Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160877391
Category : Centaur rocket
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket 1958-2002
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160877391
Category : Centaur rocket
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Taming Liquid Hydrogen
Author: Virginia Parker DawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centaur rocket
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
NASA 50th Anniversary Proceedings: NASA's First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives
Author: Steven J. DickPublisher: U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
On 29 July 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which became operational on 1 October of that year. Over the next 50 years, NASA achieved a set of spectacular feats, ranging from advancing the well-established field of aeronautics to pioneering the new fields of Earth and space science and human spaceflight. In the midst of the geopolitical context of the Cold War, 12 Americans walked on the Moon, arriving in peace “for all mankind.” Humans saw their home planet from a new perspective, with unforgettable Apollo images of Earthrise and the “Blue Marble,” as well as the “pale blue dot” from the edge of the solar system. A flotilla of spacecraft has studied Earth, while other spacecraft have probed the depths of the solar system and the universe beyond. In the 1980s, the evolution of aeronautics gave us the first winged human spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station stands as a symbol of human cooperation in space as well as a possible way station to the stars. With the Apollo fire and two Space Shuttle accidents, NASA has also seen the depths of tragedy. In this volume, a wide array of scholars turn a critical eye toward NASA’s first 50 years, probing an institution widely seen as the premier agency for exploration in the world, carrying on a long tradition of exploration by the United States and the human species in general. Fifty years after its founding, NASA finds itself at a crossroads that historical perspectives can only help to illuminate.
NASA Historical Data Book: NASA launch systems, space transportation, human spaceflight, and space science, 1989-1998
Author: The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926-1991
Author: J. D. HunleyPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603449876
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In this definitive study, J. D. Hunley traces the program’s development from Goddard’s early rockets (and the German V-2 missile) through the Titan IVA and the Space Shuttle, with a focus on space-launch vehicles. Since these rockets often evolved from early missiles, he pays considerable attention to missile technology, not as an end in itself, but as a contributor to launch-vehicle technology. Focusing especially on the engineering culture of the program, Hunley communicates this very human side of technological development by means of anecdotes, character sketches, and case studies of problems faced by rocket engineers. He shows how such a highly adaptive approach enabled the evolution of a hugely complicated technology that was impressive—but decidedly not rocket science. Unique in its single-volume coverage of the evolution of launch-vehicle technology from 1926 to 1991, this meticulously researched work will inform scholars and engineers interested in the history of technology and innovation, as well as those specializing in the history of space flight.
NASA Historical Data Book
Author: The Wind and Beyond: The ascent of the airplane
Author: James R. HansenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 2, Flight Environment ..., NASA/SP-2010-570-Vol 2, 2010, *
Author: NASA's First A
Author: Robert G. FergusonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Remembering the space age: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160867118
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
From the Publisher: Proceedings of October 2007 conference, sponsored by the NASA History Division and the National Air and Space Museum, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch in October 1957 and the dawn of the space age.