Beyond Horizons; A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership

Verlag: Air Force Space Command in Association with Air University Press, Washington DC, 2002

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xxiii, [1], 383, [1] pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. David N. Spires is the author of Image and Reality: The Making of the German Officer, 1921-1933 and Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership. He is a senior instructor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership is a study of the United States Air Force in space. Of all the military services, the Air Force has been preeminently involved for the past fifty years in initiating, developing, and applying the technology of space-based systems in support of the nation's national security. Yet there has been no single-volume overview of the Air Force space story to serve as an introduction and guide for interested readers. In November 1992, a high-level Air Force Blue Ribbon Panel on Space, chaired by then Lieutenant General Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., commander of Air Force Space Command, concluded there was a specific need to better educate people, both in the service and among the general populace, about the history of Air Force space activities . Beyond Horizons has been written to meet this need. Beyond Horizons begins with a review of pre-World War 11 rocketry developments and the forging of the important partnership between the Army Air Forces' Brigadier General Henry H . "Hap" Arnold and noted Cal Tech aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman. Wartime provided important momentum in establishing the foundation for later Air Force space efforts . At Arnold's initiative, von Karman, late in the war, formed what became the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and produced Where We Stand. This seminal study provided the Air Force a research and development agenda for the future. Equally important, the Air Force sponsored Rand Corporation, in early 1946, issued a report on the feasibility of artificial satellites that would lead to the important Project Feedback reports of the early 1950S . Although the von Karman and Rand studies produced no immediate rush to develop space systems, the ground had been prepared. The final chapter serves as both a summary of the Air force space story and a point of departure for assessing Air Force space prospects for the new century. The Gulf War provided the momentum for the Air Force to take advantage of the further technological growth and refinement of military space systems and the emerging trends toward greater military use of civil and commercial space capabilities in order to better institutionalize space within the Air Force. The study concludes with an assessment of the Air Force's leadership position in the ongoing debate over service roles and missions and its vision for the nation's space program as the United States prepared to enter the 21st century. Revised Edition [stated], Third printing [stated].…

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Titel
Beyond Horizons; A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership
Autor
Spires, David N.
Verlag
Air Force Space Command in Association with Air University Press, Washington DC
Erscheinungsjahr
2002
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Trade paperback
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Ballistic Missiles, Persian Gulf War, Satellites, Space, Space Shuttle

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