Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume 1NASA, 1995 - Astronautics |
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... experiment with rockets and fuels for the next several years . A spectacular launch took place on July 17 , 1929 , when ... experiments . His ability to shroud his research in mystery was greatly enhanced by Charles A. Lindbergh , fresh ...
... experiment with rockets and fuels for the next several years . A spectacular launch took place on July 17 , 1929 , when ... experiments . His ability to shroud his research in mystery was greatly enhanced by Charles A. Lindbergh , fresh ...
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... experiments far away from anyone else . Between 1930 and 1941 Goddard carried out ever more ambitious tests of rocket components in the relative isolation of New Mexico , much of which he summarized in a 1936 study , Liquid - Propellant ...
... experiments far away from anyone else . Between 1930 and 1941 Goddard carried out ever more ambitious tests of rocket components in the relative isolation of New Mexico , much of which he summarized in a 1936 study , Liquid - Propellant ...
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... experiments with potential solid pro- pellants ) , but in 1938-1939 its members designed a lunar landing vehicle which influenced the Lunar Module used in Project Apollo during the 1960s . " [ I - 10 ] 34. The standard work on the ...
... experiments with potential solid pro- pellants ) , but in 1938-1939 its members designed a lunar landing vehicle which influenced the Lunar Module used in Project Apollo during the 1960s . " [ I - 10 ] 34. The standard work on the ...
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... experiments on them to study the upper atmosphere . Immediately thereafter the War Department estab- lished an Upper Atmosphere Research Panel , and although its name and scope of respon- sibilities changed periodically during the next ...
... experiments on them to study the upper atmosphere . Immediately thereafter the War Department estab- lished an Upper Atmosphere Research Panel , and although its name and scope of respon- sibilities changed periodically during the next ...
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... experiments with liquid propellants . It was also the first detailed discussion of a manned space station . The fact that it was not translated until much later meant that its impact on rocket re- search around the world was minimal ...
... experiments with liquid propellants . It was also the first detailed discussion of a manned space station . The fact that it was not translated until much later meant that its impact on rocket re- search around the world was minimal ...
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Page 612 - The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere...
Page 453 - 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. No single space project in this period will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.
Page 365 - States to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
Page 368 - States offer to the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) of the International Council of Scientific Unions to launch scientific experiments or complete satellites prepared by scientists of other nations.
Page 3 - Newton's law of gravitation states that every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, the direction of the force being in the line joining the two points (ref.
Page 333 - Fourth, space technology affords new opportunities for scientific observation and experiment which will add to our knowledge and understanding of the Earth, the solar system, and the universe.
Page 343 - The Administrator shall determine, and promulgate regulations specifying, the terms and conditions upon which licenses will be granted by the Administrator for the practice by any person (other than an agency of the United States) of any invention for which the Administrator holds a patent on behalf of the United States.
Page 428 - Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space, or by a trip around the moon, or by a rocket to land on the moon, or by a rocket to go to the moon and back with a man? Is there any other space program which promises dramatic results in which we could win?
Page 6 - Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down — that's not my department, says Wernher von Braun.
Page 454 - But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon — if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.