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... '''Wright:''' Today is November 10, 1999. This oral history session is being conducted with Dorothy B. Lee, who is known as Dottie to her friends and her colleagues, for the Johnson ... . There are no theories that can predict boundary layer transition. It's been a nemesis to all aerothermodynamicists. I used those words when I was a chair at a session at Langley. So ... concepts? '''Lee:''' Well, by that time I'm here in Houston, because we were still flying Mercury when I came down here. It was a natural transition. The aerothermodynamic— one of the first ...

... , it was a place to take them, particularly the first suborbitals, of Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Virgil I. Gus Grissom's flights. That is also where we would take them for ... be made, but I didn’t want a lackadaisical attitude in here, because that sort of drives me crazy. The transition period was very difficult for me, again, because I was constantly looking over my shoulder, and I thought, boy, I’ve been here all this time, and I haven’t done anything. I was ...

... do you think was your most challenging milestone while working for NACA? '''Kehlet:''' Well, I think the transition from building the hardware and testing it to using more and more outside vendors ... hobby that I got paid for. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Let’s talk about the transition from NACA to NASA. Can you talk about that and its impact on your career? '''Kehlet:''' I don’t ... contracts, so if you won A, then you had to win B, and then we had to win B Prime, and then B Double Prime, and then finally C, which was the hardware ...

... H. Glenn Jr. flew his Mercury mission, and I stood out in a misty rain on Pennsylvania Avenue, watching him and Lyndon B. Johnson drive down Pennsylvania Avenue in their parade that Washington, D.C., gave to welcome him. I went back into my office and called ... you handling basically correspondence, just follow-up correspondence? '''Barnes:''' On that mission, on that trip, I was just handling follow-up correspondence, thank-you letters and helping the State Department with ...

... . '''Fendell:''' Right. '''Rusnak:''' Do you remember anything else from that mission specifically? '''Fendell:''' Seven? '''Rusnak:''' I know there were some issues between the crew and flight control. '''Fendell:''' Yes, if you ... Director of Flight Ops. I also, unknown to me, had come in and had locked my keys in the car. So we got in there, and Gary B. Scott, who worked for ... Apollo 14 you've got Al Alan B. Shepard Jr. heading up the next successful mission. Any particular memories of him? '''Fendell:''' Well, Al and I were pretty good friends. Okay? And ...

... participated in these high level discussions, except a foray into Pugwash and government advisory mechanisms, I have been a "bird on the perch" watching the machinations. It is this experience that ... appears deceptively appealing, but the track record is not there to justify actually doing so. ''' I have declared above that we shouldn't get a grade on our performance with Major ... others can't see, and stimulate action where otherwise there would be no action. ''' Hylan B. Lyon About the Author ''' Extracted from the book ''Beyond Earth - The Future of Humans in ...

... for Advent," "Ranger Spacecraft Power System," "Power Supply for the Tiros I Meteorological Satellite," "Development of the Power Supply for the Transit Satellite," "Solar Thermionic Electric Power System," "Sunflower Power Conversion System ... Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961.'' by Frederick I. Ordway III Category:Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology by Frederick ...

... Survey," "The Post-launch Performance of the Tiros 1 Satellite," and "Space Transport by In-transit Rendezvous Techniques." See 1961 entry under same editor for complete volume. Extracted from the ... with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961.'' by Frederick I. Ordway III Category:Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology by ...

... in the Hohman transfer orbit crossing the orbits of Earth and Mars, where personnel in transit between Earth and Mars may live safely on the several-month journey. Oases need not ... .iep.utm.edu/a/anaximan.htm The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy '''About the Authors''' Edward B. Kiker Richard S. Kirby

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