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AAS Explorer lookingback: Woomera | 17 AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY Newsletter of the AAS History Committee | www.astronautical.org | Editor: Tim Chamberlin ([email protected]) INSIDE Join us at national meeting OCTOBER 2007 | ISSUE 4 elcome to this “back-to- school” issue of Explorer. I W suppose the school refer- ence is appropriate since many of our members (and readers) are affected by the start of the school year, either as students, teachers or parents. And that doesn’t even begin to address the natural inquisitiveness and thirst for knowledge that lurks within each of By Michael L. Ciancone, Chair, AAS History Committee us, hence my choice of taglines for this note. An important event for us is the Nov. 13. I will have the honor of upcoming AAS national conference, presenting the 2006 Emme Award for REMEMBERING which will be held at the South Shore Astronautical Literature to Peter J. JPL CO-FOUNDER Harbour Resort in League City, Westwick for Into the Black – JPL Texas, Nov 12-14. and the American Space Program, ® One of the leading “rocket I have arranged a History men” from the era of Sputnik and 1976-2004 (Yale University Press), as Explorer dies / 18 Committee meeting in conjunction well as recognizing Maura P. with the conference at 2 p.m. on Mackowski with an Honorable ® Google Moon adds to its Apollo multimedia gallery / 2 Nov. 13. Although this meeting is Mention for Testing the Limits – ® Frank Winter, a member of the primarily for the benefit of commit- Aviation Medicine and the Origins of AAS History Committee, retires tee members, I would like to extend Manned Space Flight (Texas A&M after 39 years with the National an open invitation to others who University Press). Air and Space Museum / 3 might share an interest in our activi- You can read reviews of their ® The American Astronautical Society’s national conference is ties. winning entries in the upcoming fast approaching / 9-10 One of the highlights of the issue of Space Times that will be conference will be the presentation distributed at the conference. of awards during the awards banquet See you in Houston! “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) www.quotationspage.com A Q&A with Joan Johnson-Freese of Newport, R.I., professor and chair of Spotlight the Department of National Security Decision-Making, Naval War College, 12 and the newest member of the AAS History Committee. AMERICAN ASTRONAUTICAL SOCIETY | AMERICA’S NETWORK OF SPACE PROFESSIONALS EXPLORER 2 NEWSLETTER OF THE AAS HISTORY COMMITTEE ¢ IN THE NEWS Google adds Apollo imagery, movies to Web site OFFETT FIELD, Calif. — New higher-resolution planning and data analysis. lunar imagery and maps that include NASA multi- The new site is designed to be user-friendly and M media content now are available on the Google encourage the exchange of data and ideas among scien- Moon Web site. tists and amateur astronomers. Updates include new content from the Apollo The announcement made in September closely missions, such as dozens follows the release of new of embedded panoramic NASA content in Google images, links to audio clips Earth, including photo- and videos and descrip- graphs taken by NASA tions of the astronauts’ astronauts and imagery activities during the from NASA’s Earth observ- missions. The new content ing satellite sensors, such as is overlaid on updated, the Sea-viewing Wide Field higher-resolution lunar of View Sensor, Landsat maps. and the Moderate Also added are Resolution Imaging detailed charts of different Spectrometer. regions of the moon simu- Astronaut photography lating a lunar mission suit- was developed in collabora- able for use by anyone. tion with the Crew Earth “NASA’s objective is Observations team, part of for Google Moon to the Image Science and become a more accurate Analysis Laboratory at the and useful lunar mapping Johnson Space Center in platform that will be a Houston. Satellite imagery of foundation for future Web- Earth was developed in part- based moon applications, nership with the Earth much like the many appli- Observatory team at cations that have been built Goddard Space Flight on top of Google Maps," Center in Greenbelt, Md. said Chris C. Kemp, direc- HTTP://MOON.GOOGLE.COM The alliance was tor of strategic business accomplished under a Space development at NASA’s Act Agreement signed in Ames Research Center. December 2006 by Google and NASA’s Ames Research “This will make it easier for scientists everywhere to Center. make lunar data more available and accessible,” he said. Google is headquartered near Ames in northern Google Moon’s visible imagery and topography are California’s Silicon Valley. aligned with the recently updated lunar coordinate For more information on Google Moon, visit: system and can be used for scientifically accurate mission http://moon.google.com PAGE 2 WWW.ASTRONAUTICAL.ORG OCTOBER 2007 | ISSUE 4 ¢ IN THE NEWS COURTESY NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM Frank Winter during the restoration of the Starship Enterprise model used in the Star Trek television series. Winter retires after four decades with NASM By Mike Ciancone C. Clarke and acquire some hands-on experience with hardware. rank Winter, a member of the AAS History Among Winter’s unfinished business is a book that Committee, recently retired after 39 years with the will assess the technical accomplishments of Robert H. F Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and Goddard and trace the evolution of his early theories on is attempting to ease into semi-retirement. spaceflight. Winter started at NASM when the department was According to Frank, the book will not be a biography under the leadership of Frederick C. Durant. He was with the exception of an introductory biographical chap- named as curator of rocketry in 1984 and managed ter. primary collections associated with rocketry and popular “Biographies have already been written on Goddard,” culture and space. Winter said, “but this book will be different in more His position afforded him the opportunity to meet closely examining the technical side of the Goddard story many important and notable figures, including David and to show Goddard’s true role, or roles, in rocketry and Lasser, Wernher von Braun, Hermann Oberth and Arthur space flight.” WWW.ASTRONAUTICAL.ORG PAGE 3 EXPLORER 2 NEWSLETTER OF THE AAS HISTORY COMMITTEE ¢ IN THE NEWS Woomera Rocket Range turns 60 By Kerrie Dougherty arlier this year, about 1,000 former staff and their families returned to celebrate E the 60th anniversary of the establish- ment of the Anglo-Australian Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia, at one time the busiest weapons testing and launch facili- ty in the world. Founded as a test range for the devel- opment of long range missiles, Woomera also would become the site of British, European and Australian space-related programs aimed at exploring the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere and developing satellite launch vehicles. Australia launched its first satellite, Wresat (Weapons Research Establishment Satellite), from Woomera in 1967, making it only the fourth country to independently launch its own satellite (albeit with a rocket supplied by the United States). Sadly, floundering British and Australian space ambitions saw Woomera gradually diminish in size, population and level of activity. Today, the Australian government searches to find new users for the range and uses to keep Woomera alive. For insight into the anniversary celebra- tion, please visit the online edition of the Woomera township newspaper “Gibber Gabber” at: http://www.woomera.com.au/community/ gibber_gabber/2007/20_Apr_07.pdf Kerrie Dougherty is curator of space COURTESY DEFENSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION technology at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. Woomera Rocket Range during the early 1960s. PAGE 4 WWW.ASTRONAUTICAL.ORG OCTOBER 2007 | ISSUE 4 ¢ CALL FOR PAPERS Space Travel and Culture: The International Community of Flight: From Apollo to Space Tourism A Centennial History One of the most iconic moments of the 20th century was A conference is being planned to mark the centennial the first Apollo moon landing, which has its 40th anniversary of the Wright brothers demonstration flights of 1908. The in 2009. The images of the Earth from space and of Neil conference will be in Dayton, Ohio, May 8-10, 2008, at Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon and the countless Wright State University. Conference organizers are seek- books, films and products associ- ing paper and panel propos- ated with space travel have a huge als focusing broadly on the significance in terms of popular international nature of the culture and artistic practice. history and development of Proposals for Space Travel flight, 1908-2008. and Culture: From Apollo to Possible topics include, Space Tourism (A Sociological but are not limited to, flight Review Monograph) are being research; development of sought. airlines and international The book seeks to provide transportation; important an interdisciplinary collection individuals, political and of essays on various aspects of diplomatic initiatives; avia- NASA, the moon landings and tion and the arts; internation- space travel. al cooperation; and interna- This is not a book about tional competition. cultural studies or history or Individual papers and the sociology of technology or panel proposals will be politics or management or accepted. Those submitting science fiction — yet all these an individual paper should will be involved in thinking provide a one-page abstract through the implications of of the topic and a one-page space travel for the way that curriculum vitae. Panel human beings have imagined proposals should include a themselves and the universe. NASA brief explanation of the over- Possible topics could include Astronaut Walter H. Schirra Jr., sits inside NASA’s all theme of the panel, plus the economics of space travel; Gemini VI spacecraft after the capsule was brought one-page abstracts of each alternative space programs; aboard the U.S.S.
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