the missile as follows: "The Snark was to be the More

CHARLES HECKELMOSER AND DON WILFERT WITH AN ATLAS ROCKET MODEL NASA Identifier: C-1959-50812

CARBON DIOXIDE CO2 DELUGE SYSTEM AT THE SOUTH 40 ROCKET ENGINE TEST FACILITY RETF NASA Identifier: C-1959-50819

The X-15 (56-6670), seen here on the lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, California, was still equipped with two XLR-11 engines pending installation of the XLR-99 engine, which first flew on November 15 More

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ROCKET SETUP IN THE PROPULSION SYSTEMS LABORATORY PSL NO. 2 NASA Identifier: C-1960-53759

ROCKET SETUP IN THE PROPULSION SYSTEMS LABORATORY PSL NO. 2 NASA Identifier: C-1960-53760

SCOUT (Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test) Project Office Files Public domain photograph of NASA rocket launch, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

SCOUT (Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test) Project Office Files Public domain photograph of NASA rocket launch, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

ANNULAR ROCKET MODEL MOUNTED IN THE 10X10 FOOT WIND TUNNEL NASA Identifier: C-1960-54350

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NASA engineers successfully tested a Russian-built rocket engine on November 4, 1998 at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Advanced Engine Test Facility, which had been used for testing the Saturn V F-1 en More

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SCOUT (Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test) Project Office Files Public domain photograph of NASA rocket launch, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

DISPLAY FOR AMERICAN ROCKET SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND AND AKRON NASA Identifier: C-1960-52711

SOLAR TANK NASA Identifier: C-1960-53994 Public domain photograph of NASA Glenn Research Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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EC88-0180-1The X-15 #2 56-6671 launches away from the B-52 mothership with its rocket engine ignited. The white patches near the middle of the ship are frost from the liquid oxygen used in the propulsion system More

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The Washington Monument is illuminated by a projection of a Saturn V rocket July 18, 2019, during a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, in which man first walked on the moon. The U.S. More

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This close-up, head-on view of NASA's SR-71A Blackbird in flight shows the aircraft with an experimental test fixture mounted on the back of the airplane. Two SR-71 aircraft have been used by NASA as testbeds f More

Dryden researchers conducted several programs involving aircraft capable of attaining altitudes above 70,000 feet and cruising at Mach 3 (more than 2,000 mph, or three times the speed of sound). Airplanes such More

This photo shows the X-15-1 (56-6670) rocket powered research aircraft as it was rolled out in 1958. At this time, the XLR-99 rocket engine was not ready, so to make the low-speed flights (below Mach 3), the X- More

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SCOUT (Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test) Project Office Files Public domain photograph of NASA rocket launch, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

SCOUT (Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test) Project Office Files Public domain photograph of NASA rocket launch, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Jeff Hansell, right, explains functions of a space shuttle main engine to Pearl River Community College Aviation Maintenance Technology Program students. Christopher Bryon, left, of More

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Jeff Hansell, right, explains functions of a space shuttle main engine to Pearl River Community College Aviation Maintenance Technology Program students. Christopher Bryon, left, of More

This item is a photograph of a Scientist Standing next to a display of a Scout Satellite Launch Vehiclethat was part of an exhibit display at the British Science Museum in 1984. SCOUT (Solid Controlled Orbital More

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The X-15 (56-6670), seen here on the lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, California, was still equipped with two XLR-11 engines pending installation of the XLR-99 engine, which first flew on November 15 More

4 CLUSTER ROCKET MODEL IN TUNNEL AND THE RELATED PIPING ATOP THE TEST SECTION NASA Identifier: C-1960-52827

20K COMBUSTION OSCILLATION STUDIES AT THE ROCKET ENGINE TEST FACILITY RETF SOUTH 40 NASA Identifier: C-1960-54597

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5000 POUND THRUST H2 F2 REGENERATIVELY COOLED ROCKET ENGINE FOR HEAT TRANSFER STUDIES - ENGINE G-14 NASA Identifier: C-1962-63078

5000 POUND THRUST H2 F2 REGENERATIVELY COOLED ROCKET ENGINE FOR HEAT TRANSFER STUDIES - ENGINE G-14 NASA Identifier: C-1962-63080

5000 POUND THRUST H2 F2 REGENERATIVELY COOLED ROCKET ENGINE FOR HEAT TRANSFER STUDIES - ENGINE G14 NASA Identifier: C-1962-61733

5000 POUND THRUST H2 F2 REGENERATIVELY COOLED ROCKET ENGINE FOR HEAT TRANSFER STUDIES - ENGINE G-14 NASA Identifier: C-1962-63081