NASA’s Last Stand Gallery

Excerpt from NASA’s Last Stand:

Schafer was echoing NASA’s Burro Flats Historic District plan’s obvious falsehoods such as the “district retains all aspects of historic integrity” and that the “places still look very much as they did before the Europeans arrived; they have not been torn out or built over. They are a part of the local Native American identity that has endured into the twenty-first century.”

That ridiculous lie reflects the insidious influence of the Trump Administration where telling the most outrageous falsehood is somehow acceptable. NASA photographs imparted to this reporter when he joined NASA Section 106 Consultants in 2013, show just how impacted SSFL as seen in EnviroReporter.com‘s NASA’s Last Stand Gallery. Rocket test stands dominate SSFL as does a giant mountain of high-tech garbage that NASA dumped over the decades in its area of the lab.

NASA’s Last Stand Gallery August 2020

NASA’s 2009 Historic Resources Survey includes these photographs sequenced and identified as such. Thanks especially to NASA Manager Merrilee Fellows for these photographs.

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Delta Aerial - Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) - 1958

Component Test Laboratory (CTL) II - Turbopump Test Facility, SSFL - CTL-II, Component Test Laboratory - Component Hot Fire

Coca Test Area Reconfigured for Saturn III Battleship Testing, SSFL - Coca - Test Stands - 1964 - Aerial

F-1 Engine Hot Fire Test - 1961, EFL - F-1 Engine - Saturn V First Stage Engine - Hot Fire

Coca Area - SSME Preps for Component Test - 1974, SSFL - Coca Area - Test Stand - 1974

Delta Test Stand - Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) - 1957

German A-4 Engine on Display at EAFB - 1952, EAFB - Display Area - A-4 Rocket Engine - German V-2 Missile - 1952

NAA LAX Parking Lot Test Area Aerial View - 1947

NATIV Launch - 1948, Alamo Gordo Army Base, New Mexico - NATIV Launch Complex - North American Test Instrumentation Vehicle

Vertical Test Stand (VTS) -I - 1954, SSFL - Santa Susana Field Laboratory - Bowl Area - VTS-I Test Stand - 1954

Components Test Laboratory (CTL) -I, SSFL - Santa Susana Field Laboratory - CTL-I Area - CTL-I

Bowl Test Area - 1950, SSFL - Santa Susana Field Laboratory - Bowl Area - Test Area - 1950

V-2 Motor Hot Fire Sequence - Germany - 1945 (2 of 10)

MX-770 Navaho Phase 2 Engine with Propellant Tanks - 1949, MX-770 Navaho Phase 2 Engine - Navaho - 1949

SSFL Executive Personnel Photo

Bowl Aerial - Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) - 1958

Canyon Test Stand ConstructionSanta Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) - 1953

ALFA Aerial - Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) - 1958

Alfa Area Test Stands, SSFL - Alfa Test Area - Test Stands - 1959

Area II View, SSFL - Area II - Buildings

Aerial of Bravo Test Area - 1960 - Santa Susana - test stands - Alfa-Bravo ponds

Coca Test Area - Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) - 1958

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