ABSTRACT |
Topics covered include: NASA at 50;; Inside NASA at 50;; Imagining an Aerospace Agency in the Atomic Age;; Leading in Space 50 Years of NASA Administrators;; Space Access: NASA''s Role in Developing Core Launch-Vehicle Technologies;; NASA''s International Relations in Space An Historical Overview;; Fifty Years of NASA and the Public What NASA? What Publics?;; NASA Aeronautics A Half Century of Accomplishments;; Evolution of Aeronautics Research at NASA;; The NACA, NASA, and the Supersonic-Hypersonic Frontier;; Fifty Years of Human Spaceflight Why Is There Still a Controversy?;; From the Secret of Apollo to the Lessons of Failure The Uses and Abuses of Systems;; Engineering and Project Management at NASA;; The "Von Braun Paradigm" and NASA''s Long-Term Planning for Human Spaceflight;; Life Sciences and Human Spaceflight;; Voyages to Mars;; The Space Age and Disciplinary Change in Astronomy;; Planetary Exploration in the Inner Solar System;; NASA''s Voyages to the Outer Solar System;; Deep Space Navigation, Planetary Science, and Astronomy A Synergetic Relationship;; NASA''s Earth Science Program The Space Agency''s Mission to Our Home Planet;; Earth Observations from Space Achievements, Challenges, and Realities;; Earth Science and Planetary Science A Symbiotic Relationship?;; and Exploration, Discovery, and Culture NASA''s Role in History. |