Aug 10, 2018 - NASA was established on October 1, 1958, just one year after Sputnik, from three. And the Army could provide the requisite launch vehicles. The range's other end at Klyuchi. It took the Bureau of the Budget a mere 12 days to put some. The Air Force continued with another military space pro. Target America: The Soviet Union and the Strategic Arms Race. I delve into the origins of the Soviet long-range ballistic missile pro- gram and the. 12 Many of the 1 50 people who responded met several times in early 1 93 1. For example, German guidance experts at Gorodomlya Island built a simulator for missile.

This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures for the U. Space program. Deer hunting usa arcade manual. Then they boldly built hardware and facilities to accomplish those missions. The group existed only three years before they were transferred to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, in 1962, but their organization left a large mark on what would follow.Von Ehrenfried's personal experience with the STG at Langley uniquely positions him to describe the way the group was structured and how it reacted to the new demands of a post-Sputnik era.

He artfully analyzes how the growing space program was managed and what techniques enabled it to develop so quickly from an operations perspective. The result is a fascinating window into history, amply backed up by first person documentation and interviews.

Full text of ' - 2 - 8 / >/7 ^ /^/ff & 6 / Z2 - Challenge to Apollo The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 • • NASA SP-2000-4408 Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 by Asif A. Siddiqi National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA History Division Office of Policy and Plans Washington, DC 2000 Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Siddiqi. Asif A., 1 966- Challenge to Apollo: the Soviet Union and the space race. 1945-1974 / by Asif A.

— (The NASA history series) NASA SP; 2000-4408 Includes bibliographical references and index. Astronautics — Soviet Union — History. Space race — History. NASA SP: 4408. TL789.8S65 S47 2000 629.40947— dc2 1 00-01047 To my mother and my father, who taught me the ualue of knowledge History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

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