Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903-2003Virginia Parker Dawson, Mark D. Bowles National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations, 2005 - Aeronautics - 310 pages |
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Page 217 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 251 - To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold — brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
Page 203 - 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.
Page 241 - Apollo's success in November 1968, when Science magazine, the publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, observed: In terms of numbers of dollars or of men, NASA has not been our largest national undertaking, but in terms of complexity, rate of growth, and technological sophistication it has been unique. ... It may turn out that [the space program's] most valuable spin-off of all will be human rather than technological: better knowledge of how to plan, coordinate, and...
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Page 36 - To want in one's heart to do a thing, for its own sake; to enjoy doing it; to concentrate all one's energies upon it — that is not only the surest guarantee of its success. It is also being true to oneself.
Page 45 - Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Page 235 - Rocket Team" at Huntsville, Alabama. Von Braun, according to Bossart, needlessly designed his boosters like "bridges," to withstand any possible shock. For his part, von Braun thought the Atlas was too flimsy to hold up during launch. The reservations began to melt away, however, when Bossart's team pressurized one of the boosters and dared one of von Braun's engineers to knock a hole in it with a sledge hammer. The blow left the booster unharmed, but the recoil from the hammer nearly clubbed the...
Page 205 - Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down — that's not my department, says Wernher von Braun.
Page 246 - Aldrin aboard — landed on the lunar surface while Michael Collins orbited overhead in the Apollo command module. After checkout, Armstrong set foot on the surface, telling millions who saw and heard him on Earth that it was "one small step for [a] man — one giant leap for mankind.