Centaur A NASA Workhorse Size:14" x 14" 1902 - July 7

1902 - July 7

Photographed by Alfred Palmer in May of 1942 showing marines marching line dressed in ties

Printed by the Neely Printing Company

glass negatives by the Detroit Photographic Co

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Centaur A NASA Workhorse Size:14" x 14" 1902 - July 7Workers at the Propulsion Systems Laboratory at Lewis Research Center, now John H. Glenn Research Center, develop the Centaur upper stage rocket. The Centaur was an ambitious rocket using liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. It was the first rocket to ever use hydrogen as a propulsion fuel and underwent a difficult development period. It later became a highly successful upper stage used for hundreds of NASA, commercial and military payloads. On Nov. 27,