The Museum will be closed January 12th - January 16th in preparation for our new Special Exhibition Ripley's Believe It or Not!. Museum reopens Saturday January 17th. New Exhibit opens January 31st!
These images are from NASA and focus on projects that were launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Caneveral. They originally appeared on this site: https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos and were gathered by a researcher who gave them to the San Diego Air and Space Museum. They have embedded metadata which gives a detailed description of the contents of the image.
Kenneth Thoman was a Navy veteran of World War II, having served in the South Pacific as a crew member of Navy PB4Y-1 (B-24).
Kenneth Smith has had a distinguished 43-year career in both the aerospace/electronics industry and in public service, working with Convair and serving as a naval aviator during WWII.
Kenneth Wise served as a Bombardment Pilot with the 505th Bomb Group in the Mariana and Philippine Islands. He was also a Tower Operator at LAOAG Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands for three months. In July 1945, as the war was ending, Wise was flying B-29s over Japan. On August 8, he flew with ninety-one other B-29 bombers and made his last drop on Fukuyama, located in the Hiroshima prefecture. The collection contains personal and professional aviation-related material and documents from 1943-45.
Laura Little was a San Diego-based pilot and a realtor at La Jolla's Century 21 Village Properties. She is originally from Northport, Maine. She earned her pilots license at age 57 and was a member of the San Diego Chapter of the 99s, serving as treasurer in 1972 and 1973.
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