9780160675959 - Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years Of United States Human Spaceflight Symposium, 8 May 2001 (2 Ergebnisse)

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Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Vincent Cavallero (Cover illustration) (illustrator). P`. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7.5 inches. vi, 247, [3] pages. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Stephen J. Garber is a policy analyst in the NASA History Division. He received a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh, a master's degree in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech. Focusing on national security space, he has also done a detail in the Pentagon's Space Policy office. His chapter on orbital debris was published in the 2016 Space Security Index and another essay on debris is forthcoming as a journal article. He has several relevant security clearances and also works on declassification of historical documents. He has written on such aerospace history topics as NASA's organizational culture, project management, the design of the Space Shuttle, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program. He also has been published on intelligence history. Human spaceflight is the driver for most activities that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) undertakes. NASA has a rich aviation research heritage and has also done pathbreaking scientific and applications work using robotic spacecraft, human spaceflight is a difficult endeavor that engenders great enthusiasm and support for NASA. This symposium contains sixteen fascinating essays about the past and future of spaceflight, written by some of the most important figures in the space community. A confluence of anniversaries made the spring of 2001 a propitious time for reflection on a forty-year record of achievement and on what may lie ahead. The fortieth anniversary of Alan Shepard's first spaceflight, took place on 5 May 2001. The fortieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight, the first time a human orbited Earth, took place on 12 April 2001. In addition, 25 May was the fortieth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's famous speech in which he proposed putting an American on the Moon "before this decade is out," initiating the Apollo Project.