Science & Math
mobi |eng | 2013-08-07 | Author:Grimwood, James M. & Hacker, Barton C. & Vorzimmer, Peter J. [Grimwood, James M.]

October 14 The Mission Planning Coordination Group discussed the feasibility of rendezvous at first apogee, as proposed by Richard R Carley of the Gemini Project Office. The group concluded that ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation 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 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Robert S. Arrighi

Image credit: NASA C–1955–38660 Image 92: The PSL, partially obscured by a cloud of steam, was located in a densely populated area of NACA’s Cleveland lab. The 8- by 6-Foot ...
( Category: History September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Spaceflight News, World & Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National

The VHF communications problem associated with command module reception of lunar module voice during ascent and the early part of rendezvous resulted from a low squelch-sensitivity setting in the command ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lanius, Roger D.; Logsdon, John M.; Smith, Robert W.

1. The author wishes to thank Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C. of the University of Notre Dame, Dwayne A. Day of the George Washington University Space Policy Institute, Ronald Doe! of Oregon ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Logsdon, John M. [Logsdon, John M.]

The presidential party as President Kennedy toured the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on September 11, 1962. Identifiable in the image, in addition to President Kennedy are (left ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Hugh Harris

Chapter Nine: Whose Fault Was It? Soon after the accident, there were rumors of a meeting that took place the night before the launch that should have stopped it but ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Richard Russell Lawrence [Lawrence, Richard Russell]

One of the first things Neil did on the surface was take a sample of the lunar soil in case we had to terminate our moon walk early. Now he ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Spaceflight News, World & Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National

All APU fuel and water cooling heater systems operated nominally and maintained temperatures within the respective system's operational limits during the on-orbit period. At lift-off, APU system 3 exhaust gas ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-12-02 | Author:Joseph Angelo [Angelo, Joseph]

Figure 76. The mosaic of several hundred images from the Mariner 10 provides an enhanced view of Mercury’s southern hemisphere. (Photograph courtesy of NASA/JPL) NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft provided the ...
( Category: Children's Books 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 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Apollo Expeditions to the Moon

On mock lunar terrain, wearing restrictive pressure suits, Schmitt and Cernan practiced collecting geological samples. They were drilled in formal sampling procedure: locate, radio description of size and color, photograph ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Jay Gallentine [Gallentine, Jay]

14 Devil from Redondo A horrendous undertaking. —Loyal Goff of NASA’s Viking Program Office, on the Viking Biology Instrument Unfettered and indiscriminate in attitude and behavior, the Looney Tunes Tasmanian ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1991-07-01 | Author:Ernest W. Maurer, Ph.D.

Safety and Safe Haven Danger to the Station from fire, a meteoroid impact penetrating the hull of a module, ionized radiation from an unpredictably large solar flare, or crew illness ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:Burgess, Colin & Doolan, Kate [Burgess, Colin]

Hank West, who by now had retired from the air force and was working for General Dynamics, made the following observation: “Remembering Ed’s competiveness, persistence and love of adventure, I ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )