ACE spacecraft, 107, 109f
Adams, John Couch, 132
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (ACA). See National Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
Aelita: Queen of Mars (movie), 115
Aerobraking, 119
AFSPC (Air Force Space Command), 44
Age
NASA workforce, 30, 31f
shuttle infrastructure, 67, 68(f4.11)
AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics), 50
Air Force, U.S.
Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), 44
Lunex project, 41
Man in Space Soonest (MISS) project, 41
Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), 72
primates in space, 42
reconnaissance satellites, 42
rocket research, 40
space shuttle program, 42
XSS satellites, 39-40
Aldrin, Edwin (Buzz), 22-23
ALH84001, 119
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 50
American Interplanetary Society. See American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Ames Research Center (ARC), 28
Ancient world, 1-2
Animals
Air Force space program, 42
Biosatellite program, 25
dog in space, first, 7
space casualties, 14
spiders in space, 72
Apollo program
Apollo-Soyuz docking project, 47, 47f
casualties, 9, 14, 22
end of, 23-24
launch configuration, 22f
missions, 24t
overview, 9
spacecraft, 21-24
Application satellites, 12-13
ARC (Ames Research Center), 28
Arecibo Observatory, 95
Ariane rockets, 49
ARISS astronaut interviews, 146-147
Armstrong, Neil, 9, 22-23
Army, U.S.
Explorer 1, 40
manned spaceflight program, 41
rocket research, 40
Art program, NASA, 147
ASI (Artemis Society International), 51
Astronauts
Apollo spacecraft, 24t
Gemini program, 21t
International Space Station (ISS), 85-86, 88t
interviews via amateur radio, 146-147
Mercury Seven, 9, 20t
pay rates, 34
public relations, 147-148
selection, 32-33, 34t
space shuttle crews, 31-32
Astronomy
coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 105, 105f
early study of, 2
solar flares, 104-105
solar wind, 102-103
sunspots, 103-104, 104(f6.9)
terminology, 95
See also Space observatories
ATK Thiokol Propulsion, 50
Auroras, 102-103, 105
Autour de la Lune (Verne), 2
Aviation history, 2, 3-4
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