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... I tried to build a rheostat which would allow the electric motor to change speed and then get various air flows through ... at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. and at North American Aviation, Inc. and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. also were doing similar kinds ... leave some of your goals behind. '''Brinkley:''' What was the reaction in mission control when you reentered communications with them? ...

... It was a completely totally different thing. Sputnik. "What was your reaction to Sputnik? What was the general mood?" You mean changes ... but one guidance contractor, AC Spark—AC division of General Motors, did eventually fold in Raytheon (Company), who did the computer, ... Langley and later went to work for North American Aviation, Inc. … Anyway, so I started exploring some alternatives to coming to ...

... accomplished using space propulsion include controlling the spin-up or spin-down of spacecraft, “unloading” reaction or momentum wheels on a satellite, separating vehicle stages, or settling propellants (sometimes required by ... a chemical reaction. The energy required for the thrust generation is stored in the chemical reactants themselves. The expellants are also formed by the chemical reactions taking place in the rocket motor. Therefore ...

... Student of Rocketry 17 - Robert Uddenberg A Simplified Expression for Jet Reaction 19 - 35 October 1936 - Eugen Sanger The Rocket Combustion Motor 2 - James H. Wyld Fundamental Equations of Rocket Motion 13 ... Healy Aerial Cannon and Rocket Shells 3 - A. Ananoff Problems of the Reaction Engine 9 - Cedric Giles Tank Pressures and Motor Efficiencies: 14 - Bernard Smith Letters to the Editor 15 - 49 August ...

... by electrical means, such as sensors (gyros, accelerometers, tachometers, and so on), computers, and motors. However, the principle of the feedback control has never been outdated. Although the ... spacecraft, possibly with internal baffles to increase internal friction. 8.4.3 Reaction Control System A reaction control system (RCS) is another key spacecraft subsystem that is composed of an ...

... - “For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction” - that explains rocket motion, became more widely accepted.) ref ... (the Benno Jakubowitz Firework Company) of Breslau for “rocket motors for model experiments (and) inexpensive supplies (of the same).” ... Astronautics'', AAS History Series, Vol. 7, Part 2 (Univelt, Inc.: San Diego, California, 1986), pp. 143-153; Ley, ''Rockets, Missiles'', ...

... invited to give a lecture to the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn Michigan , who was also doing similar research. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' What was the reaction of the auto industry to your research ... on STS-2, I was sent to the Cape and supported CBS Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. on the launch with Walter Cronkite, which was a really outstanding experience. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Can ...

... checkout equipment - ACED AC Electronics Division, General Motors Corporation - ACQ Acquisition - ACRIM Active Cavity ... - RCA Radio Corporation of America - RCS Reaction Control System - RCU Remote Control Unit - ... Group, NASA - STGE Stage - STL Space Technology Laboratories, Inc. - STR Strength - STRAT Stratospheric Tracers of Atmospheric Transport - STRB ...

... to the World's Fair in 1939 in New York. The General Motors exhibit was talking about the future of the country and the ... was a group in Washington that supported Headquarters, it was called Bellcomm Inc. . It was like the SI, the systems integrator concept. They sat on ... fall into a lake or a pond, you could set off a reaction, because these were water-cooler reactors, and they slowed the neutrons ...

... founders Peter Diamandis and Robert Richards head Planetary Resources Inc. and Moon Express respectively. Robert Bigelow, the billionaire owner ... Bigelow Aerospace). Archytus of ancient Greece discovered the concept of reaction jet energy in the Fourth Century B.C. He ... Benson, who launched Benson Aerospace and pioneered hybrid rocket motors, and indeed all the companies that are backing the ...

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