Article ID: CBB000052532

The Gemini paraglider: A failure of scheduled innovation, 1961-64 (1992)

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Description On the attempt by NASA to develop the paraglider as a practical landing system for the Gemini spacecraft.


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Authors & Contributors
Launius, Roger D.
Zimmermann, Robert
Wolfe, Tom
Vaughan, Diane
Swenson, Loyd S., Jr.
Smith, Robert William
Journals
Technology and Culture
Social Studies of Science
Science, Technology and Human Values
Public Historian
Historian: Journal of History
Publishers
Praeger
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
University of Chicago Press
University of Alabama Press
Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division
Concepts
Astronautics
Space travel; space flight
Historiography
Technology
People
Armstrong, Neil
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John C. Stennis Space Center
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
Hubble Space Telescope
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