The Birth Of Nasa The Diary Of T Keith Glennan
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The Birth of NASA
Author | : Thomas Keith Glennan |
Publsiher | : U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015029111450 |
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The Birth of NASA--The Diary of T. Keith Glennan tells the story of the critical formative months of the new agency. The Introduction describes the background of T. Keith Glennan, the first NASA Administrator. After the Introduction, the book continues with Glennan's recollections of NASA from his appointment until the end of 1959. The 13 chapters are written in a diary format covering month-by-months his activities until he left the position in 1961. A Postscript, written in 1963, gives his views on the space program after he left office. A Biographical Appendix gives short sketches of about 400 individuals active in the space program during this period. Throughout the diary numerous explanatory footnotes by the editor clarify events an provide references for further details. Although Glennan's stay at NASA was short, his contributions are most significant, as he built the organization that would send men to the moon and serve the nation to the present time.
The Birth of NASA
Author | : National Aeronautics and Space Administration,J. D. Hunley,Roger D. Launius |
Publsiher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2014-02-05 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1495444368 |
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"The Birth of NASA—The Diary of T. Keith Glennan" tells the story of the critical formative months of the new agency. The Introduction describes the background of T. Keith Glennan, the first NASA Administrator. After the Introduction, the book continues with Glennan's recollections of NASA from his appointment until the end of 1959. The 13 chapters are written in a diary format covering month-by-months his activities until he left the position in 1961. A Postscript, written in 1963, gives his views on the space program after he left office. A Biographical Appendix gives short sketches of about 400 individuals active in the space program during this period. Throughout the diary numerous explanatory footnotes by the editor clarify events an provide references for further details. Although Glennan's stay at NASA was short, his contributions are most significant, as he built the organization that would men to the moon and serve the nation to the present time. By T. Keith Glennan: “When I first began keeping this journal or diary, I never thought that it might, one day, be published. When I was appointed as the first Administrator of the newly authorized National Aeronautics and Space Administration on 19 August 1958, I started to keep a hand-written diary of sorts but soon found that my time was all too limited for that task. When I went back to Cleveland for the year-end holidays in 1959, I found that my four children had become much interested in knowing more about my job. They were also developing an interest in national and international affairs that intrigued me. I resolved to record my activities using my daily appointment cards to remind me of the important meetings that had become a daily way of life. I had a small, battery-operated recording machine called a dictette, and I usually dictated a summary of the day's happenings before I turned off the light each night. I sent the tapes back to my office at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland where my secretary, Barbara Helberg, transcribed and stored them. I never saw them until I returned to Case in early 1961. Nor did I or anyone else edit them until NASA's chief historian, Dr. Roger D. Launius, and Dr. J. D. Hunley of the NASA History Office undertook the task. I did retain all of the daily appointment record cards, however. In 1963 my wife and I decided to take a long holiday in Europe, and I took the dictette and appointment cards with me, intending to record the events of the days between 19 August 1958 and 1 January 1960. I soon found that my memory was a bit hazy; I therefore chose to provide the kids with synopses of relationships with individuals or groups rather than the hour-by-hour recitation mode I had used to record the events after 1 January 1960. Throughout, I had embellished the unfolding story with bits of personal feelings or philosophy when stimulated by significant meetings or events. I do regret that I did not record the full diary when I started in the new post. When I completed the diary proper in 1963, I decided to voice my concern over the "crash" nature of the Apollo program, although I recognize that my conservative nature certainly clouded my vision at the time. When the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, I was glued to a television screen at the Bohemian Grove north of San Francisco and was as thrilled and emotionally moved as anyone could be. The management of that program by Jim Webb, Hugh Dryden, Tom Paine, Bob Seamans and Bob Gilruth was in the best tradition of the great undertakings that have periodically marked our nation's history.”
The Birth of NASA
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Author | : T. Keith Glennan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1999-05 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0788170066 |
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The Birth of NASA the Diary of T Keith Glennan
Author | : Roger Launius |
Publsiher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1478234067 |
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This book tells the history of NASA through the Diary of a person who had an enormous impact of the program itself. It goes through original ideas about the space program to missions that took place and many interesting facts.
The Birth of Nasa
Author | : Thomas Keith Glennan,J. D. Hunley,Nasa Technical Reports Server (Ntrs) |
Publsiher | : BiblioGov |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-06 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 128914544X |
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The NASA Technical Reports Servcr (NTRS) houses half a million publications that are a valuable means of information to researchers, teachers, students, and the general public. These documents are all aerospace related with much scientific and technical information created or funded by NASA. Some types of documents include conference papers, research reports, meeting papers, journal articles and more. This is one of those documents.
The Birth of Nasa
Author | : T. Keith Glennan,Roger Launius,J. D. Hunley |
Publsiher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1499162855 |
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Early in the morning of 4 October 1957, T. Keith Glennan went to work, just as he had for more than a decade, at the president's office of the Case Institution of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio. This work is his summary of his work.
Return to the Moon
Author | : Harrison Schmitt |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2007-12-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780387310640 |
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Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon—to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role—just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production—Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off.
The Birth of NASA The Diary of T Keith Glennan
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NASA:31769000640899 |
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