Stories from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
The Marshall Retiree Association is collecting stories from the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Contact us to add your story to this online archive.
Jan Zee
by Linda M. Zielinski This will not be a technical writing about the NASA/MSFC, but rather a personal perspective of the time I was employed
History of Neutral Buoyancy Simulation
by Jim Splawn Jim Splawn – – NASA Neutral Buoyancy Simulation I was born in Kentucky, raised in Tennessee, educated in Georgia at Georgia Tech, graduated in
NASA/MSFC Resident Management Office, Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), Rocketdyne
by Jim Splawn Introduction After Skylab completed its very successful missions, it was my good fortune to transition to the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME)
Final Performance Testing of a Large Guided Missile
submitted by Willie Weaver This article was published in Electrical Manufacturing magazine in December 1958. It was written by Robert L. Smith of the Army
Hubble Space Telescope
by Spike Field Astronomers dreamed of viewing the cosmos long before man-made satellites were able to go into space. That dream became viable after the
Another Day at the Office
by Paula Naumcheff My father, Michael Naumcheff 🥰 on left, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL , Circa 1960s My father was one
Cows Really Can Jump Over the Moon
By Frank E. Swalley From Dairy Farm Boy to Rocket Scientist Fascinating People I Met Along the Way A Murderer, Football Players, Apollo Astronauts and
West Was at Pearl Harbor, Many Other Pacific Battles
Star Salute from Marshall Star, December 4, 1968 Several thousand Americans received their “baptism of fire” in the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor 27
Spaceflight Adventures
(Never Left the Ground) by Spike Field (Please click the link below.) https://www.marshallretirees.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Spike-Field.pdf