Partners In Freedom Contributions Of The Langley Research Center To U S Military Aircraft Of The 1990 S

Author : Joseph R. Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050176622

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Partners in Freedom by Joseph R. Chambers Pdf

Established in 1917 as the nation#s first civil aeronautics research laboratory under the National Advisory Commit-tee for Aeronautics (NACA), Langley was a small laboratory that solved the problems of flight for military and civil aviation. Throughout history, Langley has maintained a working partnership with the Department of Defense, U.S. industry, universities, and other government agencies to support the defense of the nation with research. During World War II, Langley directed virtually all of its workforce and facilities to research for military aircraft. Following the war, a balanced program of military and civil projects was undertaken. In some instances Langley research from one aircraft program helped solve a problem in another. At the conclusion of some programs, Langley obtained the research models for additional tests to learn more about previously unknown phenomena. The data also proved useful in later developmental programs. Many of the military aircraft in the U.S. inventory as of late 1999 were over 20 years old. Langley activities that contributed to the development of some of these aircraft began over 50 years prior. This publication documents the role, from early concept stages to problem solving for fleet aircraft, that Langley played in the military aircraft fleet of the United States for the 1990's.

Author : Joseph R. Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NASA:31769000641434

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Partners in Freedom: Contributions of the Langley Research Center to U.S. Military Aircraft of the 1990's by Joseph R. Chambers Pdf

Author : Joseph R. Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : IND:30000109243109

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Innovation in Flight by Joseph R. Chambers Pdf

Author : Joseph Chambers
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1478266422

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Partners in Freedom: Contributions of the Langley Research Center to U. S. Military Aircraft of The 1990's by Joseph Chambers Pdf

For over 80 years, Langley Research Center has exemplified the cutting edge of world class aeronautics research for civil and military aircraft. Established in 1917 as the nation's first civil aeronautics research laboratory under the charter of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Langley initially existed as a small, highly productive laboratory with emphasis on solving the problems of flight for the military and civil industry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UCSD:31822036341212

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NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics: Flight environment, operations, flight testing, and research by Anonim Pdf

Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050567168

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NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 2, Flight Environment ..., NASA/SP-2010-570-Vol 2, 2010, * by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sunny Tsiao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MSU:31293029715541

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"Read You Loud and Clear!" by Sunny Tsiao Pdf

From the Dust Jacket: Regardless of how sophisticated it may be, no spacecraft is of any value unless it can be tracked accurately to determine where it is and how it is performing. At the height of the space race, 6,000 men and women operated NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network at some two dozen locations across five continents. This network, known as the STDN, began its operation by tracking Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite that was launched into space by the former Soviet Union. Over the next 40 years, the network was destined to play a crucial role on every near-Earth space mission that NASA flew. Whether it was receiving the first television images from space, tracking Apollo astronauts to the Moon and back, or data acquiring for Earth science, the STDN was that intricate network behind the scenes making the missions possible. Some called it the "Invisible Network," a hallmark of which was that no NASA mission has ever been compromised due to a network failure. Read You Loud and Clear! is a historical account of the STDN, starting with its formation in the late 1950s to what it is today in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It traces the roots of the tracking network from its beginnings at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) space-based constellation of today. The story spans the early days of satellite tracking using the Minitrack Network, through the expansion of the Satellite Tracking And Data Acquisition Network (STADAN) and the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), and finally, to the Space and Ground Networks of today. Written from a nontechnical perspective, the author has translated a highly technical subject into historical accounts told within the framework of the U.S. space program. These accounts tell how international goodwill and foreign cooperation were crucial to the operation of the network and why the space agency chose to build the STDN the way it did. More than anything else, the story of NASA's STDN is about the "unsung heroes of the space program."

Author : Virginia Parker Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Centaur rocket
ISBN : UIUC:30112065968536

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Taming Liquid Hydrogen by Virginia Parker Dawson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0160877393

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Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket 1958-2002 by Anonim Pdf

NASA SP-2004-4230. NASA History Series. Chronicles the story of the Centaur, the world's first liquid-hydrogen rocket. Focuses on technical and political hurdles that Centaur faced over the three decades that it was managed by NASA Lewis Research Center. Explores NASA's effort to modify Centaur for launch from the Shuttle's cargo bay, a controversial project canceled in the wake of the Challenger accident.

Author : Howard E. McCurdy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : NASA:31769000641525

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Low-cost Innovation in Spaceflight by Howard E. McCurdy Pdf

Author : Robert C. Seamans
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Manned space flight
ISBN : 016086710X

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Project Apollo: The Tough Decisions by Robert C. Seamans Pdf

Author : Steven J. Dick,National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000125978191

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NASA 50th Anniversary Proceedings: NASA's First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives by Steven J. Dick,National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : MINN:30000009407382

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Exploring the Unknown by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Scientific and Technical Information Office
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050503379

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Human Spaceflight by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pdf

This volume contains over 100 key documents, many of which are published for the first time. Each is introduced by a headnote providing context, bibliographical details, and background information necessary to understand the document. These are organized into two chapters, each beginning with an essay that keys the documents to major events in the history

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D02853248A

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Exploring the Unknown, Volume VII, NASA SP-2008-4407, 2008, * by Anonim Pdf