This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury, Volumen10

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Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966 - 681 páginas

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Página 6 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Página 118 - The establishment of long-range studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of aeronautical...
Página 6 - ... the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in free flight, had sailed forward on a level course without reduction of speed, and had finally landed without being wrecked.
Página 82 - There are about to be perfected and produced powerful new weapons which, availing of outer space, will greatly increase the capacity of the human race to destroy itself. If indeed it be the view of the Soviet Union that we should not go on producing ever newer types of weapons, can we not stop the production of such weapons, which would use or, more accurately, misuse, outer space, now for the first time opening up as a field for man's exploration? Should not outer space be dedicated to the peaceful...
Página 335 - House space committee's demands for an all-out crash program for a lunar landing. President Kennedy, consistent with one of his campaign promises, reacted to the Gagarin announcement by saying, "We are behind . . . the news will be worse before it is better, and it will be some time before we catch up.
Página 516 - ... evaluation of all NASA research and technological programs conducted primarily to demonstrate the feasibility of advanced concepts, structures, components, or systems that may have general applications to the Nation's aeronautical or space objectives.
Página 76 - A Program for Expansion of NACA Research in Space Flight Technology," it called for a "major expansion" of NACA activity to "provide basic research in support of the development of manned satellites and the travel of man to the moon and nearby planets.
Página 58 - Mach numbers between 4 and 10, and [that] the NACA devote a modest effort to problems associated with unmanned and manned flights at altitudes from 50 miles to infinity and at speeds from Mach number 10 to the velocity of escape from the Earth's gravity.25 This meeting marked the inception of the X-15 project.
Página 98 - Act, shall( 1 ) plan, direct, and conduct aeronautical and space activities; (2) arrange for participation by the scientific community in planning scientific measurements and observations to be made through use of aeronautical and space vehicles, and conduct or arrange for the conduct of such measurements and observations; and (3) provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning its activities and the results thereof.
Página 84 - AN ACT To provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes.

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