Engineering & Transportation
epub |eng | 2013-10-23 | Author:Paul Casey [Casey, Paul]

Lovell shows a small tape recorder playing the theme music for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the song “The Age of Aquarius.” As he does, Haise works with ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

In the event of two successive scrub/turnarounds, SV constraints may require that additional serial or parallel tasks be performed in the second scrub/turnaround case. The 36 possible combinations of the ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Compton, William David;

To Fra Mauro, At Last The loss of the scientific information Apollo 13 would have returned from Fra Mauro made it necessary to reevaluate objectives for later missions. At its ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-27 | Author:Colin Burgess [Burgess, Colin]

A SINKING SPACECRAFT Unaware that Grissom was struggling to stay afloat in the ocean swells of three to six feet amplitude, Jim Lewis called upon all his flying skills and ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Paolo Ulivi;David M. Harland

Meanwhile, the other instruments had also been returning data. The initial runs of the gas chromatograph analyzed the composition of the atmosphere, finding it to be 95 per cent carbon ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:Dennis R. Jenkins

Researchers at Ames modified a North American JF-100C (53-1709) Super Sabre into a variable-stability trainer that could simulate the X-15 flight profile somewhat more convincingly than the NT-33, making it ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-08-03 | Author:Steven Lambakis [Lambakis, Steven]

What Is Being Said Abroad about Space and Warfare? One might get the impression that much of the above discussion is academic in nature, only tenuously connected to the real ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-11 | Author:Shayler David;Colin Burgess

Deep-space EVA When America was 184,000 miles from Earth, it was time for Command Module pilot Ron Evans to take his turn in the limelight. As Apollo 17 sped back ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Ezell, Edward Clinton; Ezell, Linda Neuman; Dickson, Paul & Linda Neuman Ezell

SPACECRAFT FAMILIARIZATION At the March 1973 Working Group meetings, Shatalov, in charge of cosmonaut training, and Bob Overmyer worked to pull together a “Crew and Ground Personnel Training Plan,” ASTP ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-08-12 | Author:Lipartito, Kenneth & Butler, Orville R [Lipartito, Kenneth]

8-8. Once test flights were done, the work of installing payloads to take advantage of the shuttle’s massive payload capacity began. Thus far the debate about turnaround time had been ...
( Category: Americas September 19,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-11-07 | Author:Lawrie, Alan [Lawrie, Alan]

Four F-1 AND J-2 ENGINES Five J-2 engines were used on the Saturn V second stage, and one was used on the third stage. They were manufactured by Rocketdyne at ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Lomask, Milton & Green, Constance McLaughlin [Lomask, Milton]

The meeting warmed up when, on top of this revelation, the NRL Martin representatives informed the Air Force Commander that they were planning to launch their first test vehicle during ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Dennis R. Jenkins

Image credit: Courtesy of the David Clark Company, Inc. The Model 18 was another attempt to provide a large dome that could cover a standard flying helmet and oxygen mask. ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Roger D. Launius & Dennis R. Jenkins

Image credit: NASA. Comparison of refractory and ablative shingle structures for a proposed orbital HL-10 thermal protection system. Hoag’s comments about the landing engines were quite negative. He reported that ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )