Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery From Space - Brossura

Launius, Roger D.; Jenkins, Dennis R.; Nasa History Office

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1782662251 ISBN 13: 9781782662259

Casa editrice: Military Bookshop, 2012

Riassunto

This study represents a means of highlighting the myriad of technological developments that made possible the safe reentry and * from space and the landing on Earth. This story extends back at least to the work of Walter Hohmann and Eugen Sänger in Germany in the 1920s and involved numerous aerospace engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)/NASA Langley and the Lewis (now the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field) and Ames Research Centers. For example, researchers such as H. Julian Allen and Alfred J. Eggers, Jr., at Ames pioneered blunt-body reentry techniques and ablative thermal protection systems in the 1950s, while Francis M. Rogallo at Langley developed creative parasail concepts that informed the development of the recovery systems of numerous reentry vehicles. Discovering the optimal, most elegant solutions for reentry and recovery from space requires diligence and creativity. This history seeks to tell this complex story in a compelling, sophisticated, and technically sound manner for an audience that understands little about the evolution of flight technology. Bits and pieces of this history exist in other publications, but often overlooked is the critical role these concepts played in making a safe * to Earth possible. Moreover, the challenges, mysteries, and outcomes that these programs’ members wrestled with offer object lessons in how earlier generations of engineers sought optimal solutions and made tradeoffs. With the CCDev program-a multiphase program intended to stimulate the development of privately-operated crew vehicles to low-Earth orbit-currently underway, NASA is * to a capsule concept for space flight. This may prove a signint development, and this history could help enlighten the NASA team about past efforts and the lessons learned from those efforts.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Military Bookshop
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782662251
• ISBN 13: 9781782662259
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 338
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile