Background The Commission was directed to assess the organization and management of space activities in support of U.S. national security. Members of the Commission were appointed by the chairmen and ranking minority members of the House and ...
Posts by Category: Space
From the Sea to the Stars: A Chronicle of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Space-related Activities, 1944-2009 (2010 Edition)
Background The importance of space and space-related activities to support global military operations has expanded significantly over the past 50 years–and is still evolving. Today, the U.S. Navy is perhaps the most reliant of all the ...
Advanced Propulsion Options For The Mars Cargo Mission, September 1989
Background This report summarizes the results of an evaluation of a variety of advanced low thrust propulsion options for the cargo-delivery portion of a split-mission piloted Mars exploration scenario. The propulsion options considered were ...
Alternative Propulsion Energy Sources, Forward Unlimited Contracted Research, 1983
Background The task was to survey the entire field of advanced propulsion to uncover and carry out a technical assessment of any concept that showed promise of leading to a major advance in available energy sources for space power and ...
History of Research in Subgravity and Zero-G at the Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico 1948-1958
Background The foreword offers a very interesting perspective into the pre-Apollo era, where weightlessness, had not yet been achieved: “Weightlessness, the weird condition of subgravity which man has never before experience and survived ...
