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NASA's first 50 years : historical perspectives / Steven J. Dick, editor.

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Corporate Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Other Authors: Dick, Steven J.
Other title:NASA's first fifty years : histoical perspectives.
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, History Division : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [2010]
Series:NASA SP (Series) ; 4704.
Subjects:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > History.
Astronautics > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Steven J. Dick
  • NASA at 50 / Michael D. Griffin
  • Inside NASA at 50 / Howard E. McCurdy
  • Imagining an aerospace agency in the atomic age / Robert R. MacGregor
  • Leading in space : 50 years of NASA administrators / W. Henry Lambright
  • Space access : NASA's role in developing core launch-vehicle technologies / J.D. Hunley
  • NASA's international relations in space : an historical overview / John Krige
  • Fifty years of NASA and the public : what NASA? what publics? / Linda Billings
  • NASA aeronautics : a half century of accomplishments / Anthony M. Springer
  • Evolution of aeronautics research at NASA / Robert G. Ferguson
  • The NACA, NASA, and the supersonic-hypersonic frontier / Richard P. Hallion
  • Fifty years of human spaceflight : why is there still a controversy? / John M. Logsdon
  • From the secret of Apollo to the lessons of failure : the uses and abuses of systems engineering and project management at NASA / Stephen B. Johnson
  • The "Von Braun paradigm" and NASA's long-term planning for human spaceflight / Michael J. Neufeld
  • Life sciences and human spaceflight / Maura Phillips Mackowski
  • Voyages to Mars / Laurence Bergreen
  • The space age and disciplinary change in astronomy / David DeVorkin
  • Planetary exploration in the inner solar system / Joseph N. Tatarewicz
  • NASA's voyages to the outer solar system / Michael Meltzer
  • Deep space navigation, planetary science, and astronomy : a synergetic relationship / Andrew J. Butrica
  • NASA's earth science program : the space agency's mission to our home planet / Edward S. Goldstein
  • Earth observations from space : achievements, challenges, and realities / James R. Fleming
  • Earth science and planetary science : a symbiotic relationship? / Erik Conway
  • Exploration, discovery, and culture : NASA's role in history / Steven J. Dick.

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