Background This Hubble Space Telescope image represents the largest, most comprehensive “history book” of galaxies in the universe. The image, a combination of nearly 7,500 separate Hubble exposures, represents 16 years’ ...
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Exploring the Unknown
Background This is a projected eight volume series of selected documents in the history of the U.S. civil space program, published by NASA. Document Archive Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space ...
Space Handbook: Astronautics and its Application, Circa 1959
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. ...
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 ...
