Download or read book An Air Force History of Space Activities written by Office of Office of Air Force History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the efforts of the United States from 1945 to September 1959 to wrestle with the unknown ramifications of space, this history includes both the civilian and military activities. An Air Force History of Space Activities presents a more detailed treatment of information published in 1960 under the title of Threshold of Space, 1945-1959. Other monographs on this subject include The Air Force in Space, 1959-1960, and (in draft) a sequel for fiscal year 1961. The author of this history begins with the work of the early pioneers in rocketry, the first satellite feasibility studies by the military, and the relationship of the ballistic missile to the space vehicle. He reviews the Russian and U.S. space programs between 1945 and 1957, during which efforts were made to create space law and the United States chose to pursue a space-for-peace policy. The conservatism of policy makers raised obstacles, but there were space projects, some of them under the Air Force. After the shock of Sputnik I, the reshaping of policy resulted in the establishment of ARPA in the Department of Defense and NASA as the civilian space agency. The author tells of ARPA's supremacy over the military services in 1958; its loss of control to NASA in October 1958; NASA's activities from then until July 1959; the position of the Air Force after losing out to both ARPA and NASA; and the Air Force's determination to cooperate with NASA, through research, development, and use of its facilities. Within the DOD in 1959, authority for space research and development was transferred from ARPA to DDR&E, interservice tension mounted, the Air Force struggled to regain lost projects and objected to Navy's appeal for a military space command, and the tide turned for the Air Force when the Secretary of Defense decided in September to give to it the responsibility for the development and launching of all DOD space boosters and for management of Sentry, Midas, and Discoverer.
Download or read book An Air Force History of Space Activities 1945 1959 written by Lee Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Air Force History of Space Activities 1959 1960 written by Max Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U S Air Force in Space 1945 to the Twenty First Century Proceedings written by Air Force Historical Foundation. Symposium and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 1998-09-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers presented at the Air Force Historical Foundation Symposium, held at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on September 21-22, 1995. Topics addressed are: Pt. 1, The Formative Years, 1945-1961; Pt. 2, Mission Development and Exploitation Since 1961; and Pt. 3, Military Space Today and Tomorrow. Includes notes, abbreviations & acronyms, an index, and photographs.
Download or read book Orbital Futures written by David N. Spires and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U S Air Force in space 1945 to the Twenty First Century Proceedings Air Force Historical Foundation Symposium written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers presented at the Air Force Historical Foundation Symposium, held at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on September 21-22, 1995. Topics addressed are: Pt. 1, The Formative Years, 1945-1961; Pt. 2, Mission Development and Exploitation Since 1961; and Pt. 3, Military Space Today and Tomorrow. Includes notes, abbreviations & acronyms, an index, and photographs.
Download or read book Beyond Horizons written by David N. Spires and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whither Space Power written by Simon P. Worden and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of space power pervades almost every sphere and level of human existence, from politics to military affairs to commercial activities to cultural mind-sets. Yet there is little to be found today in the way of coherent space power doctrine and strategy, particularly in national security circles. To what extent do our national interests rely on space? How shall we defend our interests in space and how shall we deny our adversaries the benefits of space power in time of conflict? How can we control and exploit the space environment? How can we effectively wield space power against the full spectrum of threats -- from the lone terrorist to global peer competitors? What should be our long-range strategy and objectives if our goal is to achieve and maintain long-term space superiority? The purpose of this paper is two fold: first, to illuminate the historical and ever-increasing importance of space in modern society; and second, to prescribe, in view of this importance, the foundations of a strategy for achieving lasting space superiority and ensuring national and world security.
Download or read book High Frontier written by Curtis Peebles and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Horizons written by Air University Press and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership is a study of the United States Air Force in space. Of all the military services, the Air Force has been preeminently involved for the past fifty years in initiating, developing, and applying the technology of space-based systems in support of the nation's national security. Yet there has been no single-volume overview of the Air Force space story to serve as an introduction and guide for interested readers. In November 1992, a high-level Air Force Blue Ribbon Panel on Space, chaired by then Lieutenant General Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., commander of Air Force Space Command, concluded there was a specific need to better educate people, both in the service and among the general populace, about the history of Air Force space activities. Beyond Horizons has been written to meet this need. Beyond Horizons begins with a review of pre-World War II rocketry developments and the forging of the important partnership between the Army Air Forces' Chapter 1 focuses on space and missile efforts prior to the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellites in late 1957. Beginning with analysis of the Rand satellite report, the chapter examines the policy, organizational, and funding constraints, based largely on inter- and intra-service rivalries, that Air Force missile and space advocates had to overcome during the late 1940s and early 1950s in order to establish an effective enterprise. In a sense, the Air Force entered the space age on the coattails of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) development and President Dwight D. Eisenhower's determination to protect the nation from surprise attack. Chapter 2 focuses on the important policy and organizational steps taken after Sputnik which helped the Air Force achieve leadership of the nation's military space activities. Initial Air Force hopes of leading a national space program ended with the establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Chapter 3 describes Air Force efforts to achieve a dominant role in space through its support of NASA and its attempts to acquire a military manned spaceflight mission and approval for development of space-based weapons. Despite the seemingly bleak outlook for an Air Force space future by the early 1970s, however, two developments would reinvigorate the Air Force space program-the success of instrumented satellites and the Space Shuttle. Chapter 4 examines the Air Force's leadership role in the emergence of artificial earth satellites during the 1960s for communications, navigation, meteorology, and surveillance and reconnaissance. Chapter 5 discusses the complex interplay of space policy, organizational, and operational issues that culminated in the formation of the Air Force's Space Command. Chapter 6 describes the efforts of Air Force Space Command in the 1980s to consolidate its control over space systems and move the Air force from an "operational agenda" for space to the creation of an "operational mindset" for space. Chapter 7 focuses on the role of space in the Persian Gulf War in early 1991. This conflict represented the coming of age of military space by demonstrating the value of an "operational mindset" for space. Contents: CHAPTER 1 - Before Sputnik: The Air Force Enters the Space Age, 1945-1957 * CHAPTER 2 - From Eisenhower to Kennedy: The National Space Program and the Air Force's Quest for the Military Space Mission, 1958-1961 * CHAPTER 3 - The Air Force in the Era of Apollo: A Dream Unfulfilled * CHAPTER 4 - From the Ground Up: The Path from Experiment to Operations * CHAPTER 5 - Organizing for Space: The Air Force Commits to Space and an Operational Space Command * CHAPTER 6 - From Star Wars to the Gulf War: The Air Force Moves to Create an Operational Capability for Space * CHAPTER 7 - Coming of Age: Operation Desert Storm and Normalizing Military Space Operations * CHAPTER 8 - An Air Force Vision for the Military Space Mission
Download or read book High Frontier written by Curtis Peebles and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States military space program began at the end of World War II when a few people realized that space flight was now achievable and could be employed to military advantage. Science and technology in the form of advanced radar, jet propulsion, ballistic rockets such as the V-2, and nuclear energy had dramatically altered the nature of war. Army Air Forces Commanding General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold wrote in November 1945 that a space ship "is all but practicable today" and could be built "within the foreseeable future." The following month the Air Force Scientific Advisory Group concluded that long-range rockets were technically feasible and that satellites were a "definite possibility." The U.S. Navy also expressed interest in space flight. In November 1945 the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics produced a satellite report, and, on March 7, 1946 proposed an interservice space program. The idea was presented to the joint Army-Navy Aeronautical Board on April 9. Major General Curtis E. LeMay, the Director of Research and Development for the Army Air Forces, however, viewed space operations as an exclusive Air Force domain, and he ordered an independent study.
Download or read book The Air Force in Space 1959 1960 written by Office of Air Force History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in a series or historical studies on the role or the Air Force in space activities, prepared by the USAF Historical Division Liaison Office. The first study, The Threshold of Space 1945-1959, described the evolution of the national space program with emphasis on the responsibilities or the Air Force. For the present study, the author adopted a broad approach that permitted timely coverage or USAF space policies, plans, and programs within the context or both the national space program and USAF strategic objectives. This office will also prepare comprehensive studies on particular portions or the space program. The Air Force in Space, 1959-1960 is part of the History of Headquarters USAF, Fiscal Year 1960. This document is classified SECRET to conform with the classification assigned to sources of information used herein.
Download or read book United States Aeronautics and Space Activities written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Space Flight written by Eugene Morlock Emme and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1965 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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