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Book Conference on Space  Science  and Urban Life

Download or read book Conference on Space Science and Urban Life written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reflections on Space

Download or read book Reflections on Space written by United States Air Force Academy and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: The challenge of space exploration Space and its impact on the United States The United States space effort: The cost and wisdom of the space race The space effort of the U.S.S.R. The military application of space International law and cooperation in outer space (Author).

Book Aerospace Bibliography

Download or read book Aerospace Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NASA EP

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book NASA EP written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cities of Knowledge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret O'Mara
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2015-02-17
  • ISBN : 140086688X
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Cities of Knowledge written by Margaret O'Mara and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few have succeeded. This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, capital, and institutions has been so difficult to replicate. Margaret O'Mara shows that high-tech regions are not simply accidental market creations but "cities of knowledge"--planned communities of scientific production that were shaped and subsidized by the original venture capitalist, the Cold War defense complex. At the heart of the story is the American research university, an institution enriched by Cold War spending and actively engaged in economic development. The story of the city of knowledge broadens our understanding of postwar urban history and of the relationship between civil society and the state in late twentieth-century America. It leads us to further redefine the American suburb as being much more than formless "sprawl," and shows how it is in fact the ultimate post-industrial city. Understanding this history and geography is essential to planning for the future of the high-tech economy, and this book is must reading for anyone interested in building the next Silicon Valley.

Book Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library  University of California  Berkeley

Download or read book Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library University of California Berkeley written by University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

Download or read book Apollo in the Age of Aquarius written by Neil M. Maher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award A Bloomberg View Must-Read Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year “A substance-rich, original on every page exploration of how the space program interacted with the environmental movement, and also with the peace and ‘Whole Earth’ movements of the 1960s.” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock. This lively and original account of the space race makes the case that the conjunction of these two era-defining events was not entirely coincidental. With its lavishly funded mandate to put a man on the moon, the Apollo mission promised to reinvigorate a country that had lost its way. But a new breed of activists denounced it as a colossal waste of resources needed to solve pressing problems at home. Neil Maher reveals that there were actually unexpected synergies between the space program and the budding environmental, feminist and civil rights movements as photos from space galvanized environmentalists, women challenged the astronauts’ boys club and NASA’s engineers helped tackle inner city housing problems. Against a backdrop of Saturn V moonshots and Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius brings the cultural politics of the space race back down to planet Earth. “As a child in the 1960s, I was aware of both NASA’s achievements and social unrest, but unaware of the clashes between those two historical currents. Maher [captures] the maelstrom of the 1960s and 1970s as it collided with NASA’s program for human spaceflight.” —George Zamka, Colonel USMC (Ret.) and former NASA astronaut “NASA and Woodstock may now seem polarized, but this illuminating, original chronicle...traces multiple crosscurrents between them.” —Nature

Book Scales of the Earth

Download or read book Scales of the Earth written by El Hadi Jazairy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the impact of the new "geography from above" made possible by advances in satellite imagery, contributors discuss how satellite imagery reframes contemporary debates on design, agency, and territory.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1442 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Semiannual Report to the Congress

Download or read book Semiannual Report to the Congress written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report to the Congress

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  • Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book Report to the Congress written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spacesuit

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  • Author : Nicholas De Monchaux
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2011-03-18
  • ISBN : 026201520X
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Spacesuit written by Nicholas De Monchaux and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of that spacesuit. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex"—a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics. Playtex's spacesuit went up against hard armor-like spacesuits designed by military contractors and favored by NASA's engineers. It was only when those attempts failed—when traditional engineering firms could not integrate the body into mission requirements—that Playtex, with its intimate expertise, got the job. In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. He touches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior's New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK's carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA's Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. The twenty-one-layer spacesuit, de Monchaux argues, offers an object lesson. It tells us about redundancy and interdependence and about the distinctions between natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us to know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario.

Book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

Download or read book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NASA Special Publications Currently Available

Download or read book NASA Special Publications Currently Available written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: