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Not yet imagined : a study of Hubble Space Telescope operations / by Gainor, Chris,author.(CARDINAL)687496; United States.NASA History Program Office,issuing body.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-379) and index.Prologue : Launching the Hubble Space Telescope -- A troubled history -- Spherical aberration -- The road to recovery -- The power of the image -- New instruments and new directions -- The universe turned inside out -- The fall and rise of Hubble's last servicing mission -- Operating the Hubble Space Telescope -- Astronomy : A science transformed -- The world's most famous telescope.

Subjects: Space Telescope History Project (U.S.); Space telescopes;

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Going beyond : the space exploration initiative and the challenges of organizational change at NASA / by Logsdon, John M.,1937-author.(CARDINAL)287947; United States.NASA History Office (2023- ),issuing body.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."This account describes attempts during the administration of President George H. W. Bush (1989-1993) to force a reluctant NASA bureaucracy to adopt what one policy analyst called "new ways of thinking," in the years following the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger accident"--

Subjects: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Organizational change;

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The Martian landscape / by Viking Lander Imaging Team.(CARDINAL)288448; Mutch, Thomas A.,1931-(CARDINAL)141316; United States.National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Scientific and Technical Information Office.(CARDINAL)289818;

Subjects: Viking Mars Program (U.S.);

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Archaeology, anthropology, and interstellar communication / by Vakoch, Douglas A.,editor.(CARDINAL)801834; United States.NASA History Program Office.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 2. Historical perspectives on SETI. SETI : the NASA years / John Billingham -- A political history of NASA's SETI program / Stephen J. Garber -- The role of anthropology in SETI : a historical view / Steven J. Dick.pt. 3. Archaeological analogues. A tale of two analogues : learning at a distance from the Ancient Greeks and Maya and the problem of deciphering extraterrestrial radio transmissions / Ben Finney and Jerry Bentley -- Beyond Linear B : the metasemiotic challenge of communication with extraterrestrial intelligence / Richard Saint-Gelais -- Learning to read : interstellar message decipherment from archaeological and anthropological perspectives / Kathryn E. Denning -- Inferring intelligence : prehistoric and extraterrestrial / Paul K. Wason.pt. 4. Anthropology, culture, and communication. Anthropology at a distance : SETI and the production of knowledge in the encounter with an extraterrestrial other / John W. Traphagan -- Contact considerations : a cross-cultural perspective / Douglas Raybeck -- Culture and communication with extraterrestrial intelligence / John W. Traphagan -- Speaking for Earth : projecting cultural values across deep space and time / Albert A. Harrison.pt. 5. The evolution and embodiment of extraterrestrials. The evolution of extraterrestrials : the evolutionary synthesis and estimates of the prevalence of intelligence beyond Earth / Douglas A. Vakoch -- Biocultural prerequisites for the development of interstellar communication / Garry Chick -- Ethology, ethnology, and communication with extraterrestrial intelligence / Dominique Lestel -- Constraints on message construction for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence / William H. Edmondson.

Subjects: Life on other planets.; Extraterrestrial anthropology.; Interstellar communication.; Exobiology.; Archaeoastronomy.; Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.); United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration;

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50 years of solar system exploration : historical perspectives / by Solar System Exploration @ 50(2012 :Washington, D.C.),author.; Billings, Linda,editor.; United States.NASA History Division,issuing body.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-335) and index."To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, Mariner 2 sent to Venus in 1962, the NASA History Program Office, the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory organized a symposium. "Solar System Exploration @ 50" was held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. The purpose of this symposium was to consider, over the more than 50-year history of the Space Age, what we have learned about the other bodies of the solar system and the processes by which we have learned it. Symposium organizers asked authors to address broad topics relating to the history of solar system exploration such as various flight projects, the development of space science disciplines, the relationship between robotic exploration and human spaceflight, the development of instruments and methodologies for scientific exploration, as well as the development of theories about planetary science, solar system origins and implications for other worlds. The papers in this volume provide a richly textured picture of important developments - and some colorful characters - in a half century of solar system exploration. A comprehensive history of the first 50 years of solar system exploration would fill many volumes. What readers will find in this volume is a collection of interesting stories about money, politics, human resources, commitment, competition and cooperation, and the "faster, better, cheaper" era of solar system exploration"--

Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Astronautics; Planets; Space flight; Space sciences;

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We could not fail : the first African Americans in the Space Program / by Paul, Richard,1959-author.(CARDINAL)409441; Moss, Steven,1962-author.(CARDINAL)409442;

Includes bibliographical references and index.A man of firsts: Julius Montgomery -- "There was a lot of history there": Theodis Ray -- Stronger than steel: Frank Crossley -- Dixie's role in the Space Age -- First of race in space: Ed Dwight -- The view from space: George Carruthers -- "Huntsville, it has always been unique": Delano Hyder and Richard Hall -- The country spartacus: Clyde Foster -- Water walkers: Morgan Watson and George Bourda -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Relevant census numbers on employed professional and skilled labor for NASA host states."The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal employment opportunity laws to open workplaces at NASA and NASA contractors to African Americans while creating thousands of research and technology jobs in the Deep South to ameliorate poverty. We Could Not Fail tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of how shooting for the stars helped to overcome segregation on earth. Richard Paul and Steven Moss profile ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrate the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. They recount how these technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate surmounted barriers to move, in some cases literally, from the cotton fields to the launching pad. The authors vividly describe what it was like to be the sole African American in a NASA work group and how these brave and determined men also helped to transform Southern society by integrating colleges, patenting new inventions, holding elective office, and reviving and governing defunct towns. Adding new names to the roster of civil rights heroes and a new chapter to the story of space exploration, We Could Not Fail demonstrates how African Americans broke the color barrier by competing successfully at the highest level of American intellectual and technological achievement."--Publisher description.

Subjects: Biographies.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; African American professional employees; African American engineers; African American astronauts; Discrimination in employment; Race discrimination;

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