The High-speed Frontier
Author : John Vernon Becker
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : John Vernon Becker
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : John Vernon Becker
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : John V Becker
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Aerodynamics
ISBN :
Author : John V. Becker
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
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Author : John Vernon Becker
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
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Publisher :
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN :
Author : James R. Hansen
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
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Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
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Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 1987-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287115287
Author : Steven J. Dick
Publisher : U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Law
ISBN :
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.