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Category : Artificial satellites
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Proceedings of the Second National Conference Held in Seattle, Washington, May 8-10, 1962
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Project Mercury
Author: James M. GrimwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
NASA Special Publications Currently Available ...
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
NASA Special Publications
Author: We Could Not Fail
Author: Richard PaulPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292772491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal employment opportunity laws to open workplaces at NASA and NASA contractors to African Americans while creating thousands of research and technology jobs in the Deep South to ameliorate poverty. We Could Not Fail tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of how shooting for the stars helped to overcome segregation on earth. Richard Paul and Steven Moss profile ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrate the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. They recount how these technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate surmounted barriers to move, in some cases literally, from the cotton fields to the launching pad. The authors vividly describe what it was like to be the sole African American in a NASA work group and how these brave and determined men also helped to transform Southern society by integrating colleges, patenting new inventions, holding elective office, and reviving and governing defunct towns. Adding new names to the roster of civil rights heroes and a new chapter to the story of space exploration, We Could Not Fail demonstrates how African Americans broke the color barrier by competing successfully at the highest level of American intellectual and technological achievement.
NASA EP.
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Biology
Author: Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: Heavy Metal
Author: Philippe D. TortellPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 180064390X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Heavy Metal: Earth’s Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies brings together world-leading experts from across the globe to reimagine the future of mineral exploration and mining in a post-fossil fuel world. Minerals and metals – for batteries, circuit boards, wiring and other components – are essential to a digital, carbon-neutral economy. But how can we grapple with the environmental, social and geopolitical challenges caused by the extraction and use of these critical resources? Concise, accessible, and engaging, the essays in this timely collection intertwine a broad spectrum of disciplines to help us understand and reimagine our relationship with minerals. Exploring a wide range of themes, from the colonial history of mining and Indigenous resistance, to new frontiers in exploration geology, waste management and recycling, this book draws on experts from fields as diverse as geology, mining engineering, law, economics and public policy. The book also explores mineral resources through an artistic lens, with a collection of stunning images from the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, and excerpts of a new musical work, the Heavy Metal Suite. This thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book guides us towards a more responsible, ethical and sustainable use of metals and minerals. It is essential reading for anyone interested in how we supply the resources needed for a carbon-neutral economic future.
Reports and Documents
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
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