Author: Richard Hallion Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters ISBN: Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 1064
Book Description
Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.
Author: Buzz Aldrin Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504026446 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 300
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Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. “We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator,” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. In honest and compelling prose, Aldrin reveals a side of instant fame for which West Point and NASA could never have prepared him. One day a fighter pilot and engineer, the next a cultural hero burdened with the adoration of thousands, Aldrin gives a poignant account of the affair that threatened his marriage, as well as his descent into alcoholism and depression that resulted from trying to be too many things to too many people. He didn’t realize that when he landed on his home planet his odyssey had just begun. As Aldrin puts it, “I traveled to the moon, but the most significant voyage of my life began when I returned from where no man had been before.” Return to Earth is a powerful and moving memoir that exposes the stresses suffered by those in the Apollo program and the price Buzz Aldrin paid when he became an American icon.
Author: William Tyrrell Thomson Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486140520 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 354
Book Description
Comprehensive, classic introduction to space-flight engineering for advanced undergraduate and graduate students provides basic tools for quantitative analysis of the motions of satellites and other vehicles in space.
Author: Biliyar N. Bhat Publisher: ISBN: 9781624104886 Category : Aeronautics Languages : en Pages : 0
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"The present volume is focused on documenting the novel processing, fabrication, characterization, and testing approaches that are unique to aerospace materials/structures/systems"--Preface.
Author: A. Scott Howe Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics) ISBN: 9781563479823 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This collaborative book compiles 30 chapters on the theory and practice of designing and building inhabited environments in outer space. It is rich in graphics including diagrams, design drawings, digital renderings, and photographs of models and operational designs.
Author: Roger E. Bilstein Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801871580 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics—forerunner of today's NASA—emerged in 1915, when airplanes were curiosities made of wood and canvas and held together with yards of baling wire. At the time an unusual example of government intrusion (and foresight, given the importance of aviation to national military concerns), the committee oversaw the development of wind tunnels, metal fabrication, propeller design, and powerful new high-speed aircraft during the 1920s and '30s. In this richly illustrated account, acclaimed historian of aviation Roger E. Bilstein combines the story of NACA and NASA to provide a fresh look at the agencies, the problems they faced, and the hard work as well as inventive genius of the men and women who found the solutions. NACA research during World War II led to critical advances in U.S. fighter and bomber design and, Bilstein explains, contributed to engineering standards for helicopters. After 1945 the agency's test pilots experimented with jet-powered aircraft, testing both human and technical limits in trying to break the so-called "sound barrier." In October 1958, when the launch of the Soviet Sputnik signaled the beginning of the space race, NACA formed the nucleus of the new National Aeronautics and Space Agency. The new agency's efforts to meet President Kennedy's challenge—safely landing a man on the Moon and returning him to Earth before the end of the 1960s—is one of the great adventure stories of all time. Bilstein goes on to describe NASA's recent planetary and extraplanetary exploration, as well as its less well-known research into the future of aeronautical design.
Author: T. Hikmet Karakoc Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030141950 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 158
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This book provides readers with a basic understanding of the concepts and methodologies of sustainable aviation.The book is divided into three sections : basic principles the airport side, and the aircraft side. In-depth chapters discuss the key elements of sustainable aviation and provide complete coverage of essential topics including airport, energy, and noise management along with novel technologies, standards and a review of the current literature on green airports, sustainable aircraft design, biodiversity management, and alternative fuels. Engineers, researchers and students will find the fundamental approach useful and will benefit from the many engineering examples and solutions provided.
Author: Manuel Soler Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781493727759 Category : Aerospace engineering Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This "is a textbook that provides an introductory, thorough overview of aeronautical engineering, and it is aimed at serving as reference for an undergraduate course on aerospace engineering. The book is divided into three parts, namely: Introduction (The Scope, Generalities), The Aircraft (Aerodynamics, matericals and Structures, Propulsion, Instruments and Systems, Flight Mechanics), and Air Transporation, Airports, and Air Navigation."--
Author: Richard Hallion
Author: Steven J. Dick
Author: Buzz Aldrin
Author: William Tyrrell Thomson
Author: Earl Arthur Thornton
Author: Biliyar N. Bhat
Author: A. Scott Howe
Author: Roger E. Bilstein
Author: T. Hikmet Karakoc
Author: Manuel Soler