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Cunard Lusitania

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Cunard Lusitania
Divided Back PM 1908 Jan-10

Description:
Length 790 Feet Breadth 88 Feed; Gross Tonnage 32,500 Tons; Displacement Tonnage 45,000 Tons; Draught 37 Ft. 6 in; Height of Funnels: 155 Ft; Diameter of Funnels: 24 Ft; height of Masts, 216 Ft.; Speed 26 Knots

Ocean Liner Titanic Largest Steamer in the World 1912

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Ocean Liner Titanic Largest Steamer in the World 1912
Divided Back unused

Description:
Sunk by iceberg on maiden trip off Halifax, April 15, 1912: 1,600 people drowned. Length 882 feet; breadth 92 feet; number of steel decks 11; watertight bulkheads 15; passengers accommodated 2,500; crew 860; tonnage registered 45,000; tonnage displacement 66,000; cost $7,500,000

Str. City Of Grand Rapids

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Str. City Of Grand Rapids
Michigan (MI), White Border PM 1923 Jul-13

Pere Marquette Carferry 19

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Pere Marquette Carferry 19
White Border unused

Description:
Pere Marquette Railway Company bridges Lake Michigan with car ferries and provides means of quick service between the East and the West via the short route across Lake Michigan. Cars are placed between decks, capacity of each ferry being thirty cars.

Pere Marquette Carferry 21

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Pere Marquette Carferry 21
Michigan (MI), White Border unused

Description:
Pere Marquette Railway Company bridges Lake Michigan with car ferries and provides means of quick service between the East and the West via the short route across Lake Michigan. Cars are placed between decks, capacity of each ferry being thirty cars.

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:45 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
Irwin at Rover parked near LM, Mount Hadley in the background.

Apollo 8 Lunar Vehicle

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:45 +0100

Title:
Apollo 8 Lunar Vehicle
Chrome unused

Description:
Launch of Apollo 8 Astronauts, Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders, in a successful orbit of the Moon.

The Mighty Air Force Atlas IBM

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:45 +0100

Title:
The Mighty Air Force Atlas IBM
Chrome unused

Description:
The mighty Air Force Atlas ICBM stands poised on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral in readiness for its test flight

Sts-3

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:45 +0100

Title:
Sts-3
Chrome unused

Description:
STS-3 thunders aloft on March 22, 1982 at 11:00 AM. Columbia's third flight was manned by Commander Jack Lousma and Pilot Gordon Fullerton.

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:44 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
NASA Apollo Saturn V, 500 F facility vehicle enroute from NASA's vehicle assembly building to launch complex 39 A.

Entrance To Visitors Information Center

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:44 +0100

Title:
Entrance To Visitors Information Center
Chrome unused

Description:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:44 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
Aerial view of pad 39A with Apollo / Saturn V on Pad. Vehicle Assembly Building in background

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:44 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
The official emblem of the joint U.S. / USSR space mission. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project will be carried out by a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft and a U.S. Apollo spacecraft, which will rendezvous and dock in orbit.

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:44 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
The Apollo 7 spacecraft, atop a Saturn IB rocket, lifts off from Complex 34. The spacecraft achieved orbit to begin an 11-day mission. The flight is intended to qualify Apollo for a manned flight to the moon.

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:43 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
With a half Earth in the background, the lunar module ascent stage with moon-walking astronauts, Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., approaches for a rendezvous with the Apollo 11 command module manned by Michael Collins.

Project Mercury Launch Vehicles

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:43 +0100

Title:
Project Mercury Launch Vehicles
Chrome unused

Description:
Project Mercury Launch Vehicles showing from left, Little Joe Redstone and Atlas Missile. This card sample early Missiles 1959 - 72 Unusual set with good collector Potential Some cars quiet scarce 20 different Thompson's community service 1220 Chickasaw Paris, Tenn.

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:43 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
Erected in honor of the Seven Original Astronauts. It consists of the Symbol for the Planet Mercury. The number seven is mounted on he cross of valor. A time capsule to be opened in 2464, with information about the Mercury Flights, was buried beneath the monument in November 1964.

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:42 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
Scale model of Apollo / Saturn 5 rocket at Visitors Information Center, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Shows construction of all three stages and location of Spacecraft. Other exhibits show spacecraft and rockets used in Space Program.

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:42 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
Actual Gemini 9 spacecraft flown by Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan. On display at Visitors Information Center, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Gemini 9, spent more than 72 hours in Earth orbit, including a 125 minute Spacewalk by Cernan.

Cape Kennedy Gateway To The Moon

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:42 +0100

Title:
Cape Kennedy Gateway To The Moon
Florida (FL), Chrome unused

Description:
Top View: This version of Saturn will place a three-man Apollo Spacecraft in earth orbit; a later, more powerful rocket will carry the same spacecraft to the moon's Surface. Bottom View: Technical Laboratory.

The Saturn V Rocket On Display Near Vehicle

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:42 +0100

Title:
The Saturn V Rocket On Display Near Vehicle
Florida (FL), Chrome unused

Description:
The Saturn V rocket on display near Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fl.

Kennedy Space Center

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:42 +0100

Title:
Kennedy Space Center
Florida (FL), Chrome unused

Description:
Launch Site of American Astronauts

Kennedy Space Center

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:41 +0100

Title:
Kennedy Space Center
Florida (FL), Chrome unused

Description:
Space Shuttle Columbia creeps up the ramp at Launch Pad 39A at the completion of the move from the Vehicle Assembly Building

John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:41 +0100

Title:
John F. Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Chrome unused

Description:
Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off into a cloudless sky from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, April 4, 1983. This was the sixth mission of the Space Shuttle, and the first flight of the Orbiter Challenger.

Kennedy Space Center

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:40 +0100

Title:
Kennedy Space Center
Florida (FL), Chrome unused

Description:
The Shuttle Orbiter Columbia is towed back to the Orbiter Processing Facility following its demating from the STS 9 shuttle stack

Kennedy Space Center

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:39 +0100

Title:
Kennedy Space Center
Florida (FL), Chrome unused

Description:
Atlantis sits on Pad 39A at dusk

Greetings From Kennedy Space Center

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:39 +0100

Title:
Greetings From Kennedy Space Center
Florida (FL), Chrome PM 1976 Aug-26

Description:
Launch site of American Astronauts. The Apollo / Saturn V facilities vehicle moves out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space center, on its way to launch complex 39, Pad-A.

Kennedy Space Center

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:39 +0100

Title:
Kennedy Space Center
Florida (FL), Chrome unused

Description:
Space Shuttle on Pad 39A prior to moving the rotating service structure back into place around the orbiter

Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:39 +0100

Title:
Kennedy Space Center N. A. S. A
Florida (FL), Chrome unused

Description:
The Saturn V rocket on display near Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Kennedy Space Center

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:16:39 +0100

Title:
Kennedy Space Center
Florida (FL), Chrome unused

Description:
Space Station, a permanently manned orbiting facility which will enable the U. S. and its partners in Canada, Europe and Japan to use the space environment to the fullest for the benefit of mankind.

Space Shuttle At Cape Kennedy, Space Center