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... outlays, $0.5 billion was for national defense, "largely for improvements in our strategic forces, modernization of our tactical air forces, and other increased research and development efforts needed to ... design, with decision expected in May 1969. ''(NASA Release 69-4)'' Penn Central Railroad began electric-powered Metroliner service that would cut traveling time of 226-mi New York-Washington ...

... station assembly and maintenance; a 10-hour test shut-down of one of the Shuttle electricity-generating fuel cells in order to demonstrate the capability required to certify the Shuttle for ... air at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, the coffins appeared to contain modern air, as signaled by the presence of Chlorofluorocarbons, which were first manufactured in the 1940s ...

... very good, because you didn’t want to make those corrections. '''Wright:''' Did you have electric typewriters at the time, or did you start with a standard? '''Bowen:''' We started with standards and got electrics pretty quickly. Some years later, probably in the mid-70s, Jo Josephine C. Corey and ... place. One of the justifications for the new Control Center was that with all this modern technology, you wouldn’t need all that paper that you saw. That’s always a ...

... module. Deke—his specialty was applied mainly during ascent or entry, his knowledge of the electrical systems and all. If on orbit something went wrong, I was supposed to know more ... had its own advantages. Overall, of course, the Shuttle is better because of its more modern technology. '''Wright:''' And about twenty years after your mission, the Shuttle helped bridge another partnership ...

... we bought millions of dollars worth of analog computer equipment and developed, with GE General Electric Company and some others, all these sophisticated—what do they call it nowadays? Reality—you ... :''' Yes, Henry Pohl. Henry Pohl once told me that—see, the hydraulic system, unlike an electrical system, posed a lot of difficult problems. For example, there was hydraulic fluid running around ... office. I've had a lifelong interest and love of jazz music, traditional jazz, not modern jazz, the kind Louis Armstrong used to play. In fact, when I was at MIT ...

... the moon. Astronauts will explore the asteroid mass in the 2020’s, helping test modern spaceflight capabilities like new spacesuits and sample return techniques. Astronauts at NASA's Johnson ... the next 100 years. Teams at NASA centers spent 2014 testing various technologies, including solar electric propulsion, new spacesuits designs and sample collection tools, that will be used by astronauts ...

... out that I was more interested in mechanical engineering than the type of problems that electrical engineering dealt with. The reason I think I was impressed with mechanical engineers was because ... responsible for that, and if it was mechanical, I was responsible. If it was electrical, then the Electrical Branch would be responsible and so forth. Just direct support. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' What impact ... I think that’s when they selected White Sands Test Facility, to have the huge modern test facility. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' How long did it take to build the test area? '''Beckett ...

... 15 September issue featured, on its cover, perhaps the world's earliest depiction of an electric-propelled spacecraft. Moreover, it is a multi-''manned'' spacecraft. This remarkable concept, along with ... was unfortunately titled “The First Step to the Space Ship.” It is “unfortunate” from our modern perspective, since the rocket car was driven by multiple solid-propellant (gunpowder) rockets made ...

... and never left, except for a couple of years. I did my undergraduate work in electrical engineering and my graduate work in applied mathematics. I graduated with my doctorate in 1951 ... really meant that you could not lose your memory. That is, if you had an electrical failure, you would not lose your memory. … The memory consisted of little magnetic cores, and ... this was 72 kilobytes. …Several copies of the Apollo guidance memory… would fit in a modern floppy disk . That's how little memory we had. The thing that NASA didn't ...

... wanted to go. There was a lot of other discussions about trying to get static electricity discharge, or dielectric measurements between the Agena and the Gemini. That was abandoned on that ... checked out and all that, so I was kind of sitting at EECOM’s Environmental, Electrical, and Communication Officer console at his beck and call, in case something came up. We ... that, not totally, but to a large degree, that's been achieved in the more modern suits, so that the workload goes down to do things like that. Of course, in ...

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