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... ’s called something different now. And then every semester after that I ended up living near Hobby Airport in the Villa Monterrey apartments. I don’t remember how—there was an ... the contractor at that time. The idea was that the Shuttle was either operational or near being operational, so the development team, of which I was a member, was transitioning to ... Development Group had an office in what was called the GSA General Services Administration Building near the NASA Headquarters building. It turns out it had been a building built in the ...

... gain for the US. '''C. Peace: ''' Seizing the Opportunity to Avoid War The Moon is nearly a quarter-million-miles from the Earth, a distance that should offer protection to its ... , 2005; pages 15-16.) '''But Why A Lunar City ? ''' The Moon's surface area is nearly as large as North and South America combined. Under proper circumstances, well over one billion ... has had no experience. And, in principle, the varied interests of the Earth's very nearly 200 countries should be accommodated. Several professional studies address having people on the Moon to ...

... called block data, which would give them a de-orbit opportunity to put them down near a ship or someplace. When we were going to the Moon, we had the same ... it had was fuel cells. We had some batteries, entry batteries, but they were not nearly big enough to do what we needed to do, so we powered everything down. That ... doesn’t like it because they’re concerned about it. They have a problem right near the bottom. Right prior to touchdown, will it upset the airplane, crash, or whatever? So ...

... .jpg 300px thumb left border '''German newspaper, title and date unknown, but published in or near Magdeburg during June 1933, reporting on Project Magdeburg, front page.''' Image:Project_Magdeburg_1933_Pt ... old Phillip Ellaby Cleator (better known as P.E. Cleator), a British structural engineer living near Liverpool, England, who had recently (on 13 October 1933), formed the British Interplanetary Society. He ...

... good candidates for the mission are also helping augment NASA's existing work to survey near-Earth objects and identify those that could threaten Earth. In addition to the spaceflight capabilities ... Science Instrument Module, or the “heart” that holds the telescope’s instruments, successfully completed a nearly four-month test in a cryogenic thermal vacuum chamber. The test simulated the icy, -387 ...

... checkout, and we had to continue to preserve this cleanliness in orbit. Almost everything coming near the telescope had been subjected to vacuum bakeout, even the rubberized material on the boot ... under parachute and were reporting our altitude: 900 meters … 800 meters … 700 meters … As we neared the ground, I tugged one last time on my shoulder and waist straps, positioned my ... learn from my commander that once the pressurized shuttle reaches orbit it is in a nearly perfect vacuum, causing it to undergo discrete expansions that result in a loud popping sound ...

... . Planetary Resources Inc. and Deep Space Industries, both of whom are seeking to identify suitable near-earth asteroids for extraction have sought to use innovative new technologies, including 3D printing, to ... hypersonic flights with parabolic trajectories reaching 80 km to 100km altitudes. All of these new near space ventures and activities will require safety regulation and thus efforts to establish space traffic ...

... rockets, balloons, telescopes, and instrumented aircraft continued to increase knowledge of the universe. NASA launched nearly 80 sounding rockets from sites around the world. A significant accomplishment was the launch of ... hazardous trailing vortices were flight-tested. A NASA-developed prototype system to track aircraft wakes near airports, allowing traffic controllers to adjust aircraft spacing more closely, was being operationally evaluated at ...

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous ( Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous NEAR ) spacecraft successfully orbited the asteroid Eros, 160 million miles (258 million kilometers) from Earth, gathering ... on the Valentine's Day encounter, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous NEAR obtained images of a heart-shaped chasm on Eros. NASA planned for Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous NEAR to orbit Eros for about one ...

... first probe ever to accomplish such a feat. The landing was a bonus. Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous NEAR had already successfully completed a 1 billion-mile mission, which had provided pictures of ... , comet Hoylake, and the asteroid 253 Mathilde. After a carefully scripted 5-hour descent, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous NEAR touched down safely, traveling at about 4 miles (6 kilometers) per hour. The ...

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