Washington: NASA, 1976. — 592 p. This publication is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in NASA SP-7037 (5*0 through NASA SP-7037 (65) of Aeronautical Engineering: A Special Bibliography. NASA SP-7037 and its supplements have been compiled through the cooperative efforts of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the National Aeronautics and...
NASA: 1991. — 148 p. NASA Technical Reports. Previous design efforts of a cost effective and reliable regenerative life support system (RLSS) provided the foundation for the characterization of organisms or 'biological processors' in engineering terms and a methodology was developed for their integration into an engineered ecological LSS in order to minimize the mass flow...
Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1992. — 529 p. This is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in NASA SP-7037 (262) through NASA SP-7037 (273) of Aeronautical Engineering: A Continuing Bibliography. NASA SP-7037 and its supplements have been compiled through the cooperative efforts of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics...
NASA: 1965. — 108 p. This document is the summary volume of the final report of analyses conducted and mission descriptions developed by the Apollo Support Department of General Electric Company under Contract NASw-410 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The report was written in accordance with the requirements of Paragraph B4. 3.4 of the Work Statement and...
Fact Sheet. 1974. — 46 p. The Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) is discussed. The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to develop compatible rendezvous and docking systems which will provide a basis for docking and rescue on future spacecraft of both nations. The ASTP mission will include testing the rendezvous system in orbit, verifying techniques for transfer of...
Houston: NASA, 1975. — 294 p. The Apollo Soyuz mission was the first manned space flight to be conducted jointly by two nations - the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The primary purpose of the mission was to test systems for rendezvous and docking of manned spacecraft that would be suitable for use as a standard international system, and to...
NASA, 1966. — 995 p. This handbook and its contents are restricted to the requirements for Spacecraft 012. It presents, in one document, descriptions of the spacecraft systems and equipment, and listings of the flight crew operational procedures necessary for the safe and efficient function of the spacecraft throughout its planned mission. This handbook is designed primarily...
Houston: NASA, 1975. — 23 p. This report is based on an evaluation of preltminary data. and the stated values are subject to change in the final mission evaluation report. Elapsed times are referenced to the time of Soyuz lift-off. 12:20:00 G.m.t., July 15. 1975. References to mission days are based upon each day ending at 24:00 G.m.t. The Apollo Soyuz mission was the first...
NASA, 1974. — 1 p. Artist's drawings and call-outs depict phases of the joint US - USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), an Earth orbital mission which will feature rendezvous and docking of the respective spacecraft of the two nations. Рисунки и условные обозначения художника изображают этапы совместного американо-советского испытательного проекта "Союз - Аполлон" (ASTP) -...
NASA: 1975. — 64 p. In order to establish realistic deviation limits for the ASTP (SA-210) Launch Vehicle Operational Flight Trajectory, a dispersion analysis was conducted. The nominal trajectory prescribed for this analysis is the ASTP (SA-210) Launch Vehicle 500 Pound Launch Window Opening OT. The error sources considered are those associated with predictions of vehicle...
Houston: NASA, 1974. — 1 p. Dawn breaks behind the ASTP Saturn IB launch vehicle during the Countdown Demonstration Test. The Mobile Service Structure was moved away from the vehicle for the test, which is a step-by-step dress rehearsal for the launch culminating in a simulated T-zero and launch. During the test, the stages of the Saturn IB rocket are fueled as they will be on...
NASA. — 37 p. This Astronaut’s Photography Manual has been prepared by Hasselblad in close cooperation with the Training and Man-Machine Divisions at the Johnson Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. As a guidebook for the NASA Photography Training Program, it not only describes the operation of the Hasselblad 500 EL/M cameras used on the U. S....
London: New Cavendish Books, 1978. — 275 p. There is no sure way of knowing where to start our story. If we did it would fit the penchant for dates beloved by classical historians but the very beginning is just a bare strand in the fabric of history. Nevertheless, that trace thread has left an imprint just barely discernible yet sufficiently visible for a reasoned chronology...
Washington: Office of Naval Researching, 1961. — 124 p. Since man has actually accomplished the historical task of ballistic flight (Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961, and Gus Grissom, July 21, 1961), and of orbital flight (Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, and Gherman Titov, August 6, 1961), a compilation of events which have contributed to these brilliant feats is considered essential....
NASA: 1965. — 56 p. Characteristics of lunar landing research vehicle. This paper presents the significant technical details and research capabilities of a free-flight lunar - landing simulator as they existed at the time of the initial flights of the vehicle. The lunar-landing research vehicle (LLRV) consists of a pyramid- shaped structural frame with four truss-type legs. A...
Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1980. — 513 p. Movement of the rocket from the assembly site to the launch pad was scheduled for 20 May 1969. In slow sequence, the 142-meterhigh doors ponderously opened, retracting upward like a vertical accordion, revealing the launch vehicle inside the huge gray structure known as the Vehicle Assembly Building. As the folding doors...
Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1996. — 536 p. — (The NASA history series). Movement of the rocket from the assembly site to the launch pad was scheduled for 20 May 1969. In slow sequence, the 142-meterhigh doors ponderously opened, retracting upward like a vertical accordion, revealing the launch vehicle inside the huge gray structure known as the Vehicle Assembly...
Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1966. — 208 p. Achievements in rocketry in 19th century Russia are closely connected with the Petersburg Rocket Institute (PRZ) and its director Konstantin Ivanovich Konstantinov (1817-1871), whose name was known in those years to many artillerym en in Russia and abroad. On the basis of its experience in the production and...
Houston: NASA, 1974. — 67 p. A simulated lightning test was conducted on the backup spacecraft for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project mission (CSM-119) to determine the susceptibility of the Apollo spacecraft to damage from the indirect effects of lightning. It is demonstrated that induced lightning effects from low-level injected currents can be scaled linearly to those which are...
NASA Technical Reports Server. — Austin: NASA, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992. — 86 p. With the downturn of the world economy, the priority of unmanned exploration of the solar system has been lowered. Instead of foregoing all missions to our neighbors in the solar system, a new philosophy of exploration mission design has evolved to insure the continued exploration of...
English translation by Henry I. White. — 1953. — 207 p. With colour illustrations and a technical appendix. Mankind's love affair with the planet Mars is certainly not new. " n a s l°ng been recognized that Mars is the planet in our solar system most capable of supporting life. Until the 1970s, the existence of life on Mars remained an open question. We know today that there are...
Reprint. — Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1991. — ISBN: 0-252-06227-2 The algorithm of spaceflight laid out step-by-step in the terse lines of Wernher von Braun's Mars Project displays the logic that seventeen years later carried astronauts to the Moon. Humans have always dreamed of travel to other worlds . The g real rocket pioneers-Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, Goddard, Tso...
New York: The Modern Library, 1999. — 1176 p. In all the history of mankind there will be only one generation which will be the first to explore the solar system, one generation for which, in childhood the planets are distant and indistinct discs moving through the night, and for which in old age the planets are places, diverse new worlds in the course of exploration,” Sagan...
NASA, 1960. — 64 p. By the middle of 1958 the Aeromedical Field Laboratory of the Air Force Missile Development Center, at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, had won wide public and scientific attention with its research programs in biodynamics and space biology. Such achievements as the rocket-sled experiments of Col. (Dr.) John Paul Stapp, the series of animal and human...
New York: Praxis Publishing Ltd, 2006. — 454 p. — ISBN10: 0-387-27148-1, ISBN13: 978-0387-27148-4, e-ISBN: 0-387-27149-X Columbia - Final Voyage is the most comprehensive book about the final mission of Columbia STS-107 to date. I have known the author, Phil Chien, since I started working shuttle missions as a flight surgeon in 1998. He was always there asking the shuttle crew...
Houston: NASA, 1984. — 105 p. How much water resides in the martian crust? What forms does it take and how is it distributed? What role do the martian polar caps, atmosphere, and regolith play in the seasonal and climatic water cycles? These were just a few of the many questions considered by the eighty-three participants of the Water on Mars Workshop, held November 30th and...
Glasgow: 59th IAF Congress, 2008. — 17 p. The Ares I crew launch vehicle is being developed by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide crew and cargo access to the International Space Station (ISS) and, together with the Ares V cargo launch vehicle, serves as a critical component of NASA's future human exploration of the Moon. During the...
Moffett Field:Ames Research Center, 1990. — 519 p. Cosmos 1887, a b!osatellite containing biological and radiation experir_r s fromthe Soviet Union, the United States and seven other countries, was lauhched on September 29. One Rhesus monkey's feeder stopped working two days into the flight and a decision was made to terminate the mission after 12 1/'2 days. The biosatellite...
Internet resource, 2009. — 8 p. Many of the questions remaining to be addressed after the Cassini-Huygens mission require both remote and in situ elements to achieve the desired science return. Our understanding of the lower atmosphere, surface and interior (subsurface ocean) of Titan will benefit greatly from detailed investigations at a variety of locations, a demanding...
Second NASA Aerospace Pyrotechnic Systems Workshop February 8 - 9 1994. — Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 1994. — 370 p. Pyrotechnic devices and systems include: Ignition devices Explosive charges and trains Functional component assemblies, e.g., pin pullers, cutters, explosive valves, escape systems Systems, i.e., component assembly, ignition circuitry, plus the...
Proceedings of the First and Second History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics at Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 26 September 1967, and New York, U.S.A., 16 October 1968. — Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974. — 307 p. The fabric of the history of astronautics is woven of stories of individuals and small groups who developed the technologies of rocketry...
Washington: NASA, 1979. — 692 p. International cooperation was the keynote of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. During the 3 years after the project was officially initiated by a U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreement on May 24,1972, the great effort in coordination, communication, and integration culminated in the highly successful flight from July 15 to 24,1975. The 9-day flight marked the...
A Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Southampto: The University of Southampton, 2018. — 261 p. Few books have affected popular perceptions of space travel as much as Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. First published in 1979, Wolfe’s breathless hymn to the technological prowess and oldfashioned masculinity of America’s first ‘Mercury Seven’ astronauts likens...
Departament of Air Force, 1983. — 682 p. The Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Space Shuttle Program at Vandenberg AFB updates environmental information arising from additional environmental analyses and proposed program changes subsequent to January 1978. A major reason for issuing the Supplement is to respond to issues raised during the review of...
Houston: NASA, 1976. — 22 p. The Crystal Growth Experiment assessed a novel process for growing single c rystals of insoluble substances by allowing two or more reactant solutions to diffuse toward each other through a region of pure solvent in zero gravity. The experiment was entirely successful and yielded crystals of about the expected size, quality, and number.
Washington: NASA, 1978. — 555 p. Correspondance, interviews, official documents, and other published materials were used to trace the evolution of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project from the initial proposal for international cooperation in space use and exploration until the successful completion of the joint Soviet-American mission. Conceptual drawings of proposed docking modules...
Washington: NASA, 1977. — 217 p. Ancient peoples, perhaps thousands of years ago, undoubtedly conceived the idea of "reaching out" to Jupiter, the largest and most brilliant of the "wandering stars." But for mankind to stretch across the half billion miles to the giant planet of the Solar System many advances in technical and organizational fields of human endeavor had to be...
Washington: NASA History Division Office of External Relations, 2009. — 208 p. The F-1 mission was to provide seven and one-half million pounds of thrust for the Saturn V first stage. It was based on, except for size, pretty much the same technology being used for the ballistic missiles. Foreword Welcome Remarks Richard Gilbrech Steve Fisher Robert Biggs, Rocketdyne - F-1...
NASA: 1982. — 386 p. This document is the final report of a study on the feasibility of using machine intelligence, including automation and robotics, in future space missions. The 10-week study was conducted during the summer of 1980 by 18 educators from universities throughout the United States who worked with 15 NASA program engineers. The specific study objectives were to...
Washington: NASA, 1992. — 216 p. — (The NASA History Series). — ISBN 0-16-036174-5. On July 20, 1969 millions of television screens captured a new image in the iconography of American history. To the familar icons that stirred patriotic sentiment - the fiercely protective American eagle, the elegantly scripted parchment of the Declaration of Independence, the solemn countenance...
NASA Stennis Space Center, 2011. — 48 p. The Dream Early Models Skylab Salyut 7 Beginnings Definition Phase Power Tower Dual Keel Design Development Starts Freedom Winds of Change International Space Station A collaboration of 5 space agencies International Space Station Facts International Space Station Key Challenges ISS Key Lessons Node 1 “Unity” United States Laboratory...
Gilmore Martha S., Glaze Lori S., Baker Charles L., Tahu George J. Gilmore Martha S., Glaze Lori S. — NASA, 2010. — 49 p. The National Research Council's 2010 Planetary Decadal Survey Inner Planets Panel commissioned the Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Architecture Design Lab (ADL) to do an enhanced rapid mission architecture study, conducted under NASA Headquarters...
Washington: NASA, 1976. — 529 p. This document summarizes the experimental concepts and preliminary analyses (as of December 1975) for each of the 28 scientific experiments conducted during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project from July 15 to 24, 1975. The scientific topics are X- ray and extreme ultraviolet astronomy, solar astronomy, gamma-ray detectors, Earth studies (including the...
Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1989. — 192 p. — ISBN 5-03-000181-6. A Book on Outer Space. In the year marking the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space, I was responsible for running the “Small Intercosmos’’competition. It was given this title because with the Soviet children taking part in this competition were others from Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam, the GDR, Laos,...
Washington: NASA, 1963. — 238 p.; ill. A decision by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters in October 1961 extended the Mercury program by adding I-day missions after three- and- six orbit flights. Also, during the same year, follow-on manned space programs, later known as Projects Gemini and Apollo, began to take form. These events were rather unusual, for...
NASA, 1975. — 84 p. The preparation of the analytical approach and of the related software used in the inversion of the differential and rotating Doppler data obtained from the ionospheric experiment of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) is discussed. These data were collected in space-to-space paths (between the ASTP Docking Module (DM) and the Apollo Command Service Module...
NASA, 1978. — 85 p. A computer simulation of the ionospheric experiment of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was performed. ASTP is the first example of USA/USSR cooperation in space and is scheduled for summer 1975. The experiment consists of performing dual-frequency Doppler measurements (at 162 and 324 MHz) between the Apollo Command Service Module (CSM) and the ASTP...
NASA, 1977. — 646 p. Gemini was the intermediate manned space flight program between America's first steps into space with Mercury and the manned lunar expeditions of Apollo. Because of its position between these two other efforts, Gemini is probably less remembered. Still, it more than had its place in man's progress into this new frontier. Gemini accomplishments were...
NASA Conference Publication 2014. — Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2014. — 245 p. Symposia held at Mar del Plata, Argentina, October 10, 1969. Constance, German Federal Republic, October 11-12, 1970. Brussels, Belgium, September 23, 1971. Vienna, Austria, October 13, 1972. This two-volume publication presents the proceedings of the third through...
Journal of Air Transportation Vol. 10, No. 1 - 2005. — 24 p. This case study provides a review of National Aeronautics and Space Administration s (NASA's) involvement in system safety during research and evolution from air breathing to exo-atmospheric capable flight systems culminating in the successful Project Mercury. Although NASA has been philosophically committed to the...