Astronautics & Space Flight
epub |eng | | Author:David Warmflash

1945 OPERATION OVERCAST In 1945, the US began Operation Overcast to locate German technical specialists in various fields. Authorized by President Harry Truman (1884–1972) and later renamed Operation Paperclip, the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Burgess

“Go” for a Third Orbit At this point Hawaii faded from contact, and the next station on his track was Point Arguello, California, manned by CapCom Alan Shepard who, after ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 18,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-07-14 | Author:Gerard K. O'Neill [O'Neill, Gerard K.]

Power satellites in twenty-four-hour orbit stay in constant sunshine above fixed point on Earth. The space-manufacturing site will be some distance from geosynchronous orbit. The costs of transport in space, ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 17,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:John M. Logsdon

Linking space achievements to his concept of American exceptionalism, Reagan suggested that “by accepting the challenge of space we’ll carry forward the same courage and indomitable spirit that made us ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Burgess

Communications then became very garbled as Sigma 7 flew out of the range of the Zanzibar tracking zone. During the few minutes before he flew into range of the next ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Carroll

( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-17 | Author:Bisney,John & Pickering,J. L. [Bisney,John]

On April 16, 1970, during the return trip to Earth, Lovell operates a Sony TC-50 audiocassette recorder on the pilot’s side of Aquarius , with the craft’s front window at ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-10 | Author:David Baker

The Navigation Base was the rigid structure on the side wall of the Command Module, providing a mounting for the Apollo Guidance Computer, the optical assembly consisting of sextant and ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Carroll

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 Michael CarrollLords of the Ice MoonsScience and Fictionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98155-0_22 22. You Can’t Go Home Again Michael Carroll1 (1)Littleton, CO, USA Taina was still playing the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:K.A. Zischka

By making use of the expression (3) for the correction of the time for the maximum altitude TMA, we deduce:(5) It follows then from (5) that for small values of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 9,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-03 | Author:Diane Vaughan [Vaughan, Diane]

Chapter Eight THE EVE OF THE LAUNCH REVISITED We now return to the eve of the launch. Accounts emphasizing valiant attempts by Thiokol engineers to stop the launch, actions of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Launius, Roger D.;

Earthrise, one of the most powerful and iconic images from the Apollo program, was taken by astronaut Bill Anders in December 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. This view of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 7,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Stephen Spignesi

Participants were given four options for evaluating their view of the statement: Definitely false: You are completely convinced that the statement is false and you would act without hesitation in ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-04 | Author:Sarah Scoles

Before the SETI scientists could find smart-looking signals from space, though, they needed to understand the strange signals the universe produces naturally, and the signals humans put out with their ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David J. Shayler

Data suggested that there would be no further requirement to maneuver the spacecraft to maintain its orbital altitude during the four-day mission. With Gemini 4 orbiting the world at about ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 4,2020 )