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... fandom honored Willy Ley as a person of excellence. ---- Willy Ley – Berliner, Rocket Pioneer, Space Historian by Dr. Wolfgang Both , Berlin "Ideas, like large Rivers, never have just one Source." This ... these developments but he himself accompanied and drove them forward. He was also a recognized historian of space exploration. Numerous works, starting with the "Outline of a History of the Rocket ...

... scenarios. These approaches may be flawed due to the radically different approaches traditional scientists and historians have adopted to their subjects and the possibility that human society and consciousness is the ... , the consilience offered by sociobiology on the one hand and a more speculative approach by historians to their subject on the other means that a fertile cross-pollination between the humanities ...

... as NASA's Chief Historian, to succeed Roger D. Launius , who had departed in July 2002 to become Historian of the National Air and Space Museum. An astronomer and historian of science, Dick had served as the first Historian of the U.S. Naval Observatory ... of the History of Astronomy Commission of the International Astronomical Union. (NASA, “NASA Names New Historian,” news release 03-327, 10 October 2003, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/oct ...

... or the significance concerning the mobility of mankind in space today and tomorrow . . . . "To the historian, the closing of the present kindergarten era of astronautics, with its tender philosophy, offers the ... as well as the humanitarianism and the technological boom of the twentieth century . . . ." ''(Text; Airpower Historian 1/64, 6-10)'' U.S.S.R. announced launching of POLET I (Flight I ...

... . (JSC Releases 76-12, 76-14) Louis Morton, one of the foremost U.S. military historians and chairman of NASA's historical advisory committee from 1970 to 1973, died at the ... a coordinating office for the federal government's entire historical program with a chief government historian. Based at Dartmouth College, where since 1960 he had been teacher, writer, and administrator, Morton ... been with the Army's office of military history from 1946 to 1959, serving as historian, then as deputy chief and chief of the Pacific branch; he was editor of an ...

... what led to his conclusion to do that. I guess I've been persuaded by historians that it wouldn't have been his first choice, but he didn't find any ... efforts of our team as a team is that usually, because we're all oral historians, at the end of our oral history, the person who is facilitating usually asks the ... 't get a chance to talk about — would you object if I asked our space historians if they have a question or two for you? '''Armstrong:''' Okay. '''Carol''' '''Butler:''' I have ...

... trigger that moves the toad from torpor into overdrive—opportunity. Nearly 100 years ago, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner proposed his influential Frontier Hypothesis. (7) The existence of the American frontier ... , Vol. 2, p. 731. (9) A.L. Rowse, The Expansion of Elizabethan England. Cambridge University historian Eric Walker agrees with Rowse's assessment. (Eric A. Walker, The British Empire: Its Structure ...

... us. We had a wide variety of people come in and do that—everything from historians to engineers and other kinds of folks—but it worked really, really well. '''Wright:''' And ... a full-time intern with USRA Universities Space Research Association and now is the JSC Historian. It's been a great effort there. '''Ross:''' Yes, it's a win-win situation ... , they moved down here. Clay came down, and Clay's a writer. He's a historian, had done some children's books. He was helping us. I guess you all talked ...

... out what is an exhibit; so we talk to the exhibits people, and then the historians, and then the artists, so it becomes a whole different ballgame. I’ve been dealing ... years consistently, nonstop. Here comes this totally different kind of people. Painters, artists, exhibits people, historians. So, what is an exhibit? We go through circles of first my education on what ... to make that movie for exactly 30 minutes.” We worked on the script, got the historians and exhibits people to work on the script of the film “To Fly ” Have you ...

... creative turmoil which is such an inescapable part of the age in which we live " Historian A. Hunter Dupree, professor of history at the Univ. of California (Berkeley) and a consultant ... be a mistake. ''(Simons, Wash, Post, 6/16/65; AFOSR Release 5-65-2; Aerospace Historian, 10/65, 106110)'' An artificial frog's eye which could be sent to the surface ...

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