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... THE VEIL Dwayne A. Day sheds new light on US-Soviet space relations in the pre-Apollo era. 256 - ASSURED ACCESS TO SPACE Roger G. Guillemette looks at Titan IV launchings ... ROCKETRY THAT CONQUERED SPACE, Part 1 Developments from the first ICBM to the launch of Sputnik are traced out by Timothy Varfolomeyev. 260 - RUSSIAN SPACE SHUTTLE PROJECTS, 1957-1994, Part 4 ...

... early events of the space race, such as the launch of Sputnik? Do you remember your feeling, on hearing about Sputnik and Explorer 1? Were you conscious of the politics of the ... we acknowledged much publicly. Not necessarily for fear of ridicule, but probably somewhat. '''Brinkley:''' With Sputnik, do you recall where you were when you heard about that? '''Armstrong:''' Yes. The Society ...

... . You know, it was fiction; never going to come about. Suddenly the Russians did their Sputnik thing and the U.S. got interested, and then President John F. Kennedy announced the ... , because I think they had them in St. Louis Missouri . But we would have a pre-FRR at Houston, where everybody who was going to go to the meeting would get ...

... , Federal government and private sector initiatives), it should be kept in mind that, measured from Sputnik, 2007 will mark the end of the first half-century of the civil space age ... of civilization's most important goals and activities, one of the greatest in history and pre-history. It would certainly be the outstanding civil space accomplishment of the second half-century ...

... those Apollo era years. In 1958, this nation was stimulated by the Soviets' launch of Sputnik One into collective national action to upgrade its educational and technological infrastructure, as it was ... States in ten years. Even though the United States had demanding fiscal constraints at that pre-Apollo time, Congress appropriated a billion-dollar National Defense Education Act ($6B in today's ...

... ''' Today words like "outer space," "the heavens," and "the cosmos" conjure up images such as Sputnik; astronauts Yuri Gagarin,Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom; huge Saturn rockets thrusting the Apollo astronauts ... more than 1000 years. A henge, unique to the British Isles, is generally a circular pre-historic enclosure with a surrounding ditch. Some of the standing stones point to spring and ...

... go. I’d call and make arrangements. I’d get in there. Security was all pre-planned . You went there and you identified yourself and you handed them your authorization and ... :''' You were at NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics during the time of the first Sputnik, and then again when the Yuri Gagarin flight occurred, and when Russia was always that ...

... flying school in 1957, and I’d just soloed in October when they launched the Sputnik. And, you know, beginning of the space age. And 4 years later, of course, Yuri ... ’s what he wanted to do. He got a Master’s degree in—he was pre-med at Baylor University, Waco, Texas , but like his dad, fell in love with airplanes ...

... shows they all descended from the same Redstone engine. ref 12 The first artificial satellite, '' Sputnik 1 '', launched on 4 October 1957 that opened up the Space Age, was boosted into ... trumpeted the military uses of rocketry for the nation.” Peterson does cover, if briefly, the pre-experimental period of the Society's history (in the present work identified as ''Phase 1 ...

... becoming codified as “systems theory” a new era of space exploration began to open as Sputnik was launched in October 1958. Systems theory, a scientific and philosophical approach to studying a ... initialization by some other means, as they can only measure changes in orientation from a pre-determined reference point. In addition, all gyro measurements are subject to drift, and can maintain ...

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