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Phase I:
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Phase II:
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Wind Tunnels

Engine Development

Engine Test Stands

Rocket Testing

Rockets

Launch Pads

Apollo Training

Apollo Hardware Testing

Unmanned Spacecraft Testing

Tracking Stations

Mission Control Centers

Other Support

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Wind Tunnels


Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel

Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel
Exterior view of ventilating tower, 1984
(Photo by NASA, NASA/Langley Research Center Facilities Office)

Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel
Sketch of Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel
(Source: Characteristics of Nine Research Wind Tunnels of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory,
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1957)


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