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L5 News, May 1977
Space Settlement LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN SPACE INDUSTRIALIZATION, SATELLITE SOLAR POWER, AND SPACE HABITATS L-5 Mews May 1977 half its gross weight consisting of fuel. If there were no atmospheric oxygen, it Space letters would also need to carry that, too. Its mass-ratio would then be very much like Settlement I would like to comment on Jim that of a rocket, and a simple calculation Oberg’s questions regarding the Moon, in shows that if equipped with rocket Special Issue of the L-5 News the March L-5 News. engines, it could attain nearly enough He raised the question of Volume 2, Number 5 May, 1977 velocity for a transcontinental flight just environmental effects of the use of a by flying like an ICBM. So once again it lunar mass-driver, both on the Moon itself is not clear whether the Oberg and on the regions of space available for atmosphere would make travel by lunar Contents: use by spacecraft. aircraft all that much easier than travel by Regarding the latter, recent work has rocket. Developing Space Policy 1 made it clear that the lunar-launched Finally, Bob Farquhar of NASA- Jack Salmon mass stream will be very well-defined in Goddard has done a great deal of very Arthur Kantrowitz Proposes its trajectory characteristics, and will be fine work on lunar libration-point A Science Court 4 predicted well in advance. Thus, it need communications satellites. These would L-5 interview by Eric Drexler pose no more of a hazard to navigation provide much more reliable and efficient than any other type of space traffic. -
Jesco Von Puttkamer, 2003
-Arbeitspapier- "Ein Land ohne Visionen hat eine Jugend ohne Perspektiven und mit einer Jugend ohne Perspektiven hat ein Land keine lebensfördernde Zukunft!" Jesco von Puttkamer, 2003 Der "Jesco von Puttkamer - Förderpreis" und die "Jesco von Puttkamer - Stiftung" Konto 209981005 Commerzbank Leipzig 86040000 International Space Education Institute 1 -Arbeitspapier- Vorwort zur Person Freiherr Prof. Dr. h.c. Ing. Jesco von Puttkamer ist ein 1933 in Leipzig geborener Wissenschaftler, der mit 50 Dienstjahren ältester aktiver NASA-Mitarbeiter war. Er hinterließ nach dem Tod im Dezember 2012 als Autor zahlreiche populäre Bücher über die US-Raumfahrt, ein weltweites Kontaktnetzwerk zu Wissenschaftlern und arbeitete von Apollo über Skylab, das Space Shuttle bis zur ISS und künftigen bemannten Marsmissionen in leitender Funktion bei NASA und bis zuletzt im NASA-Hauptquartier in Washington DC. In den vergangen 10 Jahren war der Wissenschaftler, dem zahlreiche internationale Auszeichnungen überreicht wurden, Leiter des Fachbeirates des International Space Education Institutes. Dieser Bildungsverein verbindet und fördert heute auf 3 Kontinenten junge Menschen auf dem Berufsweg in die Wissenschaft. Von Puttkamer lieferte das strategische und pädagogische Konzept und knüpfte ein enges Kontaktnetzwerk zur NASA. Mit der Würdigung seines Lebenswerkes in der Nachwuchsförderung über einen Förderpreis und eine künftige Stiftung für junge Wissenschaftler möchten wir nach eingehenden Gesprächen mit NASA, seinen Kollegen und Freunden dem polulären Autor, Visionär und Wissenschaftler ein zeitloses Denkmal setzen. Vorhaben Der "Jesco von Puttkamer - Förderpreis" soll als Fond konzipiert werden mit zunächst 2 Aufgaben: 1. Anhäufung eines Stiftungstocks für die spätere "Jesco von Puttkamer - Stiftung" 2. Einwerben von Spenden zur Ausschüttung als Preisgelder im Rahmen der Würdigung technisch-wissenschaftlicher Bestleistungen von Schülern und Studenten mit internationalen Projekten, fördern von Visionskraft schrittweise Entwicklung der Stiftung 1. -
Space Resources : Social Concerns / Editors, Mary Fae Mckay, David S
Frontispiece Advanced Lunar Base In this panorama of an advanced lunar base, the main habitation modules in the background to the right are shown being covered by lunar soil for radiation protection. The modules on the far right are reactors in which lunar soil is being processed to provide oxygen. Each reactor is heated by a solar mirror. The vehicle near them is collecting liquid oxygen from the reactor complex and will transport it to the launch pad in the background, where a tanker is just lifting off. The mining pits are shown just behind the foreground figure on the left. The geologists in the foreground are looking for richer ores to mine. Artist: Dennis Davidson NASA SP-509, vol. 4 Space Resources Social Concerns Editors Mary Fae McKay, David S. McKay, and Michael B. Duke Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas 1992 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Program Washington, DC 1992 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328 ISBN 0-16-038062-6 Technical papers derived from a NASA-ASEE summer study held at the California Space Institute in 1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Space resources : social concerns / editors, Mary Fae McKay, David S. McKay, and Michael B. Duke. xii, 302 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.—(NASA SP ; 509 : vol. 4) 1. Outer space—Exploration—United States. 2. Natural resources. 3. Space industrialization—United States. I. McKay, Mary Fae. II. McKay, David S. III. Duke, Michael B. IV. United States. -
Deutsche Nationalbibliografie 2016 a 02
Deutsche Nationalbibliografie Reihe A Monografien und Periodika des Verlagsbuchhandels Wöchentliches Verzeichnis Jahrgang: 2016 A 02 Stand: 13. Januar 2016 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main) 2016 ISSN 1869-3946 urn:nbn:de:101-2015121117 2 Hinweise Die Deutsche Nationalbibliografie erfasst eingesandte Pflichtexemplare in Deutschland veröffentlichter Medienwerke, aber auch im Ausland veröffentlichte deutschsprachige Medienwerke, Übersetzungen deutschsprachiger Medienwerke in andere Sprachen und fremdsprachige Medienwerke über Deutschland im Original. Grundlage für die Anzeige ist das Gesetz über die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNBG) vom 22. Juni 2006 (BGBl. I, S. 1338). Monografien und Periodika (Zeitschriften, zeitschriftenartige Reihen und Loseblattausgaben) werden in ihren unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen (z.B. Papierausgabe, Mikroform, Diaserie, AV-Medium, elektronische Offline-Publikationen, Arbeitstransparentsammlung oder Tonträger) angezeigt. Alle verzeichneten Titel enthalten einen Link zur Anzeige im Portalkatalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek und alle vorhandenen URLs z.B. von Inhaltsverzeichnissen sind als Link hinterlegt. In Reihe A werden Medienwerke, die im Verlagsbuch- chende Menüfunktion möglich. Die Bände eines mehrbän- handel erscheinen, angezeigt. Auch außerhalb des Ver- digen Werkes werden, sofern sie eine eigene Sachgrup- lagsbuchhandels erschienene Medienwerke werden an- pe haben, innerhalb der eigenen Sachgruppe aufgeführt, gezeigt, wenn sie von gewerbsmäßigen Verlagen vertrie- ansonsten -
NASA Symbols and Flags in the US Manned Space Program
SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2007 #230 THE FLAG BULLETIN THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF VEXILLOLOGY www.flagresearchcenter.com 225 [email protected] THE FLAG BULLETIN THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF VEXILLOLOGY September-December 2007 No. 230 Volume XLVI, Nos. 5-6 FLAGS IN SPACE: NASA SYMBOLS AND FLAGS IN THE U.S. MANNED SPACE PROGRAM Anne M. Platoff 143-221 COVER PICTURES 222 INDEX 223-224 The Flag Bulletin is officially recognized by the International Federation of Vexillological Associations for the publication of scholarly articles relating to vexillology Art layout for this issue by Terri Malgieri Funding for addition of color pages and binding of this combined issue was provided by the University of California, Santa Barbara Library and by the University of California Research Grants for Librarians Program. The Flag Bulletin at the time of publication was behind schedule and therefore the references in the article to dates after December 2007 reflect events that occurred after that date but before the publication of this issue in 2010. © Copyright 2007 by the Flag Research Center; all rights reserved. Postmaster: Send address changes to THE FLAG BULLETIN, 3 Edgehill Rd., Winchester, Mass. 01890 U.S.A. THE FLAG BULLETIN (ISSN 0015-3370) is published bimonthly; the annual subscription rate is $68.00. Periodicals postage paid at Winchester. www.flagresearchcenter.com www.flagresearchcenter.com 141 [email protected] ANNE M. PLATOFF (Annie) is a librarian at the University of Cali- fornia, Santa Barbara Library. From 1989-1996 she was a contrac- tor employee at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. During this time she worked as an Information Specialist for the New Initiatives Of- fice and the Exploration Programs Office, and later as a Policy Ana- lyst for the Public Affairs Office. -
Actual Problems Актуальные Проблемы
АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК АВИАЦИИ И ВОЗДУХОПЛАВАНИЯ РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ КОСМОНАВТИКИ ИМ. К.Э.ЦИОЛКОВСКОГО СССР 7 195 ISSN 1727-6853 12.04.1961 АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ АВИАЦИОННЫХ И АЭРОКОСМИЧЕСКИХ СИСТЕМ процессы, модели, эксперимент 2(43), т.21, 2016 RUSSIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ACTUAL PROBLEMS processes, models, experiment УРНАЛ 2(43), v.21, 2016 УЧНЫЙ Ж О-АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ НА ОССИЙСК Р Казань Daytona Beach Kazan-Daytona Beach EDITORIAL BOARD S.M.Sliwa, HONORARY EDITOR;Ex-President of ERAU, USA O.A.Dushina (Assistant of Editor, translation), KNRTU-KAI, Kazan, RUSSIA EDITORS Main goals of this Journal - to inform the specialists of appropriate fields about recent state in theory and applications; about global problems, and actual directions; to promote close working contacts between scientists of various Universities and Schools; between theorists and application oriented scientists; to mathematize the methods in solving of problems, generated by engineering practice; to unite the efforts, to synthesize the methods in different areas of science and education... In Journal the articles and reviews; the discussions communications; engineering notices, the statements and solutions of problems in all areas of aviation and aerospace systems are published (including new results, methods, approaches, hypothesizes, experimental researches,...). Authors of theoretical works have to show the possible areas of applications in engineering practice. The languages of publications are RUSSIAN, ENGLISH. Edition is carried out in the co-operation with MAI - Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), with Moscow State Technical University of N.E.Bauman’s name, with Cosmonautics Federation of Russia ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF AVIATION AND AEROSPACE SYSTEMS Kazan Daytona Beach “…we value cooperation with Russia… If to be, it is necessary to be the First since in Russia it is World Sharpest Engineers,…”, V.P.Chkalov Josef Byden, Vice President, USA, (2011). -
Project Chertok
National Aeronautics and News Space Administration & NASA HISTORY PROGRAM OFFICE Notes Office of Communications Volume 29, Number 1 First Quarter 2012 From Project Chertok: the Chief The Final Rollout Historian By Bill Barry This issue of News In the fall of 2011, as we came closer to sending Rockets and People, and Notes focuses Volume IV, to the printer, we began to review our plans for the final steps on our latest book, in releasing the book to the public. Typically, our books are released Rockets and People, without much fanfare, but for important works like Exploring the Unknown Volume IV: The Moon and a few other publications, we’ve held special “rollout” events. The Race. As you will see inside, this fourth and Rockets and People set has been one of those exceptional publica- final volume of our translation of Academician tions. In March 2005, when the first volume in the set was published, Boris Chertok’s memoir has been over a NASA History Program Office held ceremonial rollout events in both decade in the making. It is a project that has Washington and Moscow. The events were designed to both publicize been near and dear to me for much longer this unusual collaboration and to honor the amazing team that had made than my time as Chief Historian. It was a real, the translation project a reality. With the decade-long “Project Chertok” personal pleasure to join the Project Chertok coming to an end, we looked carefully at our options (and our budget) team in time for the publication of the final vol- and made plans to have a single ceremonial rollout event in Moscow. -
On the Social Impact of the Apollo 8 Earthrise Photo, Or the Lack of It?1
On the social impact of the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo, or the lack of it?1 Fred Spier Senior Lecturer Big History emeritus, University of Amsterdam Summary In this article, the various forms of contemporary news reports are explored of the Apollo 8 Earthrise pictures and whole Earth images photographed by the astronauts. Already during this flight to the Moon, that took place at the end of December of 1968, remarkable differences in perceptions, emotions, and interpretations emerged between the United States and Western Europe and, more likely than not, the rest of the world as well, con- cerning the Earth and humanity’s place on it. Furthermore, it appears that within both continents a considerable portion of the population was hardly affected by these pictures, if at all. These differences in perceptions have evolved over the past fifty years, while many of them continue to exist today. All of this will be examined in some detail with emphasis on what happened during and right after the flight of Apollo 8. Correspondence | Fred Spier, [email protected] Citation | Spier, F. (2019) On the social impact of the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo, or the lack of it? Journal of Big History, III(3); 157 - 189. DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i3.3390 ntroduction IOn December 24, 2018, it was exactly fifty years The Apollo 8 photos of Earth from lunar orbit were ago that the astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission took the not the first such pictures. The unmanned US Lunar first pictures of Earth from lunar orbit. -
BR-ONLINE | Das Online-Angebot Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Sendung vom 9.11.2012, 21.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. Jesco von Puttkamer Raumfahrt-Experte im Gespräch mit Georg Scheller Scheller: Herzlich willkommen, liebe Zuschauer, zu einem neuen alpha-Forum. Unser Gast ist heute Jesco Freiherr von Puttkamer. Herr von Puttkamer, Sie waren 50 Jahre Ihres Berufslebens bei der NASA, Sie waren beim Apollo-Mondprogramm mit dabei, Sie waren beim Space-Shuttle- Programm dabei, bei der Internationalen Raumstation (ISS) usw. Was machen Sie heute als Rentner? Spazieren gehen? Puttkamer: Nein, ich bin immer noch bei der NASA, ich bin immer noch fest angestellt in sehr verantwortungsvoller Position. Bei uns schätzt man Erfahrungen: Je länger man dabei ist, je älter man wird, desto mehr Erfahrungen hat man. Und man erwartet bei der NASA, dass ich als Mentor diese Erfahrungen auch weitergebe an junge Leute, dass ich versuche, junge Ingenieure zu begeistern. Wir sprechen ja heute von einem Mars-Programm, ich war beim Mond-Programm dabei und da kommen die jungen Ingenieure, die doch so ein bisschen einen Bammel haben vor diesem Riesenprojekt Mars, und fragen mich: "Wie habt ihr das damals nur gemacht?" Da muss ich mich dann mit denen zusammensetzen und ihnen erklären, wie das damals gewesen ist. Scheller: Wie das damals gemacht wurde, haben Sie in mittlerweile 13 Sachbüchern niedergeschrieben, hauptsächlich zum Thema "Apollo", aber auch der Mars ist ein ganz großes Thema für Sie. Angefangen hat alles freilich ganz anders, nämlich mit Sciencefiction. Ich habe hier ein Buch aus dem Jahr 1957 mitgebracht, es stammt von Ihnen und trägt den Titel "Der schlafende Gott." Es geht darin um eine Expedition der Tellus und um 1000 Menschen und einen Mutanten in einem fremden Universum. -
By Jesco Von Puttkamer; the First, "Extraterrestrial Life: Where Is Everybody?", Appeared in the Summer 1979 (Vol
North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO) Cosmic Search: Issue 4 (Volume 1 Number 4; Fall (Oct., Nov., Dec.) 1979) [Article in magazine started on page 30] Quest Beyond the Stars: Are We Alone? By: Jesco von Puttkamer This article is the second of two articles by Jesco von Puttkamer; the first, "Extraterrestrial Life: Where Is Everybody?", appeared in the Summer 1979 (vol. 1, no. 3) COSMIC SEARCH. His biographical sketch accompanied that article. This issue's article appeared earlier in "Future" magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author, Jesco von Puttkamer, Copyright © 1979. "It is both timely and feasible to begin a serious search for extraterrestrial intelligence." This quotation from a recently released NASA report is one of the major conclusions of a feasibility study on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), supported by a committee of distinguished scientists headed by Philip Morrison, a noted physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The report proposes a seven-year program of progressive radio search for other civilizations in the universe based on present-day detection equipment. If there are radio signals coming toward our solar system from intelligent and communicative creatures in space, sooner or later a program like SETI should detect them. The dream of communicating with species other than humans is one of the oldest of mankind. From the childhood enchantment of Dr. Doolittle to today's wondrous explorations into communication with primates and dolphins, and to the speculations and fantasies of science fiction, in which the notion of contact with extraterrestrial intelligences is solidly (and, lately, lucratively) entrenched, humans have always found great excitement and, yes! hope in the idea of exchanging knowledge with others, be it as teacher of less developed or student of more advanced species. -
Origins of 21St Century Space Travel
O RIGINS of ORIGINS of 21st-Century Space Travel ASNER A History of NASA’s Decadal Planning Team and the Vision for & GARBER Space Exploration, 1999–2004 Glen R. Asner Stephen J. Garber ORIGINS of 21st-Century Space Travel A History of NASA’s Decadal Planning Team and the Vision for Space Exploration, 1999–2004 The Columbia Space Shuttle accident on 1 February 2003 presented the George W. Bush administration with difficult choices. Could NASA safely resume Shuttle flights to the International Space Station? If so, for how long? With two highly visible Shuttle trag- edies and only three operational vehicles remaining, administration officials concluded on the day of the accident that major decisions about the space pro- gram could be delayed no longer. NASA had been supporting studies and honing plans for several years in preparation for an opportu- nity to propose a new mission for the space program. As early as April 1999, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin had established the Decadal Planning Team (DPT) to provide a forum for future Agency leaders to begin considering goals more ambitious than send- ing humans on missions to near-Earth destinations and robotic spacecraft to far-off destinations, with no relation between the two. Goldin charged DPT with devising a long-term strategy that would inte- grate the entire range of the Agency’s capabilities, in science and engineering, robotic and human space- flight, to reach destinations beyond low-Earth orbit. When the Bush administration initiated inter- agency discussions in 2003 to consider a new spaceflight strategy, NASA was prepared with tech- nical and policy options, as well as a team of individ- uals who had spent years preparing for the moment. -
NASA) FOIA Case Logs, 2012-2015
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