‎Administration‎

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎Dawn Launch; Mission to Vesta and Ceres Press Kit/September 2007‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2007. Xerox-style reproduction. Assume only a few copies were made for media representatives. Stapled at upper left corner. Very good. Front cover 2 22 pages. Illustrations. Contents include Media Services Information; Quick Facts; Why Dawn; Mission Overview; Spacecraft; Science Objectives and Program/Project Management. Dawn is a now retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. In the fulfillment of that mission—the ninth in NASA's Discovery Program—Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 16 2011 and completed a 14-month survey mission before leaving for Ceres in late 2012. It entered orbit around Ceres on March 6 2015. In 2017 NASA announced that the planned nine-year mission would be extended until the probe's hydrazine fuel supply was depleted. On November 1 2018 NASA announced that Dawn had depleted its hydrazine and the mission was ended. The derelict probe remains in a stable orbit around Ceres. Dawn is the first spacecraft to have orbited two extraterrestrial bodies the first spacecraft to have visited either Vesta or Ceres and the first to have orbited a dwarf planet. The Dawn mission was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with spacecraft components contributed by European partners from Italy Germany France and the Netherlands. It was the first NASA exploratory mission to use ion propulsion which enabled it to enter and leave the orbit of two celestial bodies. Previous multi-target missions using rockets powered by chemical engine such as the Voyager program were restricted to flybys. The Dawn mission was designed to study two large bodies in the asteroid belt in order to answer questions about the formation of the Solar System as well as to test the performance of its ion thrusters in deep space. Ceres and Vesta were chosen as two contrasting protoplanets the first one apparently "wet" i.e. icy and cold and the other "dry" i.e. rocky whose accretion was terminated by the formation of Jupiter. The two bodies provide a bridge in scientific understanding between the formation of rocky planets and the icy bodies of the Solar System and under what conditions a rocky planet can hold water. The International Astronomical Union IAU adopted a new definition of planet on August 24 2006 which introduced the term "dwarf planet" for ellipsoidal worlds that were too small to qualify for planetary status by "clearing their orbital neighborhood" of other orbiting matter. Dawn is the first mission to study a dwarf planet arriving at Ceres a few months before the arrival of the New Horizons probe at Pluto in July 2015. The spacecraft was placed in an uncontrolled but relatively stable orbit around Ceres where it ran out of hydrazine propellant by October 31 2018 and where it will remain as a "monument" for at least 20 years. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

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‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO: Leading NASA's Way Back to the Moon; Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite LCROSS: NASA's Mission to Search for Water on the Moon Press Kit/June 2009 NP-2009-05-88-MSFC‎

‎George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville A.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration George C. Marshall Space Flight Center 2009. Xerox-style reproduction. Assume only a few copies were made for medial representatives. Stapled at upper left corner. Good. Front cover i 1 36 2 pages. Illustrations. Three-hole punched. The top corner of some of the some of the back pages are bent/creased. Contents include Contacts; Media Services Information; LRO/LCROSS Executive Summary; Mission Quick Facts; LRO Quick Facts; LCROSS Quick Facts; Launch Vehicles Mated with LRO/LCROSS; LRO/LCROSS Mission Trajectory; Why the Moon; Historical Explorations of the Moon; LRO Mission Overview; LRO Mission at a Glance; LRO Instruments; LRO Across the Country; LRO Products and Benefits: LRO Spacecraft With Instruments; Treasure Hunting on the Moon: LRO and the Search for Water; Robot Scout: Fly Me Safely to the Moon; LCROSS Mission Overview; LCROSS Mission at a Glance; The Search for Water on the Moon; LCROSS Science Instruments; LCROSS Spacecraft; LCROSS Observation Campaign; Future NASA Lunar Missions; and Program/Project Oversight. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO have been described as essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions to the Moon. Its detailed mapping program is identifying safe landing sites locating potential resources on the Moon characterizing the radiation environment and demonstrating new technologies. Launched on June 18 2009 in conjunction with the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite LCROSS as the vanguard of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program LRO was the first United States mission to the Moon in over ten years. LRO and LCROSS were launched as part of the United States's Vision for Space Exploration program. The probe has made a 3-D map of the Moon's surface at 100-meter resolution and 98.2% coverage excluding polar areas in deep shadow including 0.5-meter resolution images of Apollo landing sites. The first images from LRO were published on July 2 2009 showing a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium Sea of Clouds. The total cost of the mission is reported as US$583 million of which $504 million pertains to the main LRO probe and $79 million to the LCROSS satellite. As of 2019 LRO has enough fuel to continue operations for at least seven more years and NASA expects to continue utilizing LRO's reconnaissance capabilities to identify sites for lunar landers well into the 2020s. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite LCROSS was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA. The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of determining the nature of hydrogen detected at the polar regions of the Moon. Launched immediately after discovery of lunar water by Chandrayaan-1 the main LCROSS mission objective was to further explore the presence of water in the form of ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. It was successful in confirming water in the southern lunar crater Cabeus. It was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO on June 18 2009 as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years. LCROSS was designed to collect and relay data from the impact and debris plume resulting from the launch vehicle's spent Centaur upper stage and data-collecting Shepherding Spacecraft striking the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon. Centaur had nominal impact mass of 5081 lb and an impact velocity of about 5600 mph releasing the kinetic energy equivalent of detonating approximately 2 tons of TNT. LCROSS suffered a malfunction on August 22 depleting half of its fuel and leaving very little fuel margin in the spacecraft. Centaur impacted successfully on October 9 2009 at 11:31 UTC. The Shepherding Spacecraft descended through Centaur's ejectate plume collected and relayed data impacting six minutes later at 11:37 UTC. Contrary to media reports at the time neither the impact nor its dust cloud could be seen from Earth using the naked eye or telescopes. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86122

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center‎

‎Space Shuttle Mission Chronology 2005-2006; Volume 3 IS-2007-03-005-KSC Information Summary‎

‎Kennedy Space Center FL: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kennedy Space Center 2007. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11 inches. 8 pages. Illustrations some in color. This includes information on STS-114 STS-121 STS-115 and STS-116 the 17th 18th 19th and 20th Space Station flights The write-ups include mission highlights EVAs Launch and Landing. A latter version of Volume 3 had 12 pages and included two more missions into 2007. This variant is now quite scarce having been superseded. The International Space Station ISS is the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit. The project involves five space agencies: the United States' NASA Russia's Roscosmos Japan's JAXA Europe's ESA and Canada's CSA. The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements. The station serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which scientific research is conducted in astrobiology astronomy meteorology physics and other fields. The ISS is suited for testing the spacecraft systems and equipment required for possible future long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Its official program name was Space Transportation System STS taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. Operational missions launched numerous satellites conducted science experiments in orbit and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station ISS. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981 leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. From 1981 to 2011 a total of 135 missions were flown all launched from Kennedy Space Center KSC in Florida. During that time period the fleet logged 1322 days 19 hours 21 minutes and 23 seconds of flight time. The longest orbital flight of the Shuttle was STS-80 at 17 days 15 hours while the shortest flight was STS-51-L at one minute 13 seconds when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart during launch. The cold morning shrunk an O-Ring on the right Solid Rocket Booster causing the external fuel tank to explode. The shuttles docked with Russian space station Mir nine times and visited the ISS thirty-seven times. The highest altitude apogee achieved by the shuttle was 386 milrd when deploying the Hubble Space Telescope. The program flew a total of 355 people representing 16 countries and with 852 total shuttle fliers. The Kennedy Space Center served as the landing site for 78 missions while 54 missions landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California and one mission landed at White Sands New Mexico. The first orbiter built Enterprise was used for atmospheric flight tests ALT but future plans to upgrade it to orbital capability were ultimately canceled. Four fully operational orbiters were initially built: Columbia Challenger Discovery and Atlantis. Challenger and Columbia were destroyed in mission accidents in 1986 and 2003 respectively killing a total of fourteen astronauts. A fifth operational orbiter Endeavour was built in 1991 to replace Challenger. The Space Shuttle was retired from service upon the conclusion of STS-135 by Atlantis on 21 July 2011. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Kennedy Space Center paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86117

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎STS-135: The Final Mission; Press Kit July 2011‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2011. Xerox-style reproduction presumably one of only a few press kits produced. Stapled at upper left corner. Very good. ii 164 pages plus covers. This also has the logo of the United Space Alliance on the front cover. STS-135 ISS assembly flight ULF7 was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission which was not flown. STS-135 launched on July 8 2011 and landed on July 21 2011 following a one-day mission extension. The four-person crew was the smallest of any shuttle mission since STS-6 in April 1983. The mission's primary cargo was the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module MPLM Raffaello and a Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier LMC which were delivered to the International Space Station ISS. The flight of Raffaello marked the only time that Atlantis carried an MPLM. This press kit covers the Space Shuttle History; STS-135 Mission Timeline Profile and Objectives; Mission Personnel; STS-135 Atlantis Crew; Payload Overview; Rendezvous and Docking; Spacewalks; STS-135 Experiments; Shuttle Reference Data; Launch & Landing; Acronyms & Abbreviations; Media Assistance; Public Affairs Contacts; and The Future. Although the mission was authorized it initially had no appropriation in the NASA budget raising questions about whether the mission would fly. On January 20 2011 program managers changed STS-335 to STS-135 on the flight manifest. This allowed for training and other mission specific preparations. On February 13 2011 program managers told their workforce that STS-135 would fly regardless of the funding situation via a continuing resolution. Until this point there had been no official references to the STS-135 mission in NASA documentation for the general public. During an address at the Marshall Space Flight Center on November 16 2010 NASA administrator Charles Bolden said that the agency needed to fly STS-135 to the station in 2011 due to possible delays in the development of commercial rockets and spacecraft designed to transport cargo to the ISS. "We are hoping to fly a third shuttle mission in addition to STS-133 and STS-134 in June 2011 what everybody calls the launch-on-need mission. and that's really needed to buy down the risk for the development time for commercial cargo" Bolden said. The mission was included in NASA's 2011 authorization which was signed into law on October 11 2010 but funding remained dependent on a subsequent appropriations bill. United Space Alliance signed a contract extension for the mission along with STS-134; the contract contained six one-month options with NASA in order to support continuing operations. The federal budget approved in April 2011 called for US$5.5 billion for NASA's space operations division including the shuttle and space station programs. According to NASA the budget running through September 30 2011 ended all concerns about funding the STS-135 mission. On July 21 2011 NASA hosted an employee appreciation event outside OPF-2 with Atlantis parked. Cheryl Hurst the director of education and external relations at KSC spoke first and invited Susan Lambert to lead the crowd with the American national anthem. A pledge of allegiance followed from KSC children and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and KSC Director Robert Cabana spoke to the shuttle program employees. During the event Rita Wilcoxson and Patricia Stratton were presented with highest NASA honors: the Distinguished Service Medal and the Distinguished Public Service Medal respectively. The citations on both were identical stating "for continuous outstanding leadership contributions provided to the nation's space shuttle program". A public "welcome home" ceremony was held for the crew at Houston's Ellington Field Hangar 990 on July 22. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86133

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎The Early Years: Mercury to Apollo-Soyuz‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1996. Presumed USGPO First Edition First printing. Staplebound. Good. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Illustrated front cover. 2 14 pages. Illustrations. Top right corner of front cover somewhat curled. This is one of the NASA Information Summaries series. This covers Project Mercury Project Gemini Project Apollo Skylab Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Manned Spacecraft Manned Launch Vehicles and launches. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA is responsible for unique scientific and technological achievements in human spaceflight aeronautics space science and space applications that have had widespread impacts on our nation and the world. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86120

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎SPINOFF: NASA Technologies Enhance Our Lives; NP 2009-10-627-HQ‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2009. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Brochure. Very good. Unpaginated 16 pages. Illustrations color. Map. Spinoff 2009 highlights recent research and development activities across the Agency and the successful transfer of NASA technologies to the marketplace. This brochure summarized the commercial technologies profiled in Spinoff 2009. Presents information on achievements in Health and Medicine; Transportation; Public Safety; Consumer Home and Recreation; Environmental and Agricultural Resources Computer Technology and Industrial Productivity. The full NASA Spinoff 2009 highlights the Agency's work to "research develop verify and transfer advanced aeronautics space and related technologies." NASA-derived technologies included in Spinoff 2009 are: A star-mapping algorithm developed for the Hubble Space Telescope now adapted to identify unique pattern markers on animals like whale sharks and polar bears that is helping study these and other endangered species; A device NASA invented to study cell growth in simulated weightlessness that is now enabling medical research into treatments for conditions such as heart disease diabetes and cirrhosis; A satellite-respondent buoy used for monitoring currents in the North Pacific that now is used for tracking debris fields on the high seas; A gravity-loading technology designed to help astronauts stay in shape while in orbit that has been incorporated in an "anti-gravity" treadmill to help ease physical therapy; and Spacesuits incorporating sun-blocking fabric and special cooling systems that have been adapted into clothing offering protection to patients with light sensitivities. NASA spinoff technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of NASA through research and development contracts such as Small Business Innovation Research SBIR or STTR awards licensing of NASA patents use of NASA facilities technical assistance from NASA personnel or data from NASA research. Information on new NASA technology that may be useful to industry is available in periodical and website form in "NASA Tech Briefs" while successful examples of commercialization are reported annually in the NASA publication "Spinoffs". The Spinoff publication has documented more than 2000 technologies over time. In 1979 notable science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein helped bring awareness to the spinoffs when he was asked to appear before Congress after recovering from one of the earliest known vascular bypass operations to correct a blocked artery. In his testimony reprinted in his 1980 book Expanded Universe Heinlein claimed that four NASA spinoff technologies made the surgery possible and that they were only a few from a long list of NASA spinoff technologies from space development. Since 1976 the NASA Technology Transfer Program has connected NASA resources to private industry referring to the commercial products as spinoffs. Well-known products that NASA claims as spinoffs include memory foam originally named temper foam freeze-dried food firefighting equipment emergency "space blankets" DustBusters cochlear implants LZR Racer swimsuits and CMOS image sensors. As of 2016 NASA has published over 2000 other spinoffs in the fields of computer technology environment and agriculture health and medicine public safety transportation recreation and industrial productivity. Contrary to common belief NASA did not invent Tang Velcro or Teflon. Spinoff is a NASA publication featuring technology made available to the public. Since 1976 NASA has featured an average of 50 technologies each year in the annual publication and Spinoff maintains a searchable database of these technologies. When products first spun off from space research NASA presented a black and white report in 1973 titled the "Technology Utilization Program Report". Because of interest in the reports NASA decided to create the annual publications in color. Spinoff was first published in 1976 and since then NASA has distributed free copies to universities the media inventors and the general public. Spinoff describes how NASA works with various industries and small businesses to bring new technology to the public. As of 2016 there were over 1920 Spinoff products in the database dating back to 1976. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86086

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎STS-126 Extreme Home Improvement‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2008. Xerox-style reproduction. Assumed to be one of only a limited number made for media representatives. Stapled at upper left corner. Very good. ii 114 pages plus front cover. Illustrations. Three-hole punched. Front cover also includes the logo of the United Space Alliance. Contents include STS-126 Mission Overview; Timeline Overview; Mission Profile; Mission Priorities; Mission Personnel; STS-126 Endeavour Crew; Payload Overview; Rendezvous and Docking; Environmental Contol and Life Support System ECLSS; Solar Alpha Rotary Join SARJ; Spacewalks; Experiments; Advanced Resistive Exercise Device; Shuttle Reference Data; Launch and Landing; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Media Assistance; Public Affairs Contacts. STS-126 was the one hundred and twenty-fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission and twenty-second orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour OV-105 to the International Space Station ISS. The purpose of the mission referred to as ULF2 by the ISS program was to deliver equipment and supplies to the station to service the Solar Alpha Rotary Joints SARJ and repair the problem in the starboard SARJ that had limited its use since STS-120. STS-126 launched on 15 November 2008 at 00:55:39 UTC from Launch Pad 39A LC-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center KSC with no delays or issues. Endeavour successfully docked with the station on 16 November 2008. After spending 15 days 20 hours 30 minutes and 30 seconds docked to the station during which the crew performed four spacewalks and transferred cargo the orbiter undocked on 28 November 2008. Due to poor weather at Kennedy Space Center Endeavour landed at Edwards Air Force Base on 30 November 2008 at 21:25:09 UTC. STS-126 included the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module MPLM on its fifth spaceflight. Leonardo held over 14100 lbs of supplies and equipment. Among the items packed into the MPLM were two new crew quarters racks a second galley kitchen for the Destiny laboratory a second Waste and Hygiene Compartment WHC rack lavatory the advanced Resistive Exercise Device aRED two water reclamation racks spare hardware and new experiments. Also included in Leonardo was the General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator or GLACIER a double locker cryogenic freezer for transporting and preserving science experiments. The shuttle also carried irradiated turkey candied yams stuffing and dessert for a special Thanksgiving meal at the station as well as an Official Flight Kit with mementos for those who supported the astronauts and helped them complete their mission successfully. Also carried was a Lightweight MPESS Carrier LMC carrying a Flex Hose Rotary Coupler FHRC and returning a Nitrogen Assembly Tank from Quest for refurbishment. STS-126 was the only mission to land on the temporary runway 04 at Edwards Air Force Base as the main runway was completing refurbishment. The use of the temporary runway required new braking and rollout techniques that have never been used before as the runway is 2990 ft shorter than the normal runway. This was the last landing at Edwards for Endeavour. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86137

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎Juno Launch; Press Kit August 2011‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2011. Xerox-style reproduction. Presumed to be one of only a few copies made for media representatives. Stapled at upper left corner. Very good. 25 1 pages. Illustrations. Contents include Media Services Information; Quick Facts; Jupiter at a Glance; Why Juno; Mission Overview; Mission Phases; Spacecraft; Science Overview; Missions to Jupiter; and Program/Project Management. Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter. It was built by Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5 2011 UTC as part of the New Frontiers program. Juno entered a polar orbit of Jupiter on July 5 2016 UTC to begin a scientific investigation of the planet. After completing its mission Juno will be intentionally deorbited into Jupiter's atmosphere. Juno's mission is to measure Jupiter's composition gravitational field magnetic field and polar magnetosphere. It will also search for clues about how the planet formed including whether it has a rocky core the amount of water present within the deep atmosphere mass distribution and its deep winds which can reach speeds up to 390 mph. Juno is the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter after the nuclear powered Galileo orbiter which orbited from 1995 to 2003. Juno is powered by solar panels commonly used by satellites orbiting Earth and working in the inner Solar System whereas radioisotope thermoelectric generators are commonly used for missions to the outer Solar System and beyond. For Juno however the three largest solar panel wings ever deployed on a planetary probe play an integral role in stabilizing the spacecraft as well as generating power. During the science mission infrared and microwave instruments will measure the thermal radiation emanating from deep within Jupiter's atmosphere. These observations will complement previous studies of its composition by assessing the abundance and distribution of water and therefore oxygen. This data will provide insight into Jupiter's origins. Juno will also investigate the convection that drives natural circulation patterns in Jupiter's atmosphere. Other instruments aboard Juno will gather data about its gravitational field and polar magnetosphere. The Juno mission was planned to conclude in February 2018 after completing 37 orbits of Jupiter but now has been commissioned through 2025 to do a further 42 additional orbits of Jupiter as well as close flybys of Ganymede Europa and Io. The probe was then intended to be deorbited and burnt up in Jupiter's outer atmosphere to avoid any possibility of impact and biological contamination of one of its moons. The Juno spacecraft's suite of science instruments will: Determine the ratio of oxygen to hydrogen effectively measuring the abundance of water in Jupiter which will help distinguish among prevailing theories linking Jupiter's formation to the Solar System; Obtain a better estimate of Jupiter's core mass which will also help distinguish among prevailing theories linking Jupiter's formation to the Solar System; Precisely map Jupiter's gravitational field to assess the distribution of mass in Jupiter's interior including properties of its structure and dynamics; Precisely map Jupiter's magnetic field to assess the origin and structure of the field and the depth at which the planet's magnetic field is created. This experiment will also help scientists understand the fundamental physics of dynamo theory; Map the variation in atmospheric composition temperature structure cloud opacity and dynamics to pressures far greater than 100 bar 10 MPa; 1500 psi at all latitudes; Characterize and explore the three-dimensional structure of Jupiter's polar magnetosphere and auroras; and Measure the orbital frame-dragging known also as Lense-Thirring precession caused by the angular momentum of Jupiter and possibly a new test of general relativity effects connected with the Jovian rotation. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86129

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎International Space Station; Assembling A World-Class Orbiting Laboratory‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration c2000. Presumed First Edition First printing. Pamphlet. Very good. Unpaginated 8 pages. Illustrations 8 pages. This is a NASA Fact Sheet. Each NASA center creates and updates Fact Sheets covering its mission facilities and projects. The ISS was originally intended to be a laboratory observatory and factory while providing transportation maintenance and a low Earth orbit staging base for possible future missions to the Moon Mars and asteroids. However not all of the uses envisioned in the initial memorandum of understanding between NASA and Roscosmos have been realized. In the 2010 United States National Space Policy the ISS was given additional roles of serving commercial diplomatic and educational purposes. This Fact Sheet was produced after Phase I was completed and presumably Phase 2 was on-going. The International Space Station ISS is the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit. The project involves five space agencies: the United States' NASA Russia's Roscosmos Japan's JAXA Europe's ESA and Canada's CSA. The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements. The station serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which scientific research is conducted in astrobiology astronomy meteorology physics and other fields. The ISS is suited for testing the spacecraft systems and equipment required for possible future long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars. The ISS program evolved from the Space Station Freedom a 1984 American proposal conceived by Ronald Reagan to construct a permanently crewed Earth-orbiting station and the contemporaneous Soviet/Russian Mir-2 proposal from 1976 with similar aims. The ISS is the ninth space station to be inhabited by crews following the Soviet and later Russian Salyut Almaz and Mir stations and the American Skylab. It is the largest artificial object in the Solar System and the largest satellite in low Earth orbit regularly visible to the naked eye from Earth's surface. It maintains an orbit with an average altitude of 250 miles by means of reboost maneuvers using the engines of the Zvezda Service Module or visiting spacecraft. The ISS circles the Earth in roughly 93 minutes completing 15.5 orbits per day. The station is divided into two sections: the Russian Orbital Segment ROS is operated by Russia while the United States Orbital Segment USOS is run by the United States as well as other countries. The Russian segment includes six habitable modules. The US segment includes seven habitable modules whose support services are distributed 76.6% for NASA 12.8% for JAXA 8.3% for ESA and 2.3% for CSA. The length along the major axis of the pressurized sections is 218 ft and the total habitable volume of these sections is 13696 cu ft. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86123

‎Office of Price Administration‎

‎Application of Tire or Tube Rationing Certificate Not filled in; Budget Bureau No. 08-R085-42‎

‎Washington DC: Office of Price Administration 1942. Presumed First Edition First printing no Rev. notification. Single sheet printed on both sides. Good. Format is approximately 16 inches by 10.5 inches folded in half creating a four page document. This form has been folded in half and also be creased/folded perhaps to fit into a pocket. The front page as sections for the Name of Registered Owner and applicant information from the Board and details of the application and of the vehicle. The second page asked for additional details about the applicant and associated vehicles. The third page has certification and agreement of applicant and certification by inspector. The back/last page documents the action by the Rationing Board. Tires were the first item to be rationed by the OPA which ordered the temporary end of sales on 11 December 1941 while it created 7500 unpaid volunteer three-person tire ration boards around the country. By 5 January 1942 the boards were ready. Each received a monthly allotment of tires based on the number of local vehicle registrations and allocated them to applicants based on OPA rules. There was a shortage of natural rubber for tires since the Japanese quickly conquered the rubber-producing regions of Southeast Asia. Although synthetic rubber had been invented before the war it had been unable to compete with natural rubber commercially so the US did not have enough manufacturing capacity at the start of the war to make synthetic rubber. Throughout the war rationing of gasoline was motivated by a desire to conserve rubber as much as by a desire to conserve gasoline. To get a classification and rationing stamps one had to appear before a local War Price and Rationing Board which reported to the OPA. The Office of Price Administration OPA was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28 1941. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money price controls and rents after the outbreak of World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated the Council of National Defense Advisory Commission on May 29 1940 to include Price Stabilization and Consumer Protection Divisions. Both divisions merged to become the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply OPACS within the Office for Emergency Management by Executive Order 8734 on April 11 1941. Civil supply functions were transferred to the Office of Production Management. It became an independent agency under the Emergency Price Control Act January 30 1942. The OPA had the power to place ceilings on all prices except agricultural commodities and to ration scarce supplies of other items including tires automobiles shoes nylon sugar gasoline fuel oil coffee meats and processed foods. At the peak almost 90% of retail food prices were frozen. It could also authorize subsidies for production of some of those commodities. The War Production Board WPB ordered the temporary end of all civilian automobile sales on 1 January 1942 leaving dealers with one half million unsold cars. Ration boards grew in size as they began evaluating automobile sales in February only certain professions such as doctors and clergymen qualified to purchase the remaining inventory of new automobiles typewriters in March and bicycles in May. Automobile factories stopped manufacturing civilian models by early February 1942 and converted to producing tanks aircraft weapons and other military products with the United States government as the only customer. Office of Price Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86337

‎National Nuclear Security Administration‎

‎2003-2004 Applied Engineering Testing & Manufacturing Capabilities‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration c2004. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. DVD. Very Good/In plastic case. Face of the CD/DVD states: To open double cline the "My Computer" icon on the desktop double click Drive D: double click ;nnsa catalog". There are images of weapons and platforms and technology images. Additional text reads The Nation's Applied Technology Complex. National Security Solutions Provider. Many customers many capabilities one enterprise. The National Nuclear Security Administration issued this catalogue in 2003-2004 and an updated version in 2005 to present information that its Nuclear Security Enterprise provided complete integration of design development application testing and production and that it provided customers of the Nuclear Weapons Complex with access to unsurpassed expertise. Customers were assured that they would receive more than the highest quality product; they were assured of security and safety throughout the entire process--from design to manufacturing to final delivery. NNSA asserted that it was this complete suite of design manufacturing and testing technologies that made it unique. At the time it was encouraging DOD Intelligence Community agencies and others with appropriate requirements to explore working with the NNSA and its management and operating contractors. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 85216

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎2006 Near-Earth Object Survey and Deflection Study; NP-2007-020460-HQ‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2007. Final Report--Presumed first edition first printing. Wraps. Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 272 pages. Illustrated front and back cover. Illustrations mostly in color. Definition of Terms. References. Appendices. Minor cover wear noted. NASA letter of appreciation to a senior National Nuclear Security Administration technical expert for support to this report. In the 2005 Budget Authorization Act the U.S. Congress directed the NASA Administrator to provide an analysis of alternatives to detect track catalogue and characterize potentially hazardous near-Earth objects NEO. Congress required that the Administrator submit a program by December 28 2006 to survey 90% of the potentially hazardous objects measuring at least 140 meters in diameter by the end of 2020. In addition the legislation required the Administrator to submit an analysis of alternatives that NASA could employ to divert an object on a likely collision course with Earth. A study team led by the Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation PA&E derived requirements and figures of merit from the Act and used these factors to evaluate the alternatives. The team developed a range of options from public and private sources and then analyzed their capabilities levels of performance life-cycle costs schedules and development and operations risks. This document presents the detailed results of these analyses. A summary report was submitted to Congress in December of 2006. During related Congressional testimony on this report it was stated that The report's basic conclusion is that ``NASA recommends that the program continue as currently planned and we will also take advantage of opportunities using potential dual-use telescopes and spacecraft--and partner with other agencies as feasible--to attempt to achieve the legislated goal within 15 years. However due to current budget constraints NASA cannot initiate a new program at this time.'' In addition the report contained a number of additional findings <br /> including: ``The goal of the Survey Program should be modified to detect track catalogue and characterize by the end of 2020 90 percent of all Potentially Hazardous Objects PHOs greater than 140m whose orbits pass within 0.05 AU of the Earth's orbit as opposed to surveying for all NEOs; The Agency could achieve the specified goal of surveying for 90 percent of the potentially hazardous NEOs by the end of 2020 by partnering with other government agencies on potential future optical ground-based observatories and building a dedicated NEO survey asset assuming the partners' potential ground assets come online by 2010 and 2014 and a dedicated asset by 2015; Together the two observatories potentially to be developed by other government agencies could complete 83 percent of the survey by 2020 if observing time at these observatories is shared with NASA's NEO Survey Program; New space-based infrared systems combined with ground-based assets could reduce the overall time to reach the 90 percent goal by at least three years. Space systems have additional benefits as well as costs and risks compared to ground-based alternatives; Radar systems cannot contribute to the search for potentially hazardous objects but may be used to rapidly refine tracking and to determine object sizes for a few NEOs of potentially high interest. Existing radar systems are currently oversubscribed by other missions. Determining a NEO's mass and orbit is required to determine whether it represents a potential threat and to provide required information for most alternatives to mitigate such a threat. Beyond these parameters characterization requirements and capabilities are tied directly to the mitigation strategy selected.''. National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 84040

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center‎

‎STS - 35 NASA - JSC; Brand Hoffman Lounge Parker Gardner Durrance ASTRO1 Parise‎

‎Houston TX: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center 1990. Presumed produced contemporaneously with the STS - 35 Space Mission. Pin. Good. Diameter of the pin is approximately 2.25 inches. The pin has some wear and soiling. The background is white and around the outer border at the top is STS - 35 and at the bottom is NASA - JSC. In the center are to circles the center one shows a Shuttle departing earth and entering a star-filled space. The out circle has the names of the crew and its main mission: Brand Hoffman Lounge Parker Gardner Durrance Parise and ASTRO 1. STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia the 38th shuttle flight and a mission devoted to astronomical observations with ASTRO-1 a Spacelab observatory consisting of four telescopes. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2 December 1990. Prior to the Challenger disaster this mission was slated to launch in March 1986 as STS-61-E. Jon A. McBride was originally assigned to command this mission which would have been his second spaceflight. He chose to retire from NASA in May 1989 and was replaced as mission commander by Vance D. Brand. In addition Richard N. Richards as pilot and David C. Leestma as mission specialist were replaced by Guy S. Gardner and John M. Lounge respectively. Fifty-nine year-old Brand was the oldest astronaut to fly into space until F. Story Musgrave 61 on STS-80 in 1996 and U.S. Senator John H. Glenn Jr. 77 when he flew on STS-95 in 1998. he primary payload of mission STS-35 was ASTRO-1 the fifth flight of the Spacelab system and the second with the Igloo and two pallets train configuration. The primary objectives were round-the-clock observations of the celestial sphere in ultraviolet and X-ray spectral wavelengths with the ASTRO-1 observatory consisting of four telescopes: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope HUT; Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment WUPPE; Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope UIT mounted on the Instrument Pointing System IPS. The Instrument Pointing System consisted of a three-axis gimbal system mounted on a gimbal support structure connected to a Spacelab pallet at one end and the aft end of the payload at the other a payload clamping system for support of the mounted experiment during launch and landing and a control system based on the inertial reference of a three-axis gyro package and operated by a gimbal-mounted microcomputer.4 The Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope BBXRT and its Two-Axis Pointing System TAPS rounded out the instrument complement in the aft payload bay. The Crew: Vance DeVoe Brand born May 9 1931 is an American naval officer aviator aeronautical engineer test pilot and NASA astronaut. He served as command module pilot during the first U.S.-Soviet joint spaceflight in 1975 and as commander of three Space Shuttle missions. His flight experience includes 9669 flying hours which includes 8089 hours in jets 391 hours in helicopters 746 hours in spacecraft and checkout in more than 30 types of military aircraft; Guy Spence Gardner born January 6 1948 is a United States Air Force officer and a former astronaut. He holds the rank of colonel. He flew as pilot on two Space Shuttle missions STS-27 and STS-35; Jeffrey Alan Hoffman born November 2 1944 is an American former NASA astronaut and a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. Hoffman made five flights as a Space Shuttle astronaut including the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993 when the orbiting telescope's flawed optical system was corrected. Over the course of his five missions STS-51-D STS-35 STS-46 STS-61 STS-75 he logged more than 1211 hours and 21.5 million miles in space; John Michael "Mike" Lounge June 28 1946 - March 1 2011 was an American engineer a United States Navy officer a Vietnam War veteran and a NASA astronaut. A veteran of three Space Shuttle flights Lounge logged over 482 hours in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-51-I 1985 and STS-26 1988 and was the flight engineer on STS-35 1990; Robert Allan Ridley Parker born December 14 1936 is an American physicist and astronomer former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a Mission Specialist on two Space Shuttle missions STS-9 and STS-35. He has logged over 3500 hours flying time in jet aircraft and 463 hours in space; Samuel Thornton Durrance Ph.D. is an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions ETS-35 STS-67 as a payload specialist; and Ronald Anthony Parise May 24 1951 - May 9 2008 was an Italian American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle STS-35 STS-67 missions as a payload specialist. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83848

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎STS-43 Crew Patch Sticker‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1991. Presumed First Edition First printing before correction to replace Discovery with Atlantis. Single sticker sheet printed on both sides. Good. RARE with Discovery attribution. Approximately 5 inches at its highest and 4 inches at its widest. Some soiling noted. STS-43 the ninth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis was a 9 day mission whose primary goal was launching the TDRS-E satellite TDRS-5. The flight also tested an advanced heatpipe radiator for potential use on the then-future space station and conducted a variety of medical and materials science investigations. Apparently Space Shuttle Discovery was originally intended to fly this mission. From the text on the sticker's peelable back the STS-43 insignia portrays the evolution and continuity of the U.S. space program by highlighting 30 years of American manned spaceflight experience from Mercury to the Space Shuttle. The emergence of the shuttle Discovery from the outlined configuration of the Mercury space capsule commemorates this special relationship. The energy and momentum of launch are conveyed by the gradations of blue which mark the shuttle's ascent from Earth to space. Once in Earth orbit Discovery's cargo bay opens to reveal the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite which appears in gold emphasis against the white wings of Discovery and the stark blackness of space. As primary mission objective the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will enable almost continuous communication from Earth to space for future space shuttle missions. The stars on the insignia are arranged to suggest this mission's STS number: four stars left of Shuttle and three starts to the right. NOTE: Later versions of the sticker properly reference the Shuttle Atlantis! The five astronauts are named on the front: Blaha Baker Lucid Adamson and Low. John Elmer Blaha born August 26 1942 in San Antonio Texas is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space missions aboard the Space Shuttle and Mir. Michael Allen Baker born October 27 1953 is a retired captain in the United States Navy former NASA astronaut and the International Space Station Program Manager for International and Crew Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid born January 14 1943 is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut. At one time she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American as well as by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Mir space station in 1996; she is the only American woman to have served aboard Mir. George David Low February 19 1956 - March 15 2008 was an American aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut. In addition to holding some technical assignments he logged more than 700 hours in space including stints on the Columbia the Atlantis and the Endeavour Space Shuttles before he left NASA in 1996. James Craig Adamson born March 3 1946 is a former NASA astronaut and retired Colonel of the United States Army. James Adamson flew on two missions STS-28 and STS-43 and completed 263 orbits and 334 hours in space. In terms of mission highlights the primary payload TDRS-E attached to an Inertial Upper Stage IUS was deployed about six hours into flight and the IUS propelled the satellite into geosynchronous orbit. TDRS-5 became the fourth member of the orbiting TDRS cluster. Secondary payloads were Space Station Heat Pipe Advanced Radiator Element SHARE II; Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultra-Violet SSBUV instrument; Tank Pressure Control Equipment TPCE and Optical Communications Through Windows OCTW. Other experiments included Auroral Photography Experiment APE-B Protein Crystal Growth Ill PCG Ill; Bioserve / Instrumentation Technology Associates Materials Dispersion Apparatus BIMDA; Investigations into Polymer Membrane Processing IPMP; Space Acceleration Measurement System SAMS; Solid Surface Combustion Experiment SSCE; Ultraviolet Plume imager UVPI; and the Air Force Maui Optical Site AMOS experiment. TDRS-E which became TDRS-5 on orbit was successfully boosted to geosynchronous orbit at more than 22000 miles 35400 km 22000 mi above Earth by two firings of the Inertial Upper Stage IUS booster the last of which occurred approximately 12½ hours into the mission. TDRS then deployed its antennas and solar panels and separation from the IUS took place less than 45 minutes later. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83822

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎Celebrating the Legacy of the Space Shuttle Program Commemorative Medallion of the Space Shuttle Program‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration c2011. One of a number of multiple originals. Coin/Medal. Fine. An approximately 2 inch diameter clear plastic case with a 7.75 inch NASA silver medallion inside. The attached image show both the front and back of the single medallion and clear plastic stand. The front side has a colorful center image of the Space Shuttle Orbiter and Launch Vehicle The outer portion has the text "Celebrating the Legacy of the Space Shuttle Program. The reverse side has an outer ring of text that states: Excellence Achieved By Those Who Believed NASA Commemorative. There is a striking image of the Launch Vehicle with Orbiter attached lifting off with the plume billowing at the bottom. The text on the right states: This medallion contains metal flown on the historic Space Shuttle Mission Complete. Both shuttle medals Mission Complete and Legacy celebrate the winged spacecraft and the program's 30 years of innovation and service. These official medallions were minted with metal from the same ingots used for the framed editions that were flown on a shuttle mission. Each medallion features a full color embedded insert of the official Space Shuttle Program Commemorative insignia. Official NASA Mission Complete Medallion in silver contains flown metal material! This official Mission Complete Medallion is 1.75" and commemorates the historic completion of the Space Shuttle Program. In addition this limited edition medallion commemorates the exceptional accomplishments and missions of the first winged-spacecrafts. This medallion is one of a series of two and is also worthy of the program it represents. These medallions will be plated in silver and protected within circular presentation cases with high-density black foam spacers. The Space Shuttle Program was from 1981 to 2011. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83828

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎STS-28 Crew Patch Sticker‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1989. Presumed one of multiple originals. Single sheet printed on one side. Good. Crew patch sticker is a circle with approximately a 3.5 inch diameter. There is an image of the earth a bald eagle and the space shuttle with rays of red white and blue in the background. The names of Adamson Leestma Brown Richards and Shaw are at the outer edge. There is no text on the reverse side. There is no indication that this is the crew patch logo/sticker for STS-28 but research established its identify. Back is soiled. Backing over the adhesive is intact. STS-28 launched on August 8 1989 was the third shuttle mission to fly after the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986 and Columbia's first flight after the loss of her sister ship. This was the fourth mission dedicated to the Department of Defense. The Space Shuttle Columbia the first operational reusable spaceship in NASA's fleet lifted off from Kennedy Space Center the morning of August 8 1989. This was the thirtieth flight of the Space Shuttle and the first flight of the refurbished Columbia since the 61-C mission in 1986. The primary payload on this flight was classified. Non-classified life sciences experiments performed during the STS-28 mission were those classified as Detailed Supplementary Objectives DSOs. A DSO is a NASA-sponsored investigation performed by Space Shuttle crewmembers who serve as the test subjects. T Biomedical DSOs focus on operational concerns including space motion sickness cardiovascular deconditioning muscle loss changes in coordination and balance strategies radiation exposure pharmacokinetics and changes in the body's biochemistry. The STS-28 insignia was designed by the astronaut crew who said it portrays the pride the American people have in their manned spaceflight program. It depicts America the eagle guiding the space program the Space Shuttle safely home from an orbital mission. The view looks south on Baja California and the west coast of the United States as the space travelers re-enter the atmosphere. The hypersonic contrails created by the eagle and Shuttle represent the American flag. The crew called the simple boldness of the design symbolic of America's unfaltering commitment to leadership in the exploration and development of space. The crew consisted of all military personnel: Commander Brewster H. Shaw Jr. Pilot Richard N. Richards and Mission Specialists James C. Adamson David C. Leestma and Mark N. Brown. Brewster Hopkinson Shaw Jr. born May 16 1945 is a retired NASA astronaut U.S. Air Force colonel and former executive at Boeing. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 6 2006. Shaw is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and has logged 533 hours of space flight. He was pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia in November 1983 commander of Space Shuttle Atlantis in November 1985 and commander of Columbia in August 1989. Following the Space Shuttle Challenger accident in 1986 he supported the Rogers' Presidential Commission investigating the accident. Shaw subsequently led the Space Shuttle Orbiter return-to-flight team chartered to enhance the safety of the vehicles' operations. Shaw worked as a manager at NASA until 1996. Richard Noel "Dick" Richards born August 24 1946 Capt USN Ret. is a retired American naval officer and aviator test pilot chemical engineer and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s. Richards flew on four missions: STS-28 August 8-13 1989 STS-41 October 6-10 1990 STS-50 June 25-July 9 1992 and STS-64 September 9-20 1994--and logged a total of 33 days 21 hours 32 minutes 15 seconds in space. James Craig Adamson born March 3 1946 is a former NASA astronaut and retired Colonel of the United States Army. James Adamson flew on two missions STS-28 and STS-43 and completed 263 orbits and 334 hours in space. David Cornell Leestma born May 6 1949 is a former American astronaut and retired Captain in the United States Navy. He was a mission specialist on STS-41-G October 5-13 1984 STS-28 August 8-13 1989 and STS-45 March 24 to April 2 1992. Mark Neil Brown born November 18 1951 is an American engineer retired colonel in the United States Air Force and former NASA astronaut. Brown spent a total of ten days in space over two five day missions. Brown was a mission specialist on the crew of STS-28 and STS-48. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83819

‎National Nuclear Security Administration‎

‎Departure Ceremony for Marty Schoenbauer May 28 2008‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration 2008. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. This is an approximately 8.5 inch by 11 inch sheet of stiff card paper folded at the center to create four 5.5 by 8.5 inch panels. Illustrations are on the front and back panels. Text is on all panels. Marty was born February 191953 in St. Louis Park Minnesota. He was a graduate of Montgomery High School in 1971 the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975 and the George Washington University in 1981. Marty was a U.S. Naval officer for 20 years and civil servant for 20 years with 8 of those years in the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. Department of Energy. He retired for the third time in April 2018 after 4 years at Honeywell. Marty honorably served his country in a number of Uniformed Service civilian and private sector career. This event program marked his departure from the Office of Defense Programs to take on a critically important Department of Energy position at the United States Embassy in Beijing People's Republic of China where he was the Secretary's Representative and Senior DOE representative in China. Copies of such event programs rarely survive the event itself. Presiding at the departure event was Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Robert L. Smolen and making the major presentation was Thomas P. D'Agostino Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. The senior representative of the United States Department of Energy at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing China is responsible for leading a team to advance U.S. security and economic interests in the areas of energy science and technology and nuclear security and nonproliferation. In this role the senior representative is responsible for developing analyses and recommendations for the Secretary on key strategic initiatives with China related to the overall energy relationship. The representative is responsible for conducting in-depth analyses for comprehensive energy policy planning and strategic decision making on international energy policy and investment and trade issues. The representative provides insights briefings and other comprehensive analyses on key energy issues in China and Asia more broadly including on the issues of energy security clean energy development and deployment energy efficiency clean energy technology innovation and bilateral and multilateral cooperation initiatives among others. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 82252

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory‎

‎Jet Propulsion Laboratory‎

‎Pasadena CA: California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1982. Tailored compilation unknown number of these specific sets assembled. Folder with multiple inserts. Good. Scarce compilation of publications and 14 photographs. Folder is worn/torn and approximately 9 inches by 12 inches with impressive color space photographs on front and back. Inside there are two/pockets with text and inserts in each side. On the left side there is a pamphlet JPL Closeup approximately 8.5 inches by 8.5 inches. 16 pages plus covers. Illustrated. Dated 5/80. The second item is entitles Voyager at Saturn: 1981. It is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. It has an illustration on the front cover. It is dated on the back as produced in 1981. It is 16 pages plus covers with illustrations some in color. On the right side is Voyager 1 Encounters Saturn JPL 400-100 dated 12/80. It is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. It has 40 pages plus covers and is illustrated some in color. There are 6 8.5 inches by 11 inch color photographs with substantial text on the back of each. The Voyager Jupiter photographs are designated Voyager 1-47 P-21182 March 3 1979 Voyager 1-143 P-21457 March 3 1979 Voyager 1-149 P-21631 undated; Voyager 1-S-13 P-23058 November 6 1980 Voyager 1-S-54 P-23178 November 15 1980 and Voyager 1-S-82 P=23400 undated. There are 8 approximately 8 inch by 10 inch photographs 2 in black and white and six color. The Voyager Jupiter images are P-23876C August 13 1981 P-23912C/BW August 21 1981 P-23913C August 21 1981 P-23887C/BW August 24 1981 P-23922C August 24 1981 P-23927C August 25 1981 P-23932BW August 25 1981 and P-23933BW August 25 1981. Each image back has text taped to it. Folder with multiple inserts The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research development and flight center owned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology. JPL's primary responsibility is the investigation of the solar system with automated scientific spacecraft. The Laboratory's activities however are not limited to space exploration. The basic research and development in support of space exploration involves a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering disciplines; the resulting technological and managerial capabilities are finding increasing application to medical and environmental problems on earth especially in the area of solar energy research. To provide spacecraft tracking and communications for deep-space missions JPL designed developed and manages the Deep Space Network DSN with stations in California Spain and Australia. The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Continuing on their more-than-40-year journey since their 1977 launches they each are much farther away from Earth and the sun than Pluto. In August 2012 Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space the region between stars filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. Voyager 2 entered interstellar space on November 5 2018 and scientists hope to learn more about this region. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network or DSN. The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After making a string of discoveries there — such as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings — the mission was extended. California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 81051

‎General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, Federal Register Division‎

‎Handbook of Emergency Defense Activities‎

‎Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1951. Presumed first printing of this semi-annual issuance. Wraps. Good. vi 119 1 pages. Stamp and ink initials on front cover. Footnotes. Tabular information. Commonly used abbreviations Sources of Information Name Index. Index. Minor damp staining at top and side edges of some rear pages. The Handbook of Emergency Defense Activities is a guide to Federal Agencies whose activities are primarily devoted to mobilization or to other related phases of the defense program. Many previously existing agencies have been delegated vital defense functions or have directed their regular functions toward the defense program. The Handbook includes brief organizational outlines and the names and addresses of officials of emergency defense agencies the Department of Defense and the United States Coast Guard. It also includes a separate list of officials from whom information may be obtained concerning other Federal agencies. The Handbook is designed to assist the public in reaching the services it needs in connection with the defense program. The Handbook is issued twice a year and the printing of this publication has been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. Among the organizations included are: Air Coordinating Committee which was an interdepartmental committee established to consider policy problems involving military and civil matter; the Atomic Energy Commission Defense Materials Procurement Agency Defense Production Administration the Defense Transport Administration Subversive Activities Control Board and the National Security Resources Board among others. This is a snapshot of both the Cold War and the hot war in Korea. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 82075

‎Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Staff‎

‎Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge‎

‎Aviation Supplies & Academics Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean average condition without any missing pages. Aviation Supplies & Academics, Incorporated unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4050556-6 ISBN : 1560277505 9781560277507

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration and United States Postal Service‎

‎First Day Cover for Space Shuttle Discovery‎

‎Kennedy Space Center FL: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1988. First Day Cover--original issue canceled Oct. 3 1988. First Day Cover. Good. Envelop contains a 6.25 inch by 3.25 inches card with information on Space Shuttle Discovery printed on one side. This first day cover commemorates STS-26 which was the 26th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the seventh flight of the orbiter Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center Florida on 29 September 1988 and landed on 3 October. STS-26 was declared the "Return to Flight" mission being the first mission after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of 28 January 1986. It was the first mission since STS-9 to use the original STS numbering system the first to have all its crew members wear pressure suits for launch and landing since STS-4 and the first mission with bailout capacity since STS-4. STS-26 was also the first U.S. space mission with an all-veteran crew since Apollo 11 with all of its crew members having flown at least one prior mission. The crew were Hauck Covey Lounge Hilmers and Nelson. The envelop has a large mission logo on the left side with these five names at the perimeter. The primary payload for the STS-26 mission a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite TDRS was successfully deployed and 11 scheduled mid-deck scientific and technological experiments were carried out. During STS-26 Discovery became the first spacecraft to fly in space equipped with a VCU Voice Control Unit a computer capable of recognizing and responding to human speech. Discovery suffered damage to its thermal protection tiles in the underwing area. Post-flight analysis showed that the impact of a 12-inch long piece of insulation during ascent was the culprit Martha Black sent this to Mr. and Mrs. John Adamsky. Ink notation on back indicates it was sent by Ms. Black. M. M. Black is listed on the staff of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident as the Personal Assistant to the Vice Chairman and the Executive Director. She was assigned from the Office of Management and Budget. Neil Armstrong was the Vice Chairman. Dr. Alton G. Keel Jr. was the Executive Director and was assigned from the White House staff. One of the addressees Ms. Megan Adamsky led an adventurous life. After graduating from the University of New Mexico she taught school in Los Alamos and Seattle. She then moved to an oil camp in the jungles of Venezuela where she was responsible for educating the children of the oil workers. There she met John Adamsky who remained her loving husband until his death in 1994. His work took them to many parts of the globe from Italy to the Far East. Space Shuttle Discovery Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103 is one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission STS-41-D flew from August 30 to September 5 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times aggregating more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date. The Space Shuttle launch vehicle has three main components: the Space Shuttle orbiter a single-use central fuel tank and two reusable solid rocket boosters. Nearly 25000 heat-resistant tiles cover the orbiter to protect it from high temperatures on re-entry. The origin of the debris was the forward field joint on the right-hand SRB. Discovery suffered damage to its thermal protection tiles in the underwing area. The damage was such that during re-entry the thermal protection tile eroded almost completely. A similar chain of events ultimately led to the loss of Columbia fifteen years later. Discovery became the third operational orbiter to enter service preceded by Columbia and Challenger. It embarked on its final mission STS-133 on February 24 2011 and touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center on March 9 having spent a cumulative total of nearly a full year in space. Discovery performed both research and International Space Station ISS assembly missions and also carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired followed by Endeavour and then Atlantis. The shuttle is now on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 81208

‎Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos Site Office‎

‎LASO Weapon QA Site Office Survey‎

‎Los Alamos NM: Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Los Alamos Site Office 2011. Presumed unique compilation. DVD. Very good. CD/DVD Contains LASO WQAP LASO Institutional QAP LASO Functions Responsibilities and Authorities FRAs and LASO Quality Assurance Management Procedures. Quality assurance QA is a way of preventing mistakes and defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering products or services to customers; which ISO 9000 defines as "part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled". This defect prevention in quality assurance differs subtly from defect detection and rejection in quality control and has been referred to as a shift left since it focuses on quality earlier in the process i.e. to the left of a linear process diagram reading left to right. When properly implemented the principles and requirements form a management system to plan perform assess and improve work. The requirements are performance oriented and offer implementation flexibility. The DOE quality management system moves beyond the traditional quality assurance requirements that had become narrowly focused on compliance and inspections. The management system is designed to link with an organization's strategic plan to support mission achievement and the delivery of products and services. The Department's commitment to environment safety and health relies upon work being conducted within an effective management system. DOE line managers and contracting officers must ensure the QA Order and QA Rule are specified in each major contract. The Weapon Quality Assurance FAQS establishes common functional area competency requirements for all National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA Weapon Quality Assurance personnel who provide assistance direction guidance oversight or evaluation of contractor activities that could impact the production maintenance and design of nuclear weapons. The technical FAQS has been developed as a tool to assist NNSA program and field offices in the development and implementation of the TQP in their organization. The NNSA Management System Assessment MSA is an activity sponsored by Quality Management. The assessments are conducted to fulfill Quality Management's responsibilities and cited requirements under DOE O 414.1D Quality Assurance NAP-26 Quality Management System and ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System. MSAs are conducted by trained and certified ISO auditors and involve onsite management system reviews at the NNSA Headquarters HQ facilities in Washington DC Germantown MD Albuquerque NM and the field offices. MSAs are a check at a point in time of an organization's management system to verify whether it is properly implemented maintained and whether mission-related processes are being planned documented executed and subjected to periodic management review. The MSA objective is to strengthen accountability by ensuring that procedures are established and followed. MSAs also enhance risk management resource stewardship and governance across all NNSA federal organizations. These MSAs will be conducted in accordance with an assessment plan and schedule that is developed by the NNSA Management Systems Board MSB. The plan will be approved by the NNSA Management Council. NNSA has developed documented implemented and maintained its Quality Management System QMS to ensure it aligns with select and applicable principles of ISO 9001. With this alignment the NNSA QMS is based upon an approach that: • Identifies the processes needed for the management system; • Determines the sequence and interaction of processes; • Establishes the criteria and methods required to ensure effective operation and management of processes; • Ensures the availability of resources and information necessary to support processes; and • Monitors measures and analyzes processes to achieve planned results and continual improvement. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos Site Office unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80989

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center‎

‎WB 57F Long Wing; NASA JSC‎

‎Houston TX: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center c2010. Patches. Very good. Oval shape approximately 5 inches in maximum length and 3 inches in maximum width. Center is an image of the aircraft looking down upon it. At the top of the oval is "WB" to the left of the aircraft nose and "57F" to the right. The letters "NASA" is over the left wing and the letters "JSC" are over the right wing. Under the left wing is the word "Long" and under the right wing is the word "Wing". The field is largely blue with a gold border. Lettering is in red white and gold. The NASA WB-57 Program provides unique high-altitude airborne platforms to US Government agencies academic institutions and commercial customers in order to support scientific research and advanced technology development and testing at locations around the world. Mission examples include atmospheric and earth science ground mapping cosmic dust collection rocket launch support and test bed operations for future airborne or spaceborne systems. The NASA Johnson Space Center JSC in Houston Texas is the home of the NASA WB-57 High Altitude Research Program. Three fully operational WB-57 aircraft are based near JSC at Ellington Field. The aircraft have been flying research missions since the early 1960's and continue to be an asset to the scientific community with professional reliable customer-oriented service designed to meet all scientific objectives. The Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F Canberra is a specialized strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed in the 1960s for the United States Air Force by General Dynamics from the Martin B-57 Canberra tactical bomber which itself was a license-built version of the English Electric Canberra. It was operationally assigned to the Air Weather Service for weather reconnaissance involving high-altitude atmospheric sampling and radiation detection in support of nuclear test monitoring but four of the 21 modified aircraft performed solely as strategic reconnaissance platforms in Japan and Germany. Three of the modified aircraft were destroyed with loss of their crews while performing operationally. The remainder were re-designated WB-57F in 1968. Four of the survivors were subsequently used by NASA for high-altitude atmospheric research. The others were retired from 1972 to 1974 and placed in storage. As of 2015 three WB-57Fs are the only B-57 aircraft model still flying in service with NASA.<br /> <br /> The WB-57 is a mid-wing long-range aircraft capable of operation for extended periods of time from sea level to altitudes well in excess of 60000 feet. Two crew members are positioned at separate tandem stations in the cockpit. The pilot station contains all the essential equipment for flying the aircraft. The sensor operator station contains both navigational equipment and controls for the operation of the payloads and payload support systems located throughout the aircraft. The WB-57 can remain aloft for approximately 6.5 hours flying both day and night so long as separation from hazardous weather can be maintained. With a range of 2500 miles the aircraft can be deployed to any continent. The WB-57 aircraft can carry up to 6000 lbs. of payload. The WB-57 employs a pallet system in the main fuselage area. The pallet system consists of interchangeable pallet modules. Pressurized and unpressurized pallets are available. The pallet system will carry a total of 4000 lbs. including pallet weight. Lighter payloads can also be carried in the aft fuselage tail cone wing pods wing hatches and/ or the nose cone. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80970

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, WB-57 Program Office‎

‎WB-57; High Altitude Research Aircraft‎

‎Houston TX: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center WB-57 Program Office c2010. Presumed First Edition First printing. Brochure. Very good. Format is approximately one sheet 11 inches by 8.5 inches folded in half resulting in four panels approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. Label related to WB-57 Program Office affixed on back panel. Illustrations most in color . Front panel had the document title and is mostly a photo from slightly above for the WB-57 in flight over water. The interior two panels provides a Program Overview and Payload Integration Locations with captioned image of the plane from underneath three payload photographs and a photograph of the plane on the ground with crew members in the forefront. The rear panel has technical information on Performance and Capabilities with dimensional diagrams and contact details for getting additional information. The NASA WB-57 Program provides unique high-altitude airborne platforms to US Government agencies academic institutions and commercial customers in order to support scientific research and advanced technology development and testing at locations around the world. Mission examples include atmospheric and earth science ground mapping cosmic dust collection rocket launch support and test bed operations for future airborne or spaceborne systems. The NASA Johnson Space Center JSC in Houston Texas is the home of the NASA WB-57 High Altitude Research Program. Three fully operational WB-57 aircraft are based at Ellington Field. The aircraft have been flying research missions since the 1960's and continue to be an asset to the scientific community with professional reliable customer-oriented service designed to meet all scientific objectives. The Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F Canberra is a specialized strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed in the 1960s for the United States Air Force by General Dynamics from the Martin B-57 Canberra tactical bomber which itself was a license-built version of the English Electric Canberra. It was operationally assigned to the Air Weather Service for weather reconnaissance involving high-altitude atmospheric sampling and radiation detection in support of nuclear test monitoring but four of the 21 modified aircraft performed solely as strategic reconnaissance platforms in Japan and Germany. Three of the modified aircraft were destroyed with loss of their crews while performing operationally. The remainder were re-designated WB-57F in 1968. Four of the survivors were subsequently used by NASA for high-altitude atmospheric research. The others were retired from 1972 to 1974 and placed in storage. As of 2015 three WB-57Fs are the only B-57 aircraft model still flying in service with NASA.<br /> <br /> The WB-57 is a mid-wing long-range aircraft capable of operation for extended periods of time from sea level to altitudes well in excess of 60000 feet. Two crew members are positioned at separate tandem stations in the cockpit. The pilot station contains all the essential equipment for flying the aircraft. The sensor operator station contains both navigational equipment and controls for the operation of the payloads and payload support systems located throughout the aircraft. The WB-57 can remain aloft for approximately 6.5 hours flying both day and night so long as separation from hazardous weather can be maintained. With a range of 2500 miles the aircraft can be deployed to any continent. The WB-57 aircraft can carry up to 6000 lbs. of payload. The WB-57 employs a pallet system in the main fuselage area. The pallet system consists of interchangeable pallet modules. Pressurized and unpressurized pallets are available. The pallet system will carry a total of 4000 lbs. including pallet weight. Lighter payloads can also be carried in the aft fuselage tail cone wing pods wing hatches and/ or the nose cone. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, WB-57 Program Office unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80979

‎U. S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs‎

‎Nevada Test Site: Remote Sensing Laboratory; DOE/NV --1140‎

‎Las Vegas NV: U. S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Office of Public Affairs 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. Format is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. One sheet printed on both sides. Illustrations on each side. Front side has narrative under the headings of: Introduction Background Emergency Response. The other side has narrative under the headings of: Remote sensing science and technology Counterterrorism science and technology and RSL Technical Assets. The Nevada National Security Site N2S2 or NNSS known as the Nevada Test Site NTS until August 23 2010 is a United States Department of Energy DoE reservation located in southeastern Nye County Nevada about 65 miles 105 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds the site was established on January 11 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices covering approximately 1360 square miles 3500 km2 of desert and mountainous terrain. Nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a 1-kiloton-of-TNT 4.2 TJ bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on January 27 1951. Over the subsequent four decades over one thousand nuclear explosions were detonated at the NTS. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from the NTS. During the 1950s the mushroom clouds from the 100 atmospheric tests could be seen from almost 100 mi 160 km away. The city of Las Vegas experienced noticeable seismic effects and the mushroom clouds which could be seen from the downtown hotels became tourist attractions. A further 921 nuclear tests were carried out underground. The Nevada Test Site contains 28 areas 1100 buildings 400 miles 640 km of paved roads 300 miles of unpaved roads 10 heliports and two airstrips. Currently the Mission Support and Test Services MSTS the successor of the NSTech is the civilian contractor for the test site's management and further oversees the overall operations of the test site. The MSTS manages and operates the Nevada Test Site for the National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA while The Security Protective Force SPF is responsible for providing the safeguards and security to the NNSS. U. S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 80975