Author: Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Two Astronomical Anniversaries
Author: Advancing Variable Star Astronomy
Author: Thomas R. WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496344
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Founded in 1911, the AAVSO boasts over 1200 members and observers and is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to variable star observation. This timely book marks the AAVSO's centennial year, presenting an authoritative and accurate history of this important association. Writing in an engaging and accessible style, the authors move chronologically through five eras of the AAVSO, discussing the evolution of its structure and purpose. Throughout the text, the main focus is on the thousands of individuals whose contributions have made the AAVSO's progress possible. Describing a century of interaction between amateur and professional astronomers, the authors celebrate the collaborative relationships that have existed over the years. As the definitive history of the first hundred years of the AAVSO, this text has broad appeal and will be of interest to amateur and professional astronomers, as well as historians and sociologists of science in general.
The Illustrated London almanack
Author: Apollo Expeditions to the Moon
Author: Edgar M. CortrightPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Here men from the planet earth. First set foot upon the moon - July 1969 A.D. We Came in peace for all mankind. From the plaque on the Eagle, Apollo 11, which landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.
The Record of the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the American Philosophical Society
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
NASA's First 50 Years Historical Perspectives
Author: Steven J. DickPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781470024758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Fifty years after the founding of NASA, from 28 to 29 October 2008, the NASA History Division convened a conference whose purpose was a scholarly analysis of NASA's first 50 years. Over two days at NASA Headquarters, historians and policy analysts discussed NASA's role in aeronautics, human spaceflight, exploration, space science, life science, and Earth science, as well as crosscutting themes ranging from space access to international relations in space and NASA's interaction with the public. The speakers were asked to keep in mind the following questions: What are the lessons learned from the first 50 years? What is NASA's role in American culture and in the history of exploration and discovery? What if there had never been a NASA? Based on the past, does NASA have a future? The results of those papers, elaborated and fully referenced, are found in this 50th anniversary volume. The reader will find here, instantiated in the complex institution that is NASA, echoes of perennial themes elaborated in an earlier volume, Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight. The conference culminated a year of celebrations, beginning with an October 2007 conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Space Age and including a lecture series, future forums, publications, a large presence at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and numerous activities at NASA's 10 Centers and venues around the country. It took place as the Apollo 40th anniversaries began, ironically still the most famous of NASA's achievements, even in the era of the Space Shuttle, International Space Station (ISS), and spacecraft like the Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) and the Hubble Space Telescope. And it took place as NASA found itself at a major crossroads, for the first time in three decades transitioning, under Administrator Michael Griffin, from the Space Shuttle to a new Ares launch vehicle and Orion crew vehicle capable of returning humans to the Moon and proceeding to Mars in a program known as Constellation. The Space Shuttle, NASA's launch system since 1981, was scheduled to wind down in 2010, freeing up funds for the new Ares launch vehicle. But the latter, even if it moved forward at all deliberate speed, would not be ready until 2015, leaving the unsettling possibility that for at least five years the United States would be forced to use the Russian Soyuz launch vehicle and spacecraft as the sole access to the ISS in which the United States was the major partner. The presidential elections a week after the conference presaged an imminent presidential transition, from the Republican administration of George W. Bush to (as it turned out) the Democratic presidency of Barack Obama, with all the uncertainties that such transitions imply for government programs. The uncertainties for NASA were even greater, as Michael Griffin departed with the outgoing administration and as the world found itself in an unprecedented global economic downturn, with the benefits of national space programs questioned more than ever before. There was no doubt that 50 years of the Space Age had altered humanity in numerous ways ranging from applications satellites to philosophical world views. Throughout its 50 years, NASA has been fortunate to have a strong sense of history and a robust, independent, and objective history program to document its achievements and analyze its activities. Among its flagship publications are Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, of which seven of eight projected volumes were completed at the time of the 50th anniversary. The reader can do no better than to turn to these volumes for an introduction to NASA history as seen through its primary documents. The list of NASA publications at the end of this volume is also a testimony to the tremendous amount of historical research that the NASA History Division has sponsored over the last 50 years, of which this is the latest volume.
Airborne Astronomy Symposium. A Symposium Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of Operations of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory
Author: Harley A. ThronsonPublisher:
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Category : Infrared astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
50th Anniversary of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I First Visit to the United States (1954-2004)
Author: Ras NathanielPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412037026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
50th Anniversary of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I: First Visit to the United States (1954 - 2004) is the only book that documents the historic first visit of an African Emperor to America. The book features a day-to-day, city-by-city chronology of the Emperor's visit that includes toasts and speeches given by the Emperor, as well as by President Eisenhower, UN Secretary General Dag Hammerksjold, various city Mayors, University Presidents, and military and church officials. The book includes more than one hundred photographs from the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as well as forty clippings from American newspapers. The book also contains an analysis of the Emperor's influence on the Brown vs. Board of Education decision that was passed just eight days before His Imperial Majesty's arrival in America, as well as the siginifigance of the Emperor's visit in American and African American History.
The Record of the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Royal Society of London, July 15-19, 1912
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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