Engineering
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Green, Constance McLaughlin; Lomask, Milton; Dickson, Paul & Milton Lomask

9 THE TRACKING SYSTEMS TRACKING, as the term indicates, means measuring the position of a moving object, natural or man-made. Optical tracking with sighting instruments is as old as astronomy, ...
( Category: Engineering 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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Jay Barbree & Alan Shepard & Deke Slayton [Barbree, Jay & Shepard, Alan & Slayton, Deke]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Apollo 8: First Around the Moon APOLLO 8 COMMANDER FRANK BORMAN was emerging from a deep sleep, and he resisted the wakefulness that tugged at him. Where am ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Dickson, Paul [Dickson, Paul]

The Launching of Juno The actual launch vehicle that would put the first American object in space was sent by plane from Huntsville to Cape Canaveral (the same location where ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-19 | Author:Anousheh Ansari & Homer Hickam [Ansari, Anousheh]

Training for the Stars A NOTE FROM HOMER HICKAM Perhaps a short explanation would be helpful at this point to explain the differences between the American and Russian government space ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-11 | Author:Shayler David

• February 21, 1969 the first Ni launch vehicle was planned on this date to launch a Zond spacecraft to the Moon. However, just 70 seconds into the mission with ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )