Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume 1NASA, 1995 - Astronautics |
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... Shuttle Technological Capabilities Panel Technical Management Information System Transition Period Television United States of America University of California at Los Angeles Unidentified Flying Object Unmanned Launch Vehicles United ...
... Shuttle Technological Capabilities Panel Technical Management Information System Transition Period Television United States of America University of California at Los Angeles Unidentified Flying Object Unmanned Launch Vehicles United ...
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... shuttle - craft will drive directly into an air lock at the top or bottom of the stationary hub . The space taxi will be built to fit exactly into the airlock , sealing the opening like a plug . The occupants can then enter the space ...
... shuttle - craft will drive directly into an air lock at the top or bottom of the stationary hub . The space taxi will be built to fit exactly into the airlock , sealing the opening like a plug . The occupants can then enter the space ...
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... shuttle . Clearly , NASA was once again facing an uncertain future . The Decision to Develop the Space Shuttle Frustrated by the unwillingness of the Nixon administration to support the kind of space program he thought was in the ...
... shuttle . Clearly , NASA was once again facing an uncertain future . The Decision to Develop the Space Shuttle Frustrated by the unwillingness of the Nixon administration to support the kind of space program he thought was in the ...
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... shuttle should be funded , his views found a responsive ear . In a handwritten note on Weinberger's memo , President Richard Nixon indicated " I agree with Cap . " " OMB Director George Shultz was informed that " the president approved ...
... shuttle should be funded , his views found a responsive ear . In a handwritten note on Weinberger's memo , President Richard Nixon indicated " I agree with Cap . " " OMB Director George Shultz was informed that " the president approved ...
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... shuttle approval would be made public . At that meeting , the president asked NASA to stress the view that the shuttle made economic sense , but " even if it were not a good investment , we would have to do it anyway , because space ...
... shuttle approval would be made public . At that meeting , the president asked NASA to stress the view that the shuttle made economic sense , but " even if it were not a good investment , we would have to do it anyway , because space ...
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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.