On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project GeminiNational Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, 1977 - 625 pagina's |
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On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini Barton C. Hacker,James M. Grimwood Volledige weergave - 1978 |
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Abstract of Meeting Aeronautics Agena Target Vehicle Air Force Apollo April astronauts Atlas-Agena Attn booster Burke Cape Kennedy Chamberlin Conrad Contract NAS 9-170 Debriefing Dineen docking enclosure engine Flight Plan fuel cell GATV Gemi Gemini IV Gemini IX-A Gemini Launch Vehicle Gemini Mission Gemini Program Gemini Spacecraft Gemini VIII Gemini X Gemini XI Gilruth Houston interview James John July June kilometers Langley letter Lovell Lunar Landing Management maneuvers March Mathews to dist Mathews to McDonnell Mathews to SSD memo ment Mercury Meyer Minutes of Senior Missile Mission Report Mueller NASA Hq NASA's Number Office Operations orbit Paraglider pilot problems Project Gemini Project Mercury Purser Quarterly Status Report reentry rendezvous Review Robert scheduled Schirra Schneider Seamans Senior Staff Meeting Sept Space Flight Target Vehicle thrusters tion Titan Titan II U.S. Congress VI-A Washington Weekly Activity Report
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Pagina 514 - NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Pagina 28 - ... Soviet Union. Informed opinion might discount Soviet accomplishments or stress American sophistication against Russian brute force; that smacked of quibbling to the American public, especially after 12 April 1961, when Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin aboard Vostok I became the first human being to orbit in space. Two days later, the chairman of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics was not merely speaking for himself when he asserted, "My objective ... is to beat the Russians." The President...
Pagina 378 - I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
Pagina 421 - Robert L. Rosholt, An Administrative History of NASA, 1958-1963, NASA SP-4101 (Washington, 1966), p.
Pagina 25 - Atlas-Agena-B vehicle (by the Department of Defense). First suborbital flight of an astronaut. 1961 First launching of a lunar impact vehicle. First launching of an Atlas-Centaur vehicle Attainment of manned space flight, Project Mercury. 1962 First launching to the vicinity of Venus and/or Mars.
Pagina 426 - Charles J. Hitch and Roland N. McKean, The Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960), pp.
Pagina 19 - But rigid wings could not be folded neatly away when not in use, and they were inherently far heavier. Rogallo first realized what this might mean in 1952, when he chanced across an article on space travel with beautiful illustrations depicting rigid-winged gliders mounted on top of huge rockets. I thought that the rigid-winged gliders might better be replaced by vehicles with flexible wings that could be folded into small packages during the launching.
Pagina 419 - Discussion with Dr. Houbolt, LRC, concerning the possible incorporation of a lunar orbital rendezvous phase as a prelude to manned lunar landing," 30 Jan. 1961. 29 "Manned Lunar Landing Via Rendezvous," Langley Research Center, 19 April 1961; Houbolt, telephone interview, 30 Dec. 1966; letter, Chamberlin to James M. Grimwood, 26 March 1974. 30 Letter, Gilruth to Nicholas E. Golovin, 12 Sept. 1961; Gilruth, interview, Houston, 21 March 1968. 31 Purser, comments on Gemini draft history, 14 Jan. 1969;...
Pagina 285 - We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, probably in polar orbit. . . . Looks like he might be going to reenter soon. Stand by one. . . . You just might let me try to pick up that thing. Over "one...
Pagina 419 - ... cynicism nor sophistry, they do show a certain stoicism, albeit diluted, or watered-down. Actually, my prime source is far more modern than any of these figures of classical antiquity, and I am a little surprised that a scholar of Dr. Ford's erudition should not have identified it instanter. The • See Robert K. Merton, On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript, New York: Free Press, 1965, p. 275. Some years ago I was privileged to appear at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological...