[PDF] The Birth Of Nasa The Diary Of T Keith Glennan eBook

Author : Thomas Keith Glennan
Publisher : U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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The Birth of NASA--The Diary of T. Keith Glennan tells the story of the critical formative months of the new agency. The Introduction describes the background of T. Keith Glennan, the first NASA Administrator. After the Introduction, the book continues with Glennan's recollections of NASA from his appointment until the end of 1959. The 13 chapters are written in a diary format covering month-by-months his activities until he left the position in 1961. A Postscript, written in 1963, gives his views on the space program after he left office. A Biographical Appendix gives short sketches of about 400 individuals active in the space program during this period. Throughout the diary numerous explanatory footnotes by the editor clarify events an provide references for further details. Although Glennan's stay at NASA was short, his contributions are most significant, as he built the organization that would send men to the moon and serve the nation to the present time.

Author : Roger Launius
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
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ISBN : 9781478234067

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This book tells the history of NASA through the Diary of a person who had an enormous impact of the program itself. It goes through original ideas about the space program to missions that took place and many interesting facts.

Author : T. Keith Glennan
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
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ISBN : 9781499162851

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Early in the morning of 4 October 1957, T. Keith Glennan went to work, just as he had for more than a decade, at the president's office of the Case Institution of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio. This work is his summary of his work.

Author : Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried
Publisher : Springer
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319284282

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This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures for the U. S. space program. Then they boldly built hardware and facilities to accomplish those missions. The group existed only three years before they were transferred to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, in 1962, but their organization left a large mark on what would follow.Von Ehrenfried's personal experience with the STG at Langley uniquely positions him to describe the way the group was structured and how it reacted to the new demands of a post-Sputnik era. He artfully analyzes how the growing space program was managed and what techniques enabled it to develop so quickly from an operations perspective. The result is a fascinating window into history, amply backed up by first person documentation and interviews.

Author : Harrison Schmitt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2007-12-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387310649

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Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon—to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role—just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production—Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off.