Engineering & Transportation
azw |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:World Spaceflight News & National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

The payload bay doors operated properly during both the opening and closing operations. Dual motor run times were exhibited in both cases. The radiators were not deployed. The tires, which ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Hall, R. Cargill; Dickson, Paul;

A few days later, in choosing the nonvisual secondary experiments for the Ranger Block IV spacecraft, NASA’s Space Science Committee passed over sky scientists in favor of their planetary colleagues. ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Robert Zimmerman [Zimmerman, Robert]

* * * It was now 4:29 AM (C.S.T.) on earth. The men in Houston’s mission control waited, barely able to speak or breathe. In the homes of the astronauts ...
( Category: Americas September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Bilstein, Roger E. [Bilstein, Roger E.]

Ripples of the S-II-T's destruction were felt in the launch schedule for AS-501; slippage in the S-II-1 flight stage had led to plans to use the S-II-T at Cape Kennedy ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National & Spaceflight News, World

The fuel cell 1 flowmeter failed at 221:01:30 G.m.t., but did not impact fuel cell operations (Flight Problem STS-28-05c). The output of the flowmeter initially drifted high with some upper-limit ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Peter W. Merlin; Gregg A. Bendrick; Dwight A. Holland

CONCLUSIONS As flight research has progressed to entail increasingly complicated aerospace vehicles flying at higher altitudes and speeds (and at times featuring unusual aerodynamic properties, such as those of the ...
( Category: Safety & First Aid September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:Compton, William David; Benson, Charles D.; Dickson, Paul

Astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin removing experiment equipment from a storage locker on the top deck of the workshop trainer. During the missions, unpacking and restowing equipment and supplies would take ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-15 | Author:Charles A. Murray;Catherine Bly Cox

1 “Flight Operations was not born effective,” one veteran reminisced. “It became effective.” Back in 1959, when the Space Task Group was first struggling to put the program together, nothing ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Leopold, George;

Southern Indiana, just beyond the city limits of Mitchell, Gus Grissom’s hometown. Young Virgil likely took in similar rural scenes as he peddled his bicycle out to the country home ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Claude A. Piantadosi [Piantadosi, Claude A.]

FIGURE 6.3. THE MASS BALANCE OF THE HUMAN BODY. Daily requirements are based on an average metabolic rate for a 70 kg man in a thermally neutral environment (140 watts). ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Glennan, T. Keith [Glennan, T. Keith]

I met at 4 o'clock with Hjornevik and the budget review committee to tell them what we had done with the budget mark-up. They seemed pleased and I was able ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )