Orders of Magnitude: A History of NACA and NASA, 1915-1976National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1976 - 100 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 1 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
الصفحة 29 - 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.
الصفحة 73 - Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface — "one small step for a man — one giant leap for mankind.
الصفحة 34 - Friendship 7 circled the Earth three times; Glenn flew parts of the last two orbits manually because of trouble with his autopilot. The United States took its astronaut heroes to its heart with an enthusiasm that bewildered them and startled NASA.
الصفحة 29 - Now is the time to take longer strides — time for a great new American enterprise — time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.
الصفحة 48 - This effort is expensive — but it pays its own way, for freedom and for America. For there is no longer any fear in the free world that a Communist lead in space will become a permanent assertion of supremacy and the basis of military superiority.
الصفحة 19 - In August President Eisenhower nominated T. Keith Glennan, president of Case Institute of Technology and former commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be the first administrator of the new organization, NASA, and Dryden to be deputy administrator. Quickly confirmed by the Senate, they were sworn in on 19 August. Glennan reviewed the planning efforts, approved most. Talks with the Advanced Research Projects Agency identified the military space programs that were space-science oriented and...
الصفحة 65 - States should enter the international competition for a supersonic commercial transport aircraft — a sweepstakes already entered by Great Britain and France jointly with their Concorde and by the Soviet Union with its TU-144 — NASA already had a solid data base to contribute. It also had the laboratories and the contracting base to manage the program. But wise counsel from Deputy Administrator Dryden led to NASA's retreat into a supportive R&D role; he argued that with Apollo under way, NASA...
الصفحة 38 - This synchrocyclotron in the Space Radiation Effects Laboratory is operated for NASA by the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Generating 600 million electron volts, this nuclear giant employs a large electromagnet to accelerate positive hydrogen ions to eight tenths the speed of light; the particles are then extracted for use in high-energy radiation experiments.
الصفحة 18 - Congress; both houses had already established select space committees; debate ensued; a number of refinements were introduced; and on 29 July 1958 President Eisenhower signed into law PL 85-568, the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. The act established a broad charter for civilian aeronautical and space research, with unique requirements for dissemination of information; absorbed the existing NACA into the new organization as its nucleus; and empowered broad transfers from other government...