Guide to the AAAE: Archives of American Aerospace Exploration

Manuscript Collections

William J. Alford, Jr.

Co-designer of the outboard pivot that made variable-sweep wings possible and former head of the Advanced Transport Technology Program at NASA-Langley.

[Aviation Brochures and Pamphlets]

Advertising brochures and pamphlets from aviation companies such as Cessna and Boeing.

James J. Avitabile

Air Force officer assigned to NASA's spacecraft simulator complex as an astronaut mission operations instructor (1965-1967).

John V. Becker

Retired NASA-Langley transonic flight researcher, pioneer in the development of hypersonic research aircraft such as the X-15, and author of The High Speed Frontier: Case Histories of Four NACA Programs, 1920-1950.

Edward H. Cahill

Pioneer in aerial mapping and designer of first mapping camera used in an airplane.

Evert B. Clark

Former aerospace journalist for the New York Times and Newsweek Magazine.

John D. Clark

Chemist who led the team of scientists that developed the rocket fuel used in the Apollo program at Pickatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, in the 1950s.

Michael Collins

Apollo XI astronaut and former director of the National Air and Space Museum.

Blake W. Corson, Jr.

Former head of the 16 Foot Transonic Tunnel Branch at NASA-Langley.

John E. Duberg

Former assistant director of the Langley Research Center.

G. Grahame Duce

President of Duce Aeronautical Research.

Robert R. Gilruth

First director of the Manned Spacecraft Center and before that head of NASA's Space Task Group.

Melvin N. Gough

Former chief test pilot at NACA Langley and first director of spacecraft testing for NASA.

Samuel Herrick

Pioneer theoretician of space travel who instituted the world's first university-level course on astronautics at UCLA in 1946.

Henry J. Kelley

Former Christopher C. Kraft Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech and former assistant chief of research for the Grumman Aerospace Corporation.

Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.

Flight director for NASA during the Mercury and Gemini programs and director of the Johnson Space Center from 1972 to 1982.

F. Edward McLean

Former head of NASA's Supersonic Technology Office and author of Supersonic Cruise Technology.

[NASA Project Tapes]

Various projects, including news conferences from the Gemini Program, Kennedy [Space Center], John Glenn and other astronauts.

Thornton L. Page

Co-developer of the S-201 far ultraviolet camera/ spectograph for space photography.

Otis J. Parker

Inventor of the "jet shoes" locomotion device.

W. Dale Parker

Management specialist in the Gemini spacecraft production program.

John T. Parsons

Founder of the Parsons Corporation and developer of the concept of numerical control for computer-controlled manufacture of complex aircraft structures.

William Hewitt Phillips

Former NACA and NASA Langley Research Center aerospace engineer; chief of Flight Dynamics and Control Division from 1970 to 1979. Author of Journey in Aeronautical Research: a Career at NASA Langley Research Center.

Edward C. Polhamus

NASA-Langley Distinguished Research Associate, authority on vortex lift aerodynamics, and co- developer of the outboard-pivot technology for variable-sweep wings.

James R. Randolph

Physicist, science fiction novelist and proponent of space travel in the 1920s and 1930s.

Hartley A. Soule

Former chief of research and former assistant director for high-speed aircraft at NASA Langley.

Robert E. Taylor

Pilot for Pan American Airways and the Reserve Army Air Corps in the early 1940s.

John W. Townsend

Former director of the Goddard Space Center.

Marjorie Rhodes Townsend

Former project manager for small astronomy satellites at the Goddard Space Center.

We welcome inquiries from researchers as well as from those who have aerospace-related materials they may wish to donate. For further information, contact:

Special Collections (specref@vt.edu)
Archives of American Aerospace Exploration
Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
PO Box 90001
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
(540) 231-6308 FAX (540) 231-9263

---

AAAE HomePage