Peebles, Curtis (Editor)
Since the founding of the Dryden Flight Research Center History Office in 1996, its staff has conducted about a hundred interviews with retired employees. These recollections represent a unique resource in understanding the development of aerospace technology in the second half of the 20th century. Their personal experiences, insights, and opinions allow readers to gain an appreciation for what it was actually like to have been involved with some of the milestone events in aerospace history. A selection of interviews has been edited and assembled into this monograph to enable a wider audience to share in this adventure. This collection of interviews is the second in a continuing series on the history of the Dryden Flight Research Center. The new volume covers the period between the establishment of NASA in 1958 and the beginning of space shuttle flights in the early 1980s. This time frame encompasses the flights of the X-15, the U.S./Soviet race to the moon, the evolution of the lifting-body concept, and the initial shuttle flights. They are told by the people who participated in these landmark activities, in their own words.
...MoreDescription The volume consists of interviews of past employees of the Dryden Flight Research Center and illuminates a history of the development of aerospace technology. Contents:
Review Hallion, Richard P. (2012) Review of "The Spoken Word II: Recollections of Dryden History, beyond the Sky". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 619-620).
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Schultz, James;
(2003)
Crafting flight: Aircraft pioneers and the contributions of the men and women of NASA Langley Research Center
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Westwick, Peter J.;
(2012)
Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California
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Wang, Zuoyue;
(2012)
Engineering a New Space: Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in Southern California
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Bugos, Glenn E.;
(2012)
Aerospace in the Rest of California: The View from Silicon Valley
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Essay Review
Launius, Roger D.;
(2014)
Realizing the New Aerospace History
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Brown, Alexander F. G.;
(2009)
Accidents, Engineering and History at NASA: 1967--2003
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Launius, Roger D.;
(2008)
Leaders, visionaries, and designers
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Westwick, Peter J.;
(2007)
Reengineering Engineers: Management Philosophies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1990s
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Grachev, Sergey;
(2012)
The Little-Known Facts of the Creative Activities and Life of Chief Designer of Aero-Space Systems Gleb Yevgenievich Lozino-Lozinsky
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Biddle, Wayne;
(2002)
Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare: The Story of the American Aerospace Industry
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Stalker, R. J.;
Meyer, E. Nicole;
(2010)
Richard Ernst Meyer 1919--2008
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Bourgeois-Doyle, Richard I.;
(2008)
Her Daughter the Engineer: The Life of Elsie Gregory Macgill
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Farquhar, Robert W.;
(2011)
Fifty Years on the Space Frontier: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More
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Stafford, Thomas P.;
Cassutt, Michael;
(2002)
We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race
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Ansari, Anousheh;
Hickam, Homer H.;
(2010)
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer
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Worden, Al;
French, Francis;
(2011)
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey
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Eckert, Michael;
(2008)
Theory from Wind Tunnels: Empirical Roots of Twentieth-Century Fluid Dynamics
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Hallion, Richard P.;
(1984)
On the frontier: Flight research at Dryden, 1946-1981
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Gerovitch, Slava;
(2014)
Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space
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Chris Gainor;
(2001)
Arrows to the Moon: Avro's Engineers and the Space Race
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