From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Webb traveled to Nevada to inspect progress made in the development of a nuclear rocket engine at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station.
The Alan Bible Photograph Collection contains color photographic prints of the Hoover Dam; an aerial of the Colorado River; an Atomic Energy Commission drill rig in Central Nevada; and views of a Nuclear Rocket Development Station (NRDS) facility at the Nevada Test Site between approximately 1970 to 1974. These photographs are captioned and were originally framed and hung in Alan Bible's United States Senate office.
The collection includes materials from the Nevada Test Site (1955-1967) including newsletters published by the Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., Inc. and photographs of Southern Nevada flora, fauna, and archaeology. It also includes photographs of test explosions at the Nevada Test Site, as well as photographs documenting a visit from North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials and a visit from John F. Kennedy to the Nevada Test Site. The collection also contains an oversized poster of an atomic explosion and one of a nuclear rocket development station.
The Ronald Sharp Collection on MAD Building for Project Rover (approximately 1958-1963) contains a brochure and photographs of the Maintenance, Assembly, and Disassembly (MAD) Building for Project Rover located at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at the Nevada Test Site. The MAD building was one of the major centers for testing activities for Project Rover which was a United States project to develop a nuclear-thermal rocket. The materials also include photographs of an engine transporting a Kiwi nuclear rocket reactor from the MAD building to the test site and a mushroom nuclear cloud. Also included are photographs of Ronald Sharp and New Mexico artist Jose Sanchez, presumably at the MAD Building.
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). The Nuclear Furnace (NF-1) fuel test reactor on its test cart. The reactor is covered by a special shield and is plugged into the face of the test facility at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station, Jackass Flats, Nev.
Jack Pershing Livingston was born in 1918 in Denver, Colorado. He began working at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory beginning in 1951 and was promoted to the Associate Group Leader in the Test Division. In 1962 he was transferred to Mercury, Nevada to the Nuclear Rocket Development Station. He died at the age of 46 on January 4, 1965.
The collection is comprise of correspondence, magazines, photographs, and brochures relating to the Nevada Test Site outside of Las Vegas, Nevada and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico dating from 1942 to 2002. The collection was compiled by Jack Livingston and Jacquelynn Smith during their time working at various defense industry locations.