Before This Decade Is Out

2013-05-13

Out of this Committee's recommendations, the Space Task Group prepared a program plan. They presented this plan, as I mentioned before, to the NASA Research Centers, with primary emphasis on informing the centers of the kinds of ...

Author: Glen E. Swanson

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

ISBN: 9780486270371

Category: Science

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Oral histories by 14 participants in the Apollo program include comments by James Webb, Thomas O. Paine, Wernher von Braun, and astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Charles Duke. 69 black-and-white illustrations.
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Before this Decade is Out

1999

Out of this Committee's recommendations , the Space Task Group prepared a program plan . They presented this plan , as I mentioned before , to the NASA Research Centers , with primary emphasis on informing the centers of the kinds of ...

Author: Glen E. Swanson

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ISBN: UIUC:30112047207359

Category: Aerospace engineers

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Reaching the Moon

2020-07-15

" This volume takes readers on the journey through the amazing successes and heartbreaking tragedies of astronauts trying to reach the moon, complete with NASA and historical photographs correlating with the stellar narrative.

Author: Michael Rajczak

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ISBN: 1538258765

Category: Moon

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Alan Shepard Jr. became the first American in space in 1961. His fifteen-minute mission showed that humans could survive a wild ride atop a rocket. In a speech to Congress just 20 days later, President John F. Kennedy declared "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." This volume takes readers on the journey through the amazing successes and heartbreaking tragedies of astronauts trying to reach the moon, complete with NASA and historical photographs correlating with the stellar narrative.
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Apollo and America s Moon Landing Program Before This Decade Is Out Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program NASA SP 4223 by Von Braun Kranz Lunney Duke Schmitt Low Faget Webb

2017-08-18

I am pleased that the comments of some of the key individuals involved in Project Apollo are being preserved by NASA and made available through this book. The people who are quoted in this book were among the top leaders of NASA.

Author: World Spaceflight News

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ISBN: 1549534173

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This official NASA history document provides enlightening tales about the Apollo lunar landing program by those who were there: astronauts (Duke and Schmitt), managers and scientists (von Braun, Webb, Paine, Gilruth, Mueller, Low, Faget, Rogers, Guin), and a protocol assistant who accompanied the Apollo 11 on their whirlwind presidential goodwill mission (Barnes). From the foreword by Christopher Kraft: For a project as massive as the Apollo program, history may distance itself to the extent where modern interpretation distills a feeling that such events took place without extensive human involvement. Nothing could be further removed from the truth. Through the verbal accounts offered by the oral histories such as presented in this volume, we are reintroduced to the critical human factor which is the essence of any history. People made Apollo happen and it is important to preserve their thoughts, feelings, and recollections for future generations. The oral histories presented in this volume offer a sample of what NASA has done to preserve the story of Apollo as part of our nation's human spaceflight heritage. The accounts included in this book are a small sampling of the large number of oral histories that have been conducted under the auspices of the NASA history program, since near the beginning of the Agency. They also represent the many personal contributions made during Project Apollo, the single largest peacetime endeavor in American history. These recollections span the origins, management, and completion of that enormous effort and measurably enhance our appreciation of its difficulty. I am pleased that the comments of some of the key individuals involved in Project Apollo are being preserved by NASA and made available through this book. The people who are quoted in this book were among the top leaders of NASA. All of them played a prominent part in the conduct and accomplishments of Apollo. As one of those who knew and watched these individuals lead, I have a particular sense of their statements. I always had the feeling of having been granted a special privilege to participate and work on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. The contents of this book reveal that these people had similar experiences. They all recognized that it took literally thousands of dedicated people to bring these efforts to fruition and that it was up to them to provide the necessary leadership to allow all of the workers on the project to accomplish their tasks. It was a wondrous thing to watch. Anyone interested in the underlying strength of NASA in this time period will find these accounts a fascinating read.
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Before This Decade Is Out Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program

2012-07-12

July 1999 marks the 30th anniversary of the epochal lunar landing of Apollo 11 in the summer of 1969.

Author: Glen Swanson

Publisher: CreateSpace

ISBN: 1478233664

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July 1999 marks the 30th anniversary of the epochal lunar landing of Apollo 11 in the summer of 1969. Although President John F. Kennedy had made a public commitment on May 25, 1961, to land an American on the Moon by the end of decade, up until that time Apollo had been all promise.
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Return to the Moon

2007-12-28

244±245; Duke, C. M., 1999, Interview, in G. E. Swanson, editor, 1999, Before this Decade is Out ..., NASA SP-4223,.p. 251. 18. Brooks, C. G., J. M. Grimwood, and L. S. SwensonJr, 1979, Chariots for Apollo, NASA History Series, ...

Author: Harrison Schmitt

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9780387310640

Category: Science

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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.
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The Decision to Go to the Moon

1976

""The thoroughness of this book as a historical record is evident throughout.

Author: John M. Logsdon

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ISBN: UOM:49015001335422

Category: Astronautics and state

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The decision announced by John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961, initiating the expedition to the moon, is now documented in full for future students of history. To John Logsdon, whose approach is that of a political scientist examining the influence of men and events on the decision-making process, the decision to land a man on the moon "before this decade is out" was wholly political rather than military, although overtones of implied defense were useful in obtaining congressional support. Moreover, he notes it was made without the support of the scientific community, although their previous research efforts were expected partially to offset this deterrent.Although the success of the Russian manned orbit and the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs invasion certainly influenced the timing, in the author's interpretation the Kennedy decision manages to escape the narrow definition of a public relations exhibition. In Kennedy's view, he emphasizes, the security of the country itself was inseparably linked to a position of prestige in world opinion. Nor was he a particular enthusiast of space exploration for its own rewards. As he remarked to one of his advisors, "If you had a scientific spectacular on this earth that would be more useful--say desalting the ocean--or something just as dramatic and convincing as space, then we would do "that.""The thoroughness of this book as a historical record is evident throughout. NASA historical records and government documents not previously released, including several Presidential papers, are used in the analysis, and the author weaves these records together with subtleties of opinion from interviews with NASA officials and such Kennedy advisors as Theodore Sorenson, McGeorge Bundy, David Bell, and Jerome Wiesner.
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Mission oriented R I Policies

2018

Apollo was a program in the 1960s designed to land an American on the Moon and return safely to Earth.

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ISBN: OCLC:1060868947

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Apollo was a program in the 1960s designed to land an American on the Moon and return safely to Earth. It was announced by President John F. Kennedy on May 1961 in a speech on Urgent National Needs billed as a second State of the Union message. He said: "I believe this Nation should commitment itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
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Landing On Moon

2021-08-02

This book examines the origins behind the missions, the space probes involved, and the historic results. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Ranger Program like never before.

Author: Norberto Cilley

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ISBN: 9798548153869

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On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and asked the nation to "commit itself to achieve the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Given America's inability to even put a man in orbit yet, this seemed like an overly ambitious goal, and it isn't even clear that Kennedy himself believed it possible; after all, he was reluctant to meet NASA Administrator James E. Webb's initial funding requests. This book examines the origins behind the missions, the space probes involved, and the historic results. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Ranger Program like never before.
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Lunar Surface Traits

2021-08-02

This book examines the origins behind the missions, the space probes involved, and the historic results. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Ranger Program like never before.

Author: Rozanne Lumbard

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ISBN: 9798548172310

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Page: 60

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On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and asked the nation to "commit itself to achieve the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Given America's inability to even put a man in orbit yet, this seemed like an overly ambitious goal, and it isn't even clear that Kennedy himself believed it possible; after all, he was reluctant to meet NASA Administrator James E. Webb's initial funding requests. This book examines the origins behind the missions, the space probes involved, and the historic results. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Ranger Program like never before.
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