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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Into the Unknown Together. The DOD, NASA, and Early Spaceflight, September 2005
Background Between the 4 October 1957 launching by the Soviet Union of the first artificial earth satellite, Sputnik I, and the successful American landing and return from the moon in July 1969, the United States sponsored five human-spaceflight ...
