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Author : Glenn E. Bugos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : MSU:31293017312715
Author : Glenn E. Bugos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160591864
Author : National Aeronautics Administration,Glenn Bugos
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1493625128
As the NASA Ames Research Center approached its 70th anniversary in December 2009, there was interest in updating the 60th anniversary history Atmosphere of Freedom: Sixty Years at the NASA Ames Research Center (NASA SP-4314). Much had happened in the decade from 1999 to 2009.Ames stayed focused on its historical mission of basic research and forward-thinking technologies-in information technology, aeronautics, reentry systems, space life sciences, and planetary science. Still, the Center confronted new challenges and new programs emerged. Notable was the growth of astrobiology, the birth and death of nanotechnology, the establishment of the NASA Research Park, the LCROSS mission to the Moon and the Kepler mission to hunt for Earth-sized planets. Perhaps the most important challenge was NASA''s Constellation program, a full-bore effort to create a transportation system for human spaceflight to replace the Space Shuttle and return America to the Moon. Furthermore, events of the most recent decade shed new light on parts of NASA Ames'' legacy. The renewed emphasis on small spacecraft, for example, prompted renewed interest in Ames'' historical strengths in spacecraft engineering dating back to the1960s. The renewed emphasis on NASA research to resolve the common concerns of commercial space, likewise, prompted renewed interest in Ames work to support the information technology industry. This update also allowed for a reconfiguration of the text. The story here starts in1958 when the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), of which Ames was apart, was incorporated into the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The first twenty years of Ames'' history-back to 1939, its NACA years-remains relevant. The NACA culture is firmly fixed with in Ames and often colored its work in the NASA years, especially in its continuing efforts in aeronautics and in how it provides research support to firms and other Centers pursuing larger projects. For those interested in Ames during the NACA years, that story is told well in Edwin P. Hartman, Adventures in Research: A History of the Ames Research Center, 1940-1965 (NASASP-4302, 1970). The 60th anniversary edition of Atmosphere of Freedom was organized largely chronologically, with topical areas broken into larges watches of time. This 70th anniversary edition begins with a history of the Center from the perspective of the Center directors- there have been ten since 1958.This ties the history of Ames into its larger context of space policy and politics, and addresses the impact of leadership on the history of the Center. Then the chapters are organized by the subjects that persisted throughout Ames'' history: spacecraft projects, human exploration, planetary sciences, space life sciences, information technology, and aeronautical research. Each of these stories has a history dating back to at least 1958, so issues of overlap in the narrative remain-in that what Ames has done best is explore the fruitful interchanges of disciplines and capabilities. Computational fluid dynamics, for example, developed from iterative advances in aerodynamics, supercomputing and software development, and so will be addressed in various chapters. Astrobiology, likewise, grew along the shifting border between the space life sciences and planetary science. However, the larger themes relevant on its 60th anniversary remain relevant on the 70th anniversary of NASA Ames: the complex and constant intermingling and convergence of people, tools and ideas. Ames people value the perpetual reinvention of their careers and the cross-fertilization of ideas. Ames stands as an extraordinary repository of high-tech equipment, research laboratories, and facilities. That physical infrastructure supports what Ames truly is-a growing and evolving community of researchers and support staff who have given birth to new technologies, and thus enabled the human conquest of the atmosphere and the exploration of space.
Author : Glenn E. Bugos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015090307524
Author : James R. Hansen,NASA History Office
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : NASA:31769000641392
Volume 1 relates the story of the invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers and the creation of the original aeronautical research establishment in the United States.
Author : James R. Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aerodynamics
ISBN : PURD:32754081440855
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aerodynamics
ISBN : MINN:30000007889508
Author : Robert G. Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822041095381
Author : Steven J. Dick,National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000125978191
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.
Author : Christian Gelzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Military trucks
ISBN : UCSD:31822039629662
Author : Rebecca Wright,Sandra Johnson,Steven J. Dick
Publisher : NASA History Division
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSD:31822038096277
These interviews capture refections from top decision-makers as the space agency was completing its first 50 years. Based on oral histories, the book offers insights from those responsible for moving NASA through a deep transition - from the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the centerpiece of human spaceflight for three decades, to the goals of the new policy known as the Vision for Space Exploration.
Author : Curtis Peebles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aerospace engineers
ISBN : UOM:39015089352242
Author : Lane E. Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Government publications
ISBN : IND:30000116800768
Author : Peter J. Westwick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289062
"Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428994584
