Author: Jeremy R. Kinney
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9781626830370
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The NACA and aircraft propulsion, 1915-1958 -- NASA gets to work, 1958-1975 -- The shift toward commercial aviation, 1966-1975 -- The quest for propulsive efficiency, 1976-1989 -- Propulsion control enters the computer era, 1976-1998 -- Transiting to a new century, 1990-2008 -- Toward the future
The Power for Flight
Author: Jeremy R. Kinney
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9781626830370
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The NACA and aircraft propulsion, 1915-1958 -- NASA gets to work, 1958-1975 -- The shift toward commercial aviation, 1966-1975 -- The quest for propulsive efficiency, 1976-1989 -- Propulsion control enters the computer era, 1976-1998 -- Transiting to a new century, 1990-2008 -- Toward the future
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9781626830370
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The NACA and aircraft propulsion, 1915-1958 -- NASA gets to work, 1958-1975 -- The shift toward commercial aviation, 1966-1975 -- The quest for propulsive efficiency, 1976-1989 -- Propulsion control enters the computer era, 1976-1998 -- Transiting to a new century, 1990-2008 -- Toward the future
NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics
Author: Richard Hallion
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.
NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Return to Earth
Author: Buzz Aldrin
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504026446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. “We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator,” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. In honest and compelling prose, Aldrin reveals a side of instant fame for which West Point and NASA could never have prepared him. One day a fighter pilot and engineer, the next a cultural hero burdened with the adoration of thousands, Aldrin gives a poignant account of the affair that threatened his marriage, as well as his descent into alcoholism and depression that resulted from trying to be too many things to too many people. He didn’t realize that when he landed on his home planet his odyssey had just begun. As Aldrin puts it, “I traveled to the moon, but the most significant voyage of my life began when I returned from where no man had been before.” Return to Earth is a powerful and moving memoir that exposes the stresses suffered by those in the Apollo program and the price Buzz Aldrin paid when he became an American icon.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504026446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. “We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator,” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. In honest and compelling prose, Aldrin reveals a side of instant fame for which West Point and NASA could never have prepared him. One day a fighter pilot and engineer, the next a cultural hero burdened with the adoration of thousands, Aldrin gives a poignant account of the affair that threatened his marriage, as well as his descent into alcoholism and depression that resulted from trying to be too many things to too many people. He didn’t realize that when he landed on his home planet his odyssey had just begun. As Aldrin puts it, “I traveled to the moon, but the most significant voyage of my life began when I returned from where no man had been before.” Return to Earth is a powerful and moving memoir that exposes the stresses suffered by those in the Apollo program and the price Buzz Aldrin paid when he became an American icon.
Probing the Sky
Author: Curtis Peebles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626830219
Category : Research aircraft
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
With the development of supersonic aircraft, the X-plane era ushered in a new and challenging phase of flight. Researchers found that much of the knowledge accumulated from the previous, subsonic flight era did not apply to the emerging supersonic aircraft. These turbojet-powered planes also outpaced the usefulness of the wind tunnel, previously an indispensible tool of aeronautic research.This book explores the development of the X-series research aircraft, the planes that helped bridge the gap between subsonic flight and hypersonic flight.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626830219
Category : Research aircraft
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
With the development of supersonic aircraft, the X-plane era ushered in a new and challenging phase of flight. Researchers found that much of the knowledge accumulated from the previous, subsonic flight era did not apply to the emerging supersonic aircraft. These turbojet-powered planes also outpaced the usefulness of the wind tunnel, previously an indispensible tool of aeronautic research.This book explores the development of the X-series research aircraft, the planes that helped bridge the gap between subsonic flight and hypersonic flight.
Quieting the Boom
Author: Lawrence R. Benson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626830042
Category : Aerodynamics, Supersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626830042
Category : Aerodynamics, Supersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Apollo 16
Author: Robert Godwin
Publisher: Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Compiled here are many important documents about the Apollo 16 mission including the complete debriefing in the crew's own words.
Publisher: Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Compiled here are many important documents about the Apollo 16 mission including the complete debriefing in the crew's own words.
Wind Tunnels of NASA
Author: Donald D. Baals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 2, Flight Environment ..., NASA/SP-2010-570-Vol 2, 2010, *
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Shuttle, Houston
Author: Paul Dye
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316454540
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
From the longest-serving Flight Director in NASA's history comes a revealing account of high-stakes Mission Control work and the Space Shuttle program that has redefined our relationship with the universe. A compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles, and eleventh-hour saves that have given us human spaceflight. Relaying stories of missions (and their grueling training) in vivid detail, Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving Flight Director, examines the split-second decisions that the directors and astronauts were forced to make in a field where mistakes are unthinkable, and where errors led to the loss of national resources -- and more importantly one's crew. Dye's stories from the heart of Mission Control explain the mysteries of flying the Shuttle -- from the powerful fiery ascent to the majesty of on-orbit operations to the high-speed and critical re-entry and landing of a hundred-ton glider. The Space Shuttles flew 135 missions. Astronauts conducted space walks, captured satellites, and docked with the Mir Space Station, bringing space into our everyday life, from GPS to satellite TV. Shuttle, Houston puts readers in his own seat at Mission Control, the hub that made humanity's leap into a new frontier possible.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316454540
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
From the longest-serving Flight Director in NASA's history comes a revealing account of high-stakes Mission Control work and the Space Shuttle program that has redefined our relationship with the universe. A compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles, and eleventh-hour saves that have given us human spaceflight. Relaying stories of missions (and their grueling training) in vivid detail, Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving Flight Director, examines the split-second decisions that the directors and astronauts were forced to make in a field where mistakes are unthinkable, and where errors led to the loss of national resources -- and more importantly one's crew. Dye's stories from the heart of Mission Control explain the mysteries of flying the Shuttle -- from the powerful fiery ascent to the majesty of on-orbit operations to the high-speed and critical re-entry and landing of a hundred-ton glider. The Space Shuttles flew 135 missions. Astronauts conducted space walks, captured satellites, and docked with the Mir Space Station, bringing space into our everyday life, from GPS to satellite TV. Shuttle, Houston puts readers in his own seat at Mission Control, the hub that made humanity's leap into a new frontier possible.