Gemini IV (Image S65-30427)
June 1965
courtesy of NASA-JSC

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Space Shuttle (STS-120)
July 2007
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Upstate New York has a heritage  that continues today of creative technology enterprises, whose guidance systems, computers, flight simulators, cameras, and high-speed film helped the US win the race to the moon.
 

Left Photo: Ed White uses Anscochrome 200 on his Gemini IV EVA, a mission supported by flight simulators from Link Aviation Devices, avionics from General Electric-Westover, Johnson City, NY, and IBM-Owego, whose guidance computer was the first use of silicon transistors in space, as well as the first use of a digital computer in space to change a spacecraft's orbit.

Right Photo: Shuttle Mission Specialist Doug Wheelock, graduate of Windsor High School, Broome County, NY, installing solar panels for the International Space Station. Space Shuttle door and arms are manipulated with aluminum components from Phillips Foundry and flexible shafts from Elliot Manufacturing, both Binghamton, NY companies.

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