How Boeing company advertised space exploration and defense programs in the early 1960s


November 17th, 2011   |   5 Comments   |   1950 – 1980

In the 1960s, Boeing’s aerospace division became a large part of its business, employing some 55,000 people by 1962. Boeing had space facilities at two NASA centers and at Cape Canaveral in Florida, site of many space launches. The division built the first stage of the Saturn launch vehicles that sent the Apollo spacecraft toward the Moon. It also built the lunar orbiter, which photographed the Moon’s surface in 1966 to help NASA find a safe place for Apollo astronauts to land.

Boeing: Space Glider, 1961

Boeing: Space Glider, 1961


Boeing: Minuteman, 1963

Boeing: Minuteman, 1963


Boeing: Saturn V, 1963

Boeing: Saturn V, 1963


Boeing: Lunar Orbiter, 1965

Boeing: Lunar Orbiter, 1965


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  1. Jan says:

    Hindsight really highlights our lack of knowledge at the time of doing something, doesn’t it. Back then, it would have looked very impressive but today looks more cartoonish than scientific….

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