Advanced Propulsion Study Background This study was tasked with the purpose of conducting a thorough literature and program search to carry out and document a technical assessment of the latest concepts in science and engineering that show ...
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A History of Soviet Aviation and Cosmonautics, January 1965
This publication is a translation of Aviation and Cosmonautics (Aviatsiya I Kosmonavtika) formerly Herald of the Air Fleet, a monthly journal of the Soviet Army Air Force published by the Military Publishing House, Ministry of Defense, USSR. ...
Project UPWARD – Lunar Mapping Mission During Apollo Missions
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) describes the Project UPWARD as the following: In August 2014, the NRO released declassified Project UPWARD records from their archives. Project UPWARD was a joint project that began in 1964, when the NRO ...
Apollo Missions
Background The Apollo program was a human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961-1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced a goal of landing a man on the moon ...
Space Defense / Militarization of Space
Background The U.S. Military and government has spent a lot of time and money while considering the militarization of space. The following documents offer a glimpse into that past. Document Archive ABMA Presentation to NASA, November 2006 [ 155 ...