Space 1999: Soaring to the heavens in the electrical century (original) (raw)

THE GREAT INVENTIONS IN AIR AND SPACE TRANSPORT THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND THEIR FUTURE EVOLUTION

This article aims to present the inventions that occurred with the means of air and space transport throughout history. Air transport means are those that move in the air (balloons, airships, planes, helicopters and drones) to transport people and cargo. Space transport means are those that move through outer space using rockets and/or spacecraft to transport astronauts, artificial satellites, space probes, robots, rovers or any other type of equipment for space exploration. In addition to presenting the evolution of air and space transport throughout history, its future evolutions are also presented.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS, 87th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 27-29, 2009, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA Aeronautical and Aerospace Sciences FROM THE EARTH TO SPACE WITH NACA/NASA

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S OF PAPERS, 87th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 27-29, 2009, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA Aeronautical and Aerospace Sciences FROM THE EARTH TO SPACE WITH NACA/NASA. M. Leroy Spearman. NASALangley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681 & Heidi Owens, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849. Leonardo da Vinci envisioned man-flight in the 15 century and th designed a practical airplane concept in 1490. Many other pioneers proposed various types of flying machines over the next 400 years but it was not until December 17, 1903 that the Wright Brothers, at Kitty Hawk, NC, were credited with achieving the first manned-powered flight. Over the next 100 years, several factors have influenced advances in aviation. The use of aircraft by European nations in World War I resulted in concern that the U.S. was lagging in aviation developments. This lead to an act of the U.S. Congress in 1915 that established the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) ...

Alternate history and the evolution of manned flight

39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 2001

Several turning points in aerospace history are examined to explore possible alternative outcomes and important aspects of the historical significance of the divergences and the impact upon aerospace technology. In early aviation, the aviators Otto Lilienthal, Samuel Langley, and the Wright Brothers are considered as likely candidates for alternative historical paths. In early rocket development, the lives of the rocket scientists Robert Goddard, Wernher von Braun, and Sergei Korolev are similarly examined.

From red star rising to rocket's red glare: space travel, the early years

Physics education, 2007

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 12 th September 1962.