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Project Fire, announced in 1962, was a NASA high-speed reentry heat research program to obtain data on materials, heating rates, and radio signal attenuation on spacecraft reentering the atmosphere at speeds of about 24,500 miles per hour. Information from this program would support manned and unmanned reentry from lunar missions. NASA awarded a five million dollar contract to Republic Aviation Corporation for the construction of two experimental reentry spacecraft.

 Identifier

NASM.2006.0027

Creator

Republic Aviation Corporation

Date

bulk 1960s

Provenance

Benjamin and Lillian Sokol, Gift, 2006

Extent

0.02 Cubic feet ((2 boxes))

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of thirty-one black and white three by four glass lantern slides and sixty film slides of Republic's work with Project Fire.

Rights

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Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

Citation

Project Fire Slides and Lantern Slides, Accession number 2006-0027, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Topics

Astronautics

Space vehicles

Project Fire

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Glass slides

Slides (photographs)