Lifetime photo archive of Dr. Rudolf Hermann, spanning 1930s to 1990s. Includes original unpublished photos of Dr. Werner Von Braun and Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), a number of leading NASA Rocket Scientists including Drs. Riel, Rucken, Uristirnh, and Solna. Dr. Rudolf Hermann designed the superstructure of the WWII German V2 Rocket, and worked in tandem with Dr. Wehrner Von Braun on the first supersonic wind tunnel. He was an expert in supersonics during World War II. Member of the German rocket team, arrived in America under Project Paperclip on November 16, 1945 aboard the Argentina from La Havre. Worked in America at Wright Field in 1947. Dr. Hermann was present at the Cape Kennedy launch of Apollo 4, and his launch site spectator pass is present, along with photos he or his wife took on the day of the launch at John F. Kennedy Space Center. Additionally, there are photos from MFSC in April of 1967, the launch of Apollo X and Apollo XI. There are candid photos of Dr. Hermann with other NASA Rocket Scientists, and photos of he and his family at White Sands and Alamogordo -- rocket testing facilities in New Mexico. Additionally there are photos of his worldwide travels from Hong Kong to former Yugoslavia, Munich, Stockholm, Jamaica, and Mexico. There is a card to him from Wehrner von Braun, and a number of other programs, leaflets, and photos from his time with the American rocket and space programs. Most of the albums contain over 100 photos, some less, some photos have been removed and some of the pages have come loose. Most pages have annotated captions with names, and some even have diagrams drawn by the photographer. 10 albums span 1930s in Germany (captions are also in German) to the early 1990s (captions after 1950s are in English). Dr. Hermann's Academic and professional bio follows: "Rudolf Hermann earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Leipzig in 1929 and in 1935, he completed his Doktor habilitation (Dr. Habil.), the second doctorate required of all professorial candidates in Germany. Hermann's first engineering position was in the Department of Applied Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the University of Leipzig from 1929 to 1933. In 1934 he took over as head of the supersonic wind tunnel division at Aachen, a position he kept until 1937. In 1935 the Luftwaffe Technical Office introduced Wernher von Braun, the German rocket pioneer, to Rudolf Hermann who was working at Aachen as an assistant professor in addition to holding his position in the wind tunnel center. Von Braun's group had difficulty with the aerodynamic design of missile fins and turned to Hermann and his facilities at Aachen. Because of the significant role supersonic aerodynamics played in rocket design and the distance of the Aachen lab from Peenemünde, von Braun felt that the rocket group needed its own supersonic wind tunnel and its own supersonic specialist. Hermann joined the Peenemünde group in April 1937 as Director of the Supersonic Wind Tunnel Laboratory of the Army Rocket Experimental Station. The construction of two supersonic tunnels was Hermann's priority. The first tunnel was a 20-second, blow down tunnel with a 40-centimeter-wide test section and a maximum running speed of Mach 4.4. The second was an 18 x 18 centimeter continuous-flow tunnel with a maximum speed of Mach 3.1. The theoretical design of the De Laval nozzles used to accelerate the tunnel flows to supersonic velocities proved to be an extraordinarily complex task. Nevertheless, Hermann and his team perfected the designs for the testing facilities while providing novel methods for acquiring transonic and supersonic data, such as drop tests from an altitude of 7000 feet. Through these tests, Hermann and his staff gathered supersonic flight data on the aerodynamic design of the A-5, a redesigned A-3 rocket used to test guidance systems. The lessons learned from the study and testing of the A-5 were later incorporated into the design of the V-2 rocket. This experience gave Hermann the status of chief aerodynamicist for the V-2 rocket. With the end of World War II, the Allied Powers sent representatives to occupied Germany to recruit the top scientists in a variety of fields for the benefit of science and weapons development at home. In the U.S., this operation was known as Project Paperclip. By the end of 1952, 544 German specialists were living and working in the United States because of Project Paperclip. As these scientists and engineers arrived in America, they were usually housed and put to work at military installations. In 1945, Hermann was employed as a consultant with the Air Engineering Development Division at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The American public was not told of the presence of German scientists and engineers working in the United States until early December of 1946. Newsweek magazine described the work of Hermann and his colleagues as follows: "As the war ended, [Dr. Rudolf Hermann] was building a 7,000-mile-an-hour wind tunnel in the Bavarian Alps. With six associates brought from Germany, Hermann is working on supersonic wind tunnels for the United States Army." By 1948, some of the incoming Germans were being approved for work in American industry, and with that approval came essentially full freedom of choice. Scientists already in the United States were also being released for industry work. In fact, 516 of these German scientists and engineers and 1063 of their dependents obtained U. S. citizenship. Hermann was one of these. In 1950, Hermann left Wright Air Force Base, and joined the faculty in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at Minnesota. He brought knowledge and expertise in supersonic and hypersonic flight, subjects that were new to the curriculum. Hermann also taught mostly graduate level courses. The lack of graduate courses was a weak area in the Aeronautical Engineering department that was partially remedied by the addition of Hermann to the faculty. Hermann served the University of Minnesota both as a teaching professor and researcher, much as he had in Germany. He and his family lived in one of the 25 staff houses on the grounds of RAL, where he was Technical Director of the Hypersonic Facilities. At RAL, Hermann conducted research on supersonic and hypersonic flow characteristics, rocket sleds, and ramjets, with much support and funding from the U. S. Air Force and Navy. Hermann was one of the top researchers in supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics in the 1950s and 1960s. In June 1962, Rudolf Hermann left the University of Minnesota to accept the position of Director of the newly founded aeronautical research laboratory at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a neighboring facility to Marshall Space Flight Center where Hermann's former collaborator from Peenemünde, Wernher von Braun, was in charge. During his time at Minnesota, he contributed to the Aeronautical Engineering program his knowledge and understanding of supersonic and hypersonic theory and an approach to engineering science at a time when the Institute of Technology was ready for change. " Excellent