Photos from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) / 1950s Era


Photo of Able, a rhesus monkey that traveled to space.
Able 		Photo of Able, a rhesus monkey that traveled to space.
Able 		Photo of Able, a rhesus monkey that traveled to space.
Able
Photo of Able, a rhesus monkey that traveled to space.
Able 		Photo of monkeys Able and Miss Baker aboard the US Navy fleet tug USS Kiowa, along with 2 Navy personnel. Life preserver in center of photo inscribed with U.S.S. Kiowa ATF 72
Monkeys Able and Baker
US Navy fleet tug USS Kiowa 		Photo of monkeys Able and Miss Baker on a table before photograhpers at a press conference.
Able and Miss Baker
Photo of an officer in dress uniform, pretending to cut a large rocket cake with a saber for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's first birthday. The cake has a banner that says HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Army Ballistic Missile Agency 1st Birthday 		Photo of Army Ballistic Missile Agency activation ceremonty, with soldiers in formation and an officer in the background reading proclamation.
Army Ballistic Missile Agency Activation 		Photo of Army Ballistic Missile Agency activation ceremonty, with soldiers in formation and an officer in the background reading proclamation.
ABMA Activation
Photo of Army Ballistic Missile Agency activation ceremony, soldiers raising the American flag and agency banner up a flag pole, and other soldiers in formation in front of agency headquarters.
ABMA Activation 		Photo of U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Command and Army Ballistic Missile Agency headquarters building entrance, with an Army military policeman in foreground.
Headquarters 		Aerial photo of Army Ballistic Missile Agency area 57 building complex.
ABMA Area 57

ABMA Complex 26 Blockhouse
ABMA Complex 26 Blockhouse
ABMA Complex 26 Blockhouse
Group photo of top officials from Army Ballistic Missile Agency's famous Development Operations Division in June 1959. Left to right are: Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, Director — Research Projects Office; Dr. H. Hoelzer, Director — Computation Laboratory; K.L. Heimburg, Director — Test Laboratory; Dr. E.D. Geissler, Director — Systems Analysis & Reliability Laboratory; Dr. W. Haeussermann, Director — Guidance and Control Laboratory; Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director — Development Operations Division; W.A. Mrazek, Director — Structures and Mechanics Laboratory; Hans Hueter, Director — System Support Equipment Laboratory; Eberhard Rees, Deputy Director — Development Operations Division; Dr. Kurt Debus, Director — Missile Firing Laboratory; H.H. Maus, Director — Fabrication and Assembly Engineering Laboratory.
ABMA’s Development Operations Division
June 1959
 
ABMA Fabrication Lab Area 59

ABMA Facilities - 1958
ABMA Facilities - 1959
ABMA Facilities - 1959

ABMA Facilities - 1959
ABMA Facilities - 1959
ABMA Facilities - 1959

ABMA Facilities - 1959
ABMA Facilities - 1959
ABMA Facilities - 1959

ABMA Facilities - 1959
ABMA Facilities - 1959
ABMA Facilities - 1959

ABMA Facilities - 1959
ABMA Guidance Control Lab - 1959
Ordnance Conference
1957

Ordnance Conference
1957
Army Transfer to NASA
Army Transfer to NASA

Miss Baker
Miss Baker
Miss Baker

Miss Baker
Miss Baker
WAC Corporal Sounding Rocket

WAC Corporal Sounding Rocket
President Eisenhower
Explorer I

Explorer I
Explorer I
Explorer I

Explorer I
Explorer I
Explorer I

Explorer I
Explorer I
Explorer II

Explorer III
Explorer V
Explorer VI

Explorer VII
Explorer VII
HERMES Guided Missile

Jet Vest
Jet Vest
Jet Vest

Jet Vest
Juno 2
Juno 2

Juno 2 - 1958
Juno 2, Pioneer III
Juno 2, Pioneer IV

LIFE Magazine Cover
Madison County
Mercury Redstone

Mercury Redstone
Mercury Redstone
Multiple Rocket Launcher

Nike Hercules
Huntsville 1957
Recovered Jupiter Nose Cones
Nose Cones

OGMS 3rd Birthday
Feb 19, 1956
Ordnance Rocket Center
Engine Section - Jul 10, 1950
Post Pool - 1950s

Projext Orbiter - Mar 17, 1954
Project Mercury Astronauts
Project Mercury Astronauts

Redstone 40th Missile Group
Redstone 40th Missile Group
Redstone Arsenal Service Awards, 1958

Redstone Rocket - Feb 05, 1952
Redstone Rocket - Jul 28, 1953
Redstone Rocket Pinup
Oct 6, 1955

Ex-POWS Renlistment 1953
Redstone Arsenal Baseball
August 2, 1955
Redstone Arsenal Finance Office

Redstone Arsenal Football
September 1955
Redstone Arsenal Mailroom
1942
Redstone Arsenal Staff Cars
1957

Space Journal - June 26, 1957
U.S. Citizenship Ceremony
April 14, 1955


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