Browse Items (26 total)

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  "Research grants and contracts awarded to 25 : NASA news."

  Press-release detailing 27 research grants sent to numerous universities.
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  "Organization of a countdown"

  The Organization of a Countdown was developed over 8 years of missiles and space systems testing at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Sacramento test Center. The experience on which this study was based includes the Thor development and acceptance testing, Titan I second stage engine development testing, Development of liquid hydrogen handling techniques, Saturn S-IV and S-IVB development and acceptance testing. The intent of this paper is to examine the static test countdown organization and discuss the need for a systematic method to organize a countdown.
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  "MSFC systems engineering capabilities (abstracts of reports)."

  List of proposals, plans and other sections with subsections that describe studies or projects under that criteria.
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  "Letter to the Vice President of the United States and White House."

  This is an attempt to answer some of the questions about our national space program raised by The President in his memorandum to you dated April 20, 1961. I should like to emphasize that the following comments are strictly my own and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in which I have the honor to serve.
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  "List of Academic Theses Since 1961 Related to the History of Aeronautics and Astronautics."

  This preliminary listing of academic theses of interest to historians and social scientists is made available for general information, critical comments and related suggestions. The NASA Historical Advisory Committee suggested that such a listing might provide useful perspective on contemporary scholarship. Mr. Charles Atkins, a member of our Summer Seminar on "History, Social Science and Space" and graduate student in Political Science at M.I.T., kindly undertook this task. The NASA Historical Staff is also sponsoring preparation of a bibliography of bibliographies on the history of aeronautics and astronautics, and is undertaking a list of research resources available for academic scholarship. These will be available sometime this fall. Eugene M. Emme, NASA Historian.; NNH-61.; FOREWORD: This listing represents a first attempt to compile academic theses of relevance to the history of aeronautics and astronautics. It has been estimated that almost 70,000 doctoral dissertations have been completed in American universities since 1961, so this select compilation must be regarded as preliminary. In accord with the desire of the Historical Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to assist scholarly research, it is hoped that this list may be suggestive. It will, hopefully, stimulate a response which will permit additions to this listing of interest to historians and other scholars concerned with science, technology, and public policy in the twentieth century.
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  "First Hundred Seconds."

  Keynote address at National Aeronautics and Space Administration to the American Rocket Society Conference on Launch Vehicle Structures and Materials. Speech focuses on problems facing the structure of Saturn rockets and other space vehicles.
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  "United Aircraft Quarterly Bee-hive:" January 1962, Volume XXXVII, Number 1.

  A book containing various articles surrounding the activities and achievements of the Saturn program up to January, 1962.
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  "United Aircraft Quarterly Bee-hive:" Spring, 1962: Volume XXXVII, Number 2.

  A book containing various articles surrounding the activities and achievements of the Saturn program up to Spring, 1962.
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  "Pan Am Clipper : Guided Missiles Range Division : December, 1964."

  A collection of articles, one of which musing about the landing on/colonization of Mars in the future.
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  "The instrumentation of space vehicle in connection with the successful Saturn flight tests."

  Presented on September 21, 1962, at the Eleventh Tagung Der Deutchen Raketen - Gesellschaft, Koblenz, West Germany. Instrumentation sf the Saturn space vehicle represents a considerable effort during the development phase, for proper design evaluatian of this new configuration, its propulsion system, and its structure and control characteristics, an unprecedented number of measurements are required to be carried onboard and to be recovered, These measurements are expected to work properly and to furnish the design engineer with information that is not available by ground testing,