Browse Items (29 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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  "Report to the Congress from the President of the United States"

  A report to Congress from White House regarding the accomplishments of NASA.
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  "Human factor systems."

  Reports and resumes detailing funds, guidelines and assets.
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  "Orbiting research laboratory/logistics spacecraft checkout requirements study."

  This report presents the results of the study of Orbiting Research Laboratory and Logistic Spacecraft Checkout Requirements as they relate to prelaunch operations at MILA. The study was performed jointly by the Florida Division and the Systems Research and Analysis Division of TRW Space Technology Laboratories for NASA under the terms of contract NAS10-1076.
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  "Opportunities for European Payloads on the Saturn Vehicle."

  Prepared for presentation to the Eurospace Conference. In this paper, we will not deal with the first two questions, which must be of interest to every potential experimenter, but only with the last question of vehicle availability.
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  "NEXUS concept of a large reusable earth launch vehicle."

  Aspects of Earth-to-orbit delivery are discussed and a cost analysis of the logistic operation and the cost of orbital operations are presented. Probabilities of success of orbital delivery and the operational and economic aspects of establishing large orbital installations and maintaining a large transportation volume in the 1975/85 time period are compared for the two cases using a large number of Saturn V versus a smaller number of 1-stage chemical Post-Saturn launch vehicles. Performance parameters of chemical, chemonuclear and nuclear launch vehicles are compared. The concept of a blunt launch vehicle configuration referred to as NEXUS is presented in detail. Applications of this configuration to chemonuclear propulsion and to a 50 ft diameter version of Saturn V with recoverable first stage are discussed.
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  "Vol. IV 3rd edition Management Information."

  This document contains copies of management charts and photographs maintained in the Management Information Office of the Executive Staff on Advanced Program and Research and Technology Areas.
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  "Letter to Dr. Wernher von Braun."

  Letter to Wernher von Braun from John M. Logsdon reiterating his request to use Braun's memorandum in his book as well as apologizing for any miscommunication.
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  "Letter to Dr. Wernher von Braun."

  Letter to Wernher von Braun from John M. Logsdon asking that Braun approves a request to quote his memorandum in his book.
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  "Launch Vehicle Recovery System Requirements."

  The primary considerations in the design and development of a recovery system applicable to present expendable first stage launch vehicles are discussed. The general requirements that define the essential characteristics of a feasible recovery system are derived from three critical phases during flight. The degree of criticalness is primarily influenced by the conditions at stage cutoff and separation. The three critical phses of flight are broken down into the following: (1) conditions and requirements between stage separation to re-entry; (2) re-entry; and (3) terminal descent and landing.