Author: United States. President
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ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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U.S. Aeronautics and Space Activities
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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United States Aeronautics and Space Activities
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Aeronautics and Space Report of the President ... Activities
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Aeronautics and Space Report of the President ... Activities
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Aeronautics and Space Report of the President: 1972 Activities
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Council
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Category : Lunar probes
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Category : Lunar probes
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Societal Impact of Spaceflight
Author: Steven J. Dick
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160867170
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160867170
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Aeronautics and Space Report of the President
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Rocket Dreams
Author: Marina Benjamin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743254171
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades since the last man walked on the moon...more time than between the first moonwalk and the beginning of World War II. Apollo did not, as had been promised by a generation of visionaries, herald the beginning of the Space Age, but its end. Or did it? Project Apollo, like a cannonball, reached its apogee and returned to earth, but the trajectory of that return was complex. America's atmosphere -- its economic, scientific, and cultural atmosphere -- made for a very complicated reentry that produced many solutions to the trajectory problem. Rocket Dreams is about those solutions...about the places where the space program landed. In Rocket Dreams, an extraordinarily talented young writer named Marina Benjamin will take you on a journey to those landing sites. A visit with retired astronauts at a celebrity autograph show is a starting point down the divergent paths taken by the pioneers, including Edgar Mitchell, founder of the "church" of Noëtic Sciences. Roswell, New Mexico is a landing site of a different order, the "magnetic north" of UFO belief in the United States -- a belief that began its most dramatic growth precisely at the time that the path of the space program began its descent. In the vernacular, the third law of motion states that what goes up, must come down. Thus the tremendous motive force that energized the space program didn't just vanish; it was conserved and transformed, making bestsellers out of fantasy literature, spawning Gaia, and giving symbolism to the environmental movement. Everything from the pop cultural boom in ufology to the worldwide Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) feeds on the energy given off by America's leap toward space. Rocket Dreams is an eloquent tour of this Apollo-scarred landscape. It is also an introduction to some of the most fascinating characters imaginable: Some long dead, like the crackpot visionary Alfred Lawson, who saw in space flight a new stage of human evolution ("Alti-Man"), or Robert Goddard, the father of rocketry, whose workshop in Roswell stands only half a mile from shops selling posters of alien visitors. Others are very much alive -- like Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog and partner with Gerard O'Neill in the drive to build free-floating space colonies, and SETI astronomer Seth Shostak, who has spent decades listening to the skies, hoping for the first contact with another intelligent species. Perceptive, original, and wonderfully written, informed by history, science, and an acute knowledge of popular culture, Rocket Dreams is a brilliant book by a remarkable talent.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743254171
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades since the last man walked on the moon...more time than between the first moonwalk and the beginning of World War II. Apollo did not, as had been promised by a generation of visionaries, herald the beginning of the Space Age, but its end. Or did it? Project Apollo, like a cannonball, reached its apogee and returned to earth, but the trajectory of that return was complex. America's atmosphere -- its economic, scientific, and cultural atmosphere -- made for a very complicated reentry that produced many solutions to the trajectory problem. Rocket Dreams is about those solutions...about the places where the space program landed. In Rocket Dreams, an extraordinarily talented young writer named Marina Benjamin will take you on a journey to those landing sites. A visit with retired astronauts at a celebrity autograph show is a starting point down the divergent paths taken by the pioneers, including Edgar Mitchell, founder of the "church" of Noëtic Sciences. Roswell, New Mexico is a landing site of a different order, the "magnetic north" of UFO belief in the United States -- a belief that began its most dramatic growth precisely at the time that the path of the space program began its descent. In the vernacular, the third law of motion states that what goes up, must come down. Thus the tremendous motive force that energized the space program didn't just vanish; it was conserved and transformed, making bestsellers out of fantasy literature, spawning Gaia, and giving symbolism to the environmental movement. Everything from the pop cultural boom in ufology to the worldwide Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) feeds on the energy given off by America's leap toward space. Rocket Dreams is an eloquent tour of this Apollo-scarred landscape. It is also an introduction to some of the most fascinating characters imaginable: Some long dead, like the crackpot visionary Alfred Lawson, who saw in space flight a new stage of human evolution ("Alti-Man"), or Robert Goddard, the father of rocketry, whose workshop in Roswell stands only half a mile from shops selling posters of alien visitors. Others are very much alive -- like Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog and partner with Gerard O'Neill in the drive to build free-floating space colonies, and SETI astronomer Seth Shostak, who has spent decades listening to the skies, hoping for the first contact with another intelligent species. Perceptive, original, and wonderfully written, informed by history, science, and an acute knowledge of popular culture, Rocket Dreams is a brilliant book by a remarkable talent.
Benefits Stemming from Space Exploration
Appalachian Regional Commission, Civil Aeronautics Board, Civil defense activities, Civil Service Commission, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Emergency health activities, Federal Aviation Agency, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Power Commission, Federal Trade Commission, General Accounting Office, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Council, National Capital Housing Authority, Office of Emergency Planning, Veterans' Administration
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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