Author: Alfred Rosenthal
Publisher:
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781495428685
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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The Goddard Space Flight Center is a partnership of many people – scientists, engineers, project managers, and administrators – whose combined efforts are needed to carry on and bring to fruition scientific and technological expeditions into outer space. While the Goddard Space Center came into being with the establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, its antecedents extend much further. Indeed, the Center inherited much scientific and operational competence from groups and individuals who had already achieved professional distinction. Under the guidance of Dr. Harry J. Goett, the Center's first director, 1959-1965, a most competent team came into being. This team successfully developed and launched a wide variety of scientific spacecraft, sent into orbit this Nation's first weather and synchronous communications satellites, and provided the tracking links for America's first man-in-space missions. The purpose of this preliminary historical report is to describe the Center's historical origins and traditions, as well as the projects and activities which the men and women of Goddard were privileged to make their contribution to the U.S. space program. In doing so, they not only opened a new path of exploration but were carrying on a tradition of scientific and technical curiosity envisioned two generations earlier by a then unknown New England professor – Dr. Robert H. Goddard.

Author: Goddard Space Flight Center
Publisher:
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Goddard Space Flight Center
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Lane E. Wallace
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Lane E. Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756732622
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Traces the legacy of the Goddard Space Flight Center over its first 40 years. It has played an important role in developing commun's., weather, & Earth resources satellites. Its Wallops Island facility has been central to sounding rocket, balloon, & aircraft research. Its tracking & data networks involved up to 24 countries, & it managed numerous international projects in earth & space science. It also launched over 200 scientific satellites. Its work covered every aspect of space science experiments, from developing theory to building the spacecraft, instruments, & launch vehicles; to operating & tracking the satellite in space; & finally, collecting, analyzing, & disseminating the data to the international scientific community. Oversize. Color photos.

Author: Alfred Rosenthal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Lane E. Wallace
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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An illustrated history of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center covers how space science and Earth science gets done at this Field Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It covers Goddard's origins at the Naval Research Laboratory and other facilities at the beginning of the space age.

Author: Russell R. Tobias
Publisher: Magill Bibliographies
ISBN: 9780810828131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Thoroughly annotated entries are arranged by subject and indexed by author. Most titles are generally available in public or college libraries; the many NASA publications may be obtained from government depository libraries. Intended as a research guide for high school and college students. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR