Author: Western Australia. Education DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Progress Report on Targets in the 1996-1998 Strategic Plan, 1 April 1996-31 July 1996
Author: Western Australia. Education DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Life in Space
Author: Maura Phillips MackowskiPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683403126
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A little-known yet critical part of NASA history Life in Space explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASA’s research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in histories of the space agency. Maura Mackowski details NASA’s work in this field from spectacular promises made during the Reagan era to the major new directions set by George W. Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration in the early twenty-first century. At the first flight of NASA’s space shuttle in 1981, hopes ran high for the shuttle program to achieve its potential of regularly transporting humans, cargo, and scientific experiments between Earth and the International Space Station. Mackowski describes different programs, projects, and policies initiated across NASA centers and headquarters in the following decades to advance research into human safety and habitation, plant and animal biology, and commercial biomaterials. Mackowski illuminates these ventures in fascinating detail by drawing on rare archival sources, oral histories, interviews, and site visits. While highlighting significant achievements and innovations such as space radiation research and the Neurolab Spacelab Mission, Mackowski reveals frustrations—lost opportunities, stagnation, and dead ends—stemming from frequent changes in presidential administrations and policies. For today’s dreams of lunar outposts or long-term spaceflight to become reality, Mackowski argues, a robust program in space life sciences is essential, and the history in this book offers lessons to help prevent leaving more expectations unfulfilled.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Professional Journal of the United States Army
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Proposed Conrail Acquisition (Finance Docket No. 33388) by CSX Corporation and CSX Transportation Inc., and Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS), Control and Operating Leases and Agreements, To Serve Portion of Eastern United States D(6v in 9pts),Dsum,F(7v),Fsum;
Author: Titan II
Author: David K. StumpfPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610754298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Titan II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) program was developed by the United States military to bolster the size, strength, and speed of the nation’s strategic weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 1960s. Each missile carried a single warhead—the largest in U.S. inventory—used liquid fuel propellants, and was stored and launched from hardened underground silos. The missiles were deployed at basing facilities in Arkansas, Arizona, and Kansas and remained in active service for over twenty years. Since military deactivation in the early 1980s, the Titan II has served as a reliable satellite launch vehicle. This is the richly detailed story of the Titan II missile and the men and women who developed and operated the system. David K. Stumpf uses a wide range of sources, drawing upon interviews with and memoirs by engineers and airmen as well as recently declassified government documents and other public materials. Over 170 drawings and photographs, most of which have never been published, enhance the narrative. The three major accidents of the program are described in detail for the first time using authoritative sources. Titan II will be welcomed by librarians for its prodigious reference detail, by technology history professionals and laymen, and by the many civilian and Air Force personnel who were involved in the program—a deterrent weapons system that proved to be successful in defending America from nuclear attack.
Military Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Implementing the Strategic Plan
Author: Comprehensive options assessment for electricity sector in Nepal : dialogue on dams and development in Nepal
Author: Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9789993386087
Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description