Book ID: CBB001251429

The Spoken Word II: Recollections of Dryden History, beyond the Sky (2007)

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Peebles, Curtis (Editor)


National Aeronautics and Space Administration


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xii + 200 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

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.

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Description 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:


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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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Westwick, Peter J.
Launius, Roger D.
Schultz, James
Worden, Al
Wang, Zuoyue
Stalker, R. J.
Concepts
Engineers, aerospace
Aerospace industry
Biographies
Space travel; space flight
Space programs
Engineering, aeronautical
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
California (U.S.)
Canada
Silicon Valley (California)
Ukraine
Australia
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Project Apollo (NASA)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena
Dryden Flight Research Facility
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