Three Postcards From The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama

U.S. Space and Rocket Center 

Huntsville, Alabama

All three postcards are unused and from 2012. 

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This is Saturn V Replica at the Museum with Fireworks.

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The Space Shot, Saturn V Replica and Saturn 1B at the Space Center

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The SR-71 Blackbird Aircraft

Robert H. Goddard and a Goddard Rocket

Robert H. Goddard (center), patron of aviation Harry Guggenheim (left), and Charles Lindbergh, stand before a Goddard rocket in New Mexico, 9/23/35. 

NASA photo

This postcard is unused.

Apollo 17 Liftoff in 1972

John F. Kennedy Space Center
N.A.S.A

The Apollo 17 space vehicle lifted off from Launch Complex 39 A, at 12:33 EST Dec. 7th 1972.

Color photo by NASA

Saturn V Booster in Mississippi

Mississippi Test Facility
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hancock County

The S-II-2, second flight stage of the second stage booster rocket of the Saturn V space vehicle is how being lifted into the S-II test stand for checkout and static test firing.  The S-II test stand is 200 feet tall with a foundation that extends 40 feet below ground and rests on steel pilings each over 90 feet long.  MTF is a component of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama

Official NASA-MTF Photograph

Vanguard and the 'Baby Moon', Patrick Air Force Base

Baby Moon

Air Force Missile Test Center
Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
U.S. Navy Vanguard - Satellite Vehicle

The Vanguard blasts off from its launching stand at Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying in its nose a small earth satellite.  This "baby moon" is now circling the earth as part of United States participation in the International Geo-physical Year.  The Vanguard, undertaken by the Naval Research Laboratory, is one of the rockets now being tested at the Air Force Missile Test Center.

NASA Apollo Saturn-V

John F. Kennedy Space Center
N.A.S.A.

Aerial view, NASA APOLLO Saturn-V 500 F. facility vehicle, arrives at launch complex 39 A.

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SA-500F was a dummy Saturn V used to test facilities at Launch Complex 39 during 1966.

Lift-Off of The Thor IRBM Discover II Rocket

This picture shows the launching of the Thor IRBM Discoverer II rocket.  The purpose of the Discoverer program is to provide a scientific data-gathering earth satellite system having the capability of ejecting a recoverable research capsule from the orbiting satellite.  Discoverer VI was launched on August 8, 1959.

Photo by U.S.A.F.

Delta No. 11, Telstar 1 and Satellite

John F. Kennedy Space Center
N.A.S.A.
Delta No 11, launched from Cape Kennedy by N.A.S.A., for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, to orbit TELSTAR 1, AT&T's experimental communication satellite.

Photo USAFMTC Photo Lab.

This postcard is unused.

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Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962

Juno II Rocket, Prepared to Launch

The U.S. Army's JUNO II rocket is prepared to launch by missilemen at the Air Force Missile Test Center's launching site, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
1960

Project Mercury Launch Vehicles

Project Mercury Launch Vehicles
showing from left,
Little Joe, Redstone and Atlas Missile

Someone 'stamped' on the back:

This card sample Early Missiles 1959 - 72
Unusual set with good collector potential.
Some cards quite scarce
20 different
Thompson's Community Service
1220 Chickasaw
Paris, Tennessee 38242

NASA Echo Satellite

The NASA Echo satellite - which unfolded from its canister into a 100-foot aluminized balloon to reflect radio signals - mated to the final stage of a Thor-Delta rocket at Cape Canaveral, launch site of the Air Force Missile Test Center (U.S. Air Force Photo).

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Echo 1 was launched on August 12, 1960.

Echo 2 (not on the postcard) was launched on a Thor-Agena rocket in 1964. 

Jupiter Rocket Being Fired

Jupiter Being Fired
Color by U.S.Army - Redstone Arsenal

Apollo 7 atop a Saturn IB Rocket

John F. Kennedy Space Center
N.A.S.A.
The Apollo 7 spacecraft, atop a Saturn IB rocket, lifts off from Complex 34.  The spacecraft achieved orbit to begin an 11-day mission.   The flight is intended to qualify Apollo for a manned flight to the moon.

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The launch was on October 11, 1968.

Saturn Rocket Lifts Off at Cape Canaveral, Florida

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 1.5 million pound thrust Saturn rocket roars off its launching pad at Cape Canaveral.  Saturn is the first booster built especially for manned space flight.

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I believe this might be SA-1 which launched on October 27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Saturn V Rocket at Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center Florida
N.A.S.A.
The Saturn V rocket on display near Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center
1990

Gemini - Titan and the First Man on the Moon Mission . . .

John F. Kennedy Space Center N.A.S.A.
NASA's Gemini-Titan 4 that launched McDivitt and White from Cape Kennedy, Florida

This postcard is one of my favorites because of what is written on it....
The sender writes: "We saw the rocket blast-off on Cape Kennedy today"

It is postmarked  from Cocoa Beach, Florida on 7-16-1969 - the day Apollo 11 left for the first moon landing!

Martin's Titan

Aerial View Cape Kennedy, Florida
Showing Martin's Titan as it blasts off on a 6,000 mile trip down the Atlantic Missile Range.

This is postmarked on March 6, 1969.

The Ariane 5 Rocket in French Guiana

Guyane L'Espace
Decollage du lanceur Ariane 5 GS, vol 193, le 18 décembre 2009 depuis le Centre spatial guyanais.  Le lanceur a place en orbite la satellite militaire Helios 2B.

Loose Translation:
Guiana Space
Liftoff of the Ariane 5 GS launcher, vol 193, 18 December 2009 from the Guiana Space Center. The launcher placed in orbit military satellite Helios 2B.

CNES / ESA / Arianespace / Photo Service Optique Video CSG, 2009

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The Guiana Space Centre or, more commonly, Centre spatial guyanais (CSG) is a French and European spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. 

The Vanguard Rocket

Air Force Missile Test Center
Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
Navy VANGUARD

The VANGUARD is a vehicle used to launch U.S. satellites.  This is a joint program of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Martin Company of Baltimore, makers of the vehicle.

Genuine Natural Color Made By Dexter Press.

Saturn IB, Apollo 7

John F. Kennedy Space Center
N.A.S.A.
Saturn IB space vehicle carrying Apollo 7 Astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham lifts off from Launch Complex 34.  Camera captures rocket clearing its 240-foot-high umbilical tower.