Managing NASA in the Apollo Era
Author: Arnold S. Levine
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
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Return to Earth
Author: Buzz Aldrin
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1504026446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. “We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator,” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia’s abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin takes readers on a journey through the human side of the space program, as one of the first two men to land on the moon learns to cope with the pressures of his new public persona. In honest and compelling prose, Aldrin reveals a side of instant fame for which West Point and NASA could never have prepared him. One day a fighter pilot and engineer, the next a cultural hero burdened with the adoration of thousands, Aldrin gives a poignant account of the affair that threatened his marriage, as well as his descent into alcoholism and depression that resulted from trying to be too many things to too many people. He didn’t realize that when he landed on his home planet his odyssey had just begun. As Aldrin puts it, “I traveled to the moon, but the most significant voyage of my life began when I returned from where no man had been before.” Return to Earth is a powerful and moving memoir that exposes the stresses suffered by those in the Apollo program and the price Buzz Aldrin paid when he became an American icon.
NASA Space Flight Program and Project Management Handbook
Author: Nasa
Publisher:
Published: 2018-03-21
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9781680920505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is in full-color - other editions may be in grayscale (non-color). The hardback version is ISBN 9781680920512 and the paperback version is ISBN 9781680920505. The NASA Space Flight Program and Project Management Handbook (NASA/SP-2014-3705) is the companion document to NPR 7120.5E and represents the accumulation of knowledge NASA gleaned on managing program and projects coming out of NASA's human, robotic, and scientific missions of the last decade. At the end of the historic Shuttle program, the United States entered a new era that includes commercial missions to low-earth orbit as well as new multi-national exploration missions deeper into space. This handbook is a codification of the "corporate knowledge" for existing and future NASA space flight programs and projects. These practices have evolved as a function of NASA's core values on safety, integrity, team work, and excellence, and may also prove a resource for other agencies, the private sector, and academia. The knowledge gained from the victories and defeats of that era, including the checks and balances and initiatives to better control cost and risk, provides a foundation to launch us into an exciting and healthy space program of the future.
Moon Lander
Author: Thomas J. Kelly
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2009-09-11
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1588342735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and maintainability. He catalogs numerous test failures, including propulsion-system leaks, ascent-engine instability, stress corrosion of the aluminum alloy parts, and battery problems, as well as their fixes under the ever-present constraints of budget and schedule. He also recaptures the exhilaration of hearing Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong report that “The Eagle has landed,” and the pride of having inadvertently provided a vital “lifeboat” for the crew of the disabled Apollo 13.
Chariots for Apollo
Author: Courtney G. Brooks
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-05-14
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 0486140938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illustrated history by a trio of experts is the definitive reference on the Apollo spacecraft and lunar modules. It traces the vehicles' design, development, and operation in space. More than 100 photographs and illustrations.
Humans to Mars
Author: David S. F. Portree
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Engineering Science to Big Science
Author: Pamela Etter Mack
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a collection of 16 essays on the NACA and NASA aerospace research projects that received the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy. From NACA achievements such as the Whitcomb Area Rule and the NACA Engine Cowling to NASA landmarks such as the first Space Shuttle flight and the Hubble Space Telescope's first servicing mission, this book covers a variety of important NACA/NASA achievements. We recommend it highly for all students interested in aerospace history.
The Management of Research Institutions
Author: Hans Mark
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926-1991
Author: J. D. Hunley
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2013-03-15
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1603449876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this definitive study, J. D. Hunley traces the program’s development from Goddard’s early rockets (and the German V-2 missile) through the Titan IVA and the Space Shuttle, with a focus on space-launch vehicles. Since these rockets often evolved from early missiles, he pays considerable attention to missile technology, not as an end in itself, but as a contributor to launch-vehicle technology. Focusing especially on the engineering culture of the program, Hunley communicates this very human side of technological development by means of anecdotes, character sketches, and case studies of problems faced by rocket engineers. He shows how such a highly adaptive approach enabled the evolution of a hugely complicated technology that was impressive—but decidedly not rocket science. Unique in its single-volume coverage of the evolution of launch-vehicle technology from 1926 to 1991, this meticulously researched work will inform scholars and engineers interested in the history of technology and innovation, as well as those specializing in the history of space flight.
Living and Working in Space
Author: William David Compton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0486264343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe official record of America's first space station, this book from the NASA History Series chronicles the Skylab program from its planning during the 1960s through its 1973 launch and 1979 conclusion. Definitive accounts examine the project's achievements as well as its use of discoveries and technology developed during the Apollo program. 1983 edition.
