What he doesn’t need to buy is Communicator – a software license for that program is included with Office ProPlus. President Kennedy said Americans would go to the moon before the end of the decade, and although he didn’t live to see that proclamation fulfilled, the Apollo Program rapidly took shape. Learn about sustainability efforts in place at Kennedy. Johnson Space Center research efforts span biology and biotechnology, Earth science, human research, physical science, technology, and more. When asked to name her greatest contribution to space exploration, Johnson would talk about the calculations that helped synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Module with the lunar-orbiting Command and Service Module. Vanessa E. Wyche is the director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, home to America’s astronaut corps, Mission Control Center, International Space Station, Orion and Gateway programs and its more than 11,000 civil service and contractor employees. The first X-15 arrived at the NASA High-Speed Flight Station in the early months of 1959, and Scott Crossfield, who had helped with the design of the aircraft, soon began the contractor demonstration flights. One of the primary goals of NASA’s Aeronautics Enterprise was the development and demonstration of technologies for air-breathing hypersonic flight.

Generally, pilots used one of two types of flight profiles — a speed profile that called for the pilot to maintain a level altitude until time for descent to a landing, and a high-altitude flight plan that required maintaining a steep rate of climb until reaching altitude and then descending. Neil A. Armstrong served as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952 before joining the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in 1955. Later that year, he transferred to the NACA’s High-Speed Flight Station in Edwards, California, as an aeronautical research scientist and then as a pilot, a position he held until becoming an astronaut in 1962. He was one of nine NASA astronauts in the second class to be chosen. A North American team headed by Chief Project Engineer Charles Feltz designed the aircraft, with technical guidance from the NACA’s Langley Aeronautical Laboratory (later NASA’s Langley Research Center), Hampton, VA, and High-Speed Flight Station (as Dryden was then called). The Rogers Dry Lake adjacent to Edwards and Dryden was the intended landing location for all flights, but there were numerous emergency lakebeds selected in advance for emergency landings. There are 10 NASA centers across the United States.

There are basically 2 possibilities either I’m having a 1:1 meeting with someone (where we just use their webcam / laptop microphone), or I’m in a group meeting and we use a conference room’s A/V setup. Use of the three X-15 aircraft as testbeds to carry a wide variety of experimental packages. During its research program, the aircraft set unofficial world speed and altitude records of 4,520 mph (Mach 6.7—on Oct. 3, 1967, with Air Force pilot Pete Knight at the controls) and 354,200 feet (on Aug. 22, 1963, with NASA pilot Joseph Walker in the cockpit). Located near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Glenn’s main campus, Lewis Field, has world-class facilities including wind tunnels, drop towers, vacuum chambers, and a research aircraft hangar. Glenn’s world-renowned test facilities bring NASA, military, and private industry customers to Ohio. NASA links to many Web sites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. Flexible and customizable, always private and secure.

Published with Glenn’s staff, partners, and collaborators in mind, each monthly issue features news about how Glenn revolutionizes air travel, advances space exploration, and improves life on Earth. Kennedy plays a vital role in supporting science, technology, exploration, and human space flight. Goddard is NASA’s premiere space flight complex and home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe. By 1960, the Missile Firing Laboratory had become an extension of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. All launches in Florida begin their journey on the launch pads of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station or Kennedy Space Center. WN: Wouldn’t it be more difficult for NASA to privatize the shuttle while the space station is still under construction? The mission operations team enables the men and women living and working aboard the space station to achieve their mission goals and to fly safely. The maiden voyage of an Apollo crew came on Oct. 11, 1968, as Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham lifted off from Launch Complex 34 aboard a Saturn-IB for the Apollo 7 Earth orbital mission. “A number of things have coalesced to create what is termed the SmallSat and CubeSat revolution,” says Christopher Baker, Small Spacecraft Technology program executive within NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.