Article ID: CBB000052532

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

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Hacker, Barton C. (Author)


Social Studies of Science
Volume: 22
Pages: 387-406
Publication date: 1992


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
Becker, John V.
Breuer, William B.
Bromberg, Joan Lisa
Burrows, William E.
Byers, Bruce K.
Elder, Donald C.
Journals
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
Science, Technology, and the Humanities
Publishers
NASA History Office
University of Pennsylvania
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Astronautical Society
Atheneum
DiscoveryBooks
Concepts
Astronautics
Technology
Space programs
Space travel; space flight
Technology and society
Counterculture
People
Armstrong, Neil
Time Periods
20th century
Places
United States
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Project Apollo (NASA)
John C. Stennis Space Center
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