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... GEOLOGICAL TIMES 123 - M. A. BODIN THE ORIGIN OF LIFE PART 1 : THE PRE-BIOTIC ERA 129 - PART 2 : MONOMERS TO POLYMERS 140 - PETER M. MOLTON POLYMERS ... INFEASIBILITY OF INTERSTELLAR RAMJETS 222 - EUGENE F. MALLOVE ROBERT L. FORWARD and ZBIGNIEW PAPROTNY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL AND COMMUNICATION - APRIL 1977 UPDATE 225 - J. S. GRIFFITH ASTRONOMICAL NOTEBOOK ...

... their expedition of 1804-1806. Mr. Ordway's interest in space was sparked as a pre-teen when he discovered a housekeeper's copy of the science-fiction magazine 'Amazing Stories ... Legacy of the Space Odyssey by Frederick I Ordway III and Robert Godwin :Category:Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology by Frederick I. Ordway III Image:9781894959827 ...

... Fundamental Equations of Rocket Motion - Part II 12 - Notes and News 17 - Current Bibliography 19 - Rocket Effect in Standard Airplane Performance 20 - 37 July 1937 - G. Edward ... of the German Air Torpedo 4 - Eric Burgess Rocket Experiments in Manchester: Pre-War Research by Amateur Group 6 - Letter to Editor 13 - Patents 14 - ...

... that’s going to be. So that’s what I chose to do. '''Rusnak:''' Had Sputnik and then America’s attempts to launch a satellite had any impact on you during college? '''Aldrich:''' Well, Sputnik was a big impact on everybody. The day the Russians launched Sputnik, or I guess by then it was the next day ... von Braun. Anyway, so I had followed all that starting with Sputnik, but I hadn’t thought about space before Sputnik. It was a dramatic start, although I just told you about ...

... final finishing school, the professional school, was NACA. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' What are your memories of Sputnik while you were working out at NACA? '''Kehlet:''' Well, I remember living in Hampton, and ... Group was thought of, and I don’t remember whether it was formed at Sputnik or not, but Sputnik was what, ’57? '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Yes. '''Kehlet:''' We might have started the Space ...

... the first time. ref 79 2.2.2. Space Poetry After Sputnik All of the poems so far were written before Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin, and Neil Armstrong. The authors had neither themselves ... ref 136 Popular music has been inspired by some specific space event, beginning perhaps with ''Sputnik (Satellite Girl)'' , by Jerry Engler and the Four Ekkos (1957). Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering flight ...

... often called the “father of satellite communications”. In 1945, twelve years before the launch of Sputnik, Clarke published an article in ''Wireless World '' that outlined how to use the special geosynchronous ... , shipping companies, and by public subscription. The practical origins of satellite navigation go back to Sputnik in 1957. Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University found that they could determine the orbit ...

... satellite was a feat of science. But the Worldwide impact and importance were essentially political. Sputnik I was proclaimed by the Soviets as validation of Communist prophecies about the superiority of ... the unfortunate anti-intellectualism of the early 1950's. . . . The open contempt with which the Sputnik I success was greeted by some in positions of political trust betrayed a degeneration of ...

... . Allen Hyneck of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge Mass, says that the orbit of Sputnik 1 was calculated in 21 seconds by a computer at MIT. This calculation was only possible after painstaking observations by spotters around the world. The booster of Sputnik 1 was orbiting every 96.03 minutes and was expected to remain in space for ...

... , saying that "no single event in history assaulted America's image of itself as did Sputnik." Subsequent U.S. space ventures "did nothing but tarnish that image," the Army and Navy ... today. He's more interested in Pac-Man, which you might call an outgrowth of Sputnik." If Sputnik led to Pac-Man, the Washington Post said, it also "helped to pro-duce ...

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