NASA-AMES Research Center Publications

Summary

Title:

NASA-AMES Research Center Publications

Creators:

NASA-AMES Research Center

Extent:

4 linear ft.

Language:

English.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], NASA-AMES Research Center Publications, M1164, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains issues of internal publications, such as The Astrogram, and reports on NASA-AMES activities.

Biographical / historical:

The NASA-AMES Research Center was founded by NASA in 1941 to conduct experiments in advanced avionics, space vehicle design, robotic exploration of the solar system, and space medicine.

Date	Event
1941	AN XB-28 model being prepared for wind tunnel testing in 1941.
1943	Construction proceeds on the 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel in 1943 while a Navy patrol blimp hovers in the background.
1947	First to fly faster than the speed of sound-on October 14, 1947-the XS-1 with then Captain Charles Yeager at the controls.
1949	The Reeves Electronic Analog Computer (REAC), the first electronic computing machine at Ames, was acquired in 1949 to perform control simulation analyses.
1952	H. Julian Allen, Ames second director and the originator of the blunt-body concept used for the first Earth reentry vehicles (Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo).
1961	The famed rocket-powered X-15 aircraft was flown by Ames-Dryden to an altitude of 354,000 feet and 6.7 times the speed of sound.
1963	An early reentry vehicle concept, the M2F2, being tested for low speed landing in the 40x80 wind tunnel.
1965	Pioneer spacecraft begins planetary exploration.
1965-1968	First digital fly-by-wire aircraft control system in the United States.
1972	Artist concept of a Pioneer spacecraft over Jupiter. Both Pioneer 10 and 11 flew past that planet and returned the first close-up pictures.
1975	First flight of Kuiper C-141 Airborne Observatory infrared astronomy platform.
1976	First oblique-wing research aircraft.
1977	The XV-15 tilt-rotor-the efficiency of a fixed-wing, turboprop aircraft with the vertical flight capability of a helicopter-achieves high speed forward flight with vertical takeoff and landing.
1981	The Dryden Flight Research Facility, with numerous runways several miles long on its dry lake beds, is a major Space Shuttle landing site.
1985	Ultraviolt image of Halley's Comet obtained by pioneer venus when the comet was close to perihelion.
1989	Launching of the Galileo probe, designed at Ames. To descend into Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995.
1990	First lauch of the winded, 3-stage rocket Pegasus, from Ames B-52 aircraft. The first time a payload was launched by a privately developed space booster.
1991	One of a chain of sinkholes, whose detection by remote sensing imagery led to discovering the outline of a buried crater rim in the Yucatan Peninsula.
1995	Galileo Probe enters atmosphere of the giant planet Jupiter.

Custodial history:

Gift of Glenn Bugos, 2000.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Steven Mandeville-Gamble

Date Prepared:

© 1998

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: 2000 Nov. 12.

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