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... author of several books, including: ''Prelude to the Space Age: The Rocket Societies 1924-1940'' (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983); ''Comet Watch: The Return of Halley’s Comet'' (Lerner Publications, ... of Museums. This was a cultural exchange in which he conducted research in Australia during January-February 2003, with additional related research visits to Laos and Thailand, in work towards ...

... on the role of photographer. In June 1937 he became Treasurer of the MIS. In January 1938 he resigned from the MIS along with Founder Eric Burgess and went off to ... war. Cusack studied as a Wireless operator and joined the British Merchant Navy in October 1940. His first voyage was as third radio operator traveling from Liverpool to New York aboard the merchantman "Oakcrest." At 4.16 am on November 23rd 1940 his ship was straggling behind their convoy and was attacked by U-123 with one ...

... College at the time, in mechanical engineering, and because jobs were scarce in Texas in 1940, I came to California and got a job with North American Aviation Inc. , October 3, 1940. I was in the design group and worked on airplanes such as the A-2J, ... should go back to Downey as president of the Shuttle Division… I think it was January of 1980, and I held that job until I retired in '81, directly after the ...

... and graduated as part of the class of 1938. In 1940-41 he studied Applied Science at University of Toronto. In January 1943 he won a prize for his paper "Underground Gasification ... (March 1948) Media:1953 Stehling Earth Scanning.pdf Earth Scanning Techniques For Orbital Rocket Vehicles (January 1953 Media:1961_Stehling_Moon.pdf Man's Lunar Arrival Certain This Decade (August 1961 ...

... then appeared in the publications of Ufa film company and in daily newspapers. In mid-January 1929 they met on the film set in the Ufa studios in Neubabelsberg. The inventor ... and other authors in the USA, among others Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. In January, 1939 in one SF meeting on Long Island he made a presentation. These contacts he ... 1940 he took over the editorship of the New York newspaper PM. Here he got to know his wife Olga, a Russian exile. They married on Christmas Eve in 1941. In January ...

... :''' I went to Georgia Tech. I was in the class of '44, actually, started in 1940, and because the war had started in '41, we went through an accelerated program, and ... flights, and mine and my wife's were, I think, around early January. We came down here in January to look at the area and look for homes and building sites and all that kind of stuff. As I recall, that January was one of the coldest Januaries that I think Houston had experienced in many, many years. Temperatures got ...

... , scheduled to he launched in three years. Endeavour , scheduled for its first 1993 launch in January, was to conduct extravehicular activities involving station assembly and maintenance; a 10-hour test shut ... modern air, as signaled by the presence of Chlorofluorocarbons, which were first manufactured in the 1940s. Scientists hoped to compare the chemistry of the old air with modern air in order ... Delta rocket rather than a more expensive Atlas rocket. (NY Times, Jan 12/93) 1993 January 1993 January Jan 1 1993 1 Jan 2 1993 2 Jan 3 1993 3 Jan 4 ...

... was finalised on December 1st 1945. J.P. Bickell was the first company chairman. By January 1946 the company had announced that it would be designing and building a jet-propelled ... took over the Crown Corporation Turbo Research Limited in the late 1940s. Turbo Research built the Chinook gas turbine engine. By January 1948 Turbo Research employed 450 people. Also in 1948 plans ... CF-100 had been flown for the first time by Squadron Leader Bill Waterton on January 19th 1950; powered by two Rolls Royce Avon engines. At the time it was the ...

... dates back to 1926, the rocket pioneering days of Robert Goddard. ref 5 In the 1940s this was followed by the illustrious V-2, also known as the A-4, designed ... , ''Opportunity'' , on July 7, 2003 (see Figure 9.15). Spirit landed in Gusev crater on January 4, 2004; Opportunity landed in the Meridiani Planum on the opposite side of Mars from Spirit, on January 25, 2004. The hardware design concept of these twin rovers follows that of the Mars ...

... Rocket Apparatus Media:Goddard US2286908.pdf 1940 Auxiliary Turbine for rocket craft Media:Goddard US2307125.pdf 1940 Launching Apparatus for rocket craft Media:Goddard US2395113.pdf 1940 Mechanism for feeding combustion liquids to rocket apparatus Media:Goddard US2395405.pdf 1940 Landing Apparatus for rocket craft ...

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