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From engineering science to big science : the NACA and NASA Collier Trophy research project winners
- Title
- From engineering science to big science : the NACA and NASA Collier Trophy research project winners / edited by Pamela E. Mack.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mack, Pamela Etter.
- Description
- xxiii, 427 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- NASA SP ; 4219
- The NASA history series
- Uniform Title
- NASA SP (Series) ; 4219.
- NASA history series
- Subjects
- Aeronautics > Research
- Aerospace engineering
- History
- Government publications
- UNITED STATES
- United States
- NASA PROGRAMS
- RESEARCH
- AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
- ASTRONAUTICS
- Collier Trophy
- Airplanes > Design and construction
- Aeronautics > Research > United States > History
- Airplanes > United States > Design and construction > History
- Aerospace engineering > United States > History
- Genre/Form
- Government publications
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Engineering science and the development of the NACA low-drag engine cowling / James R. Hansen -- Lew Rodert, epistemological liaison, and thermal de-icing at Ames / Glenn E. Bugos -- Research in supersonic flight and the breaking of the sound barrier / John D. Anderson, Jr. -- The transonic wind tunnel and the NACA technical culture / Steven T. Corneliussen -- The Whitcomb area rule: NACA aerodynamics research and innovation / Lane E. Wallace -- The X-15 hypersonic flight research program: politics and permutations at NASA / W.D. Kay -- The Collier as commemoration: the Project Mercury astronauts and the Collier Trophy / Jannelle Warren-Findley -- Managing America to the moon: a coalition analysis / W. Henry Lambright -- The human touch: the history of the Skylab program / Donald C. Elder -- LANDSAT and the rise of earth resources monitoring / Pamela E. Mack -- Voyager: the grand tour of big science / Andrew J. Butrica -- The space shuttle's first flight: STS-1 / Henry C. Dethloff -- More favored than the birds: the manned maneuvering unit in space / Anne Millbrooke -- The advanced turboprop project: radical innovation in a conservative environment / Mark D. Bowles and Virginia P. Dawson -- Return to flight: Richard H. Truly and the recovery from the Challenger accident / John M. Logsdon -- The Hubble space telescope servicing mission / Joseph N. Tatarewicz.
- ISBN
- 0160496403
- 9780160496400
- LCCN
- 97027899
- OCLC
- ocm37451762
- 37451762
- SCSB-9321659
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library