Background The below document was obtained from the United States Air Force, under FOIA Case 2019-02596-F. It was digitized from microfilm, therefore, is slightly hard to read (but still very much legible.) It is archived here for reference. ...
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Unconventional, Contrary, and Ugly: The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, NASA History Division, 2005
Background When the United States began considering a piloted voyage to the moon, an enormous number of unknowns about strategies, techniques, and equipment existed. Some people began wondering how a landing maneuver might be performed on the ...
The Evolution of the NASA-DoD Relationship from Sputnik to the Lunar Landing, Published April 18, 1997
Background Between Sputnik’s launching in October 1957 and the lunar landing in July 1969 America sponsored five human spaceflight projects. NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo were well publicized and to varying degrees Presidents ...
Correlation Techniques for Deep Space ‘Uncorrelated Targets’, March 13, 1979
Background According to this document: The surveillance fences of SPACETRACK detect and track a large number of space objects that do not correlate with known objects in the satellite catalog. This note describes the techniques developed at ...
Center for the Advancement of Science in Space Status Reports and Memos
Background The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), a non-profit organization, is the manager of the International Space Station United States National Laboratory, a US government-funded laboratory with principal research ...
