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Author Arrighi, Robert S., 1969-

Title Revolutionary atmosphere : the story of the Altitude Wind Tunnel and Space Power Chambers / by Robert S. Arrighi.

Imprint Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of Communications, [2010]

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 Axe Federal Documents Online  NAS 1.21:2010-4319    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 392 pages) : illustrations.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series SP ; 2010-4319
NASA SP (Series) ; 4319.
Note Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 1, 2011).
Paper version available for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S.G.P.O.
"April 2010."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Premonition : the need for an engine tunnel (1936-1940) -- Building a new type of tunnel design and construction (1940-1943) ; Dual wartime mission : the World War II years (1944-1945) ; Age of the axial flow : alternate wartime mission (1944-1945) ; Will to power : the postwar era (1946-1949) ; A period of transition : big engines to small rockets (1950-1958) ; Space is the place : project Mercury (1959-1960) ; Metamorphosis : wind tunnel to vacuum chamber (1961-1963) ; Space power chambers join the fray : early centaur period (1963-1964) ; Ad astra per aspera : the Centaur/Surveyor missions (1964-1967) ; Alter destiny : Centaur's big payloads (1965-1975) ; Where the wave finally broke : the idle years (1975-2005) ; Death knell : the final days of the altitude wind tunnel/space power chambers (2005-2009).
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
Summary "A massive, but little-known, facility in Cleveland, Ohio, played a vital role in the U.S. development of jets, in the training of NASA's first astronauts, and in making NASA's first missions beyond Earth orbit possible. Revolutionary Atmosphere tells the story of this obscure giant. Starting life in 1944 as the Altitude Wind Tunnel, it was the first wind tunnel that could study aircraft engines under realistic flight conditions; and it was enormous-in its original configuration, it could even accommodate full-size aircraft. The tunnel could not only simulate the high speeds of jet aircraft, like other wind tunnels, but could simulate the pressures and temperatures of higher elevation flight."--Publisher description.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Altitude Wind Tunnel (Laboratory) -- History.
Space Power Chambers (Laboratory) -- History.
Altitude Wind Tunnel (Laboratory) (OCoLC)fst01775871
Space Power Chambers (Laboratory) (OCoLC)fst01793184
Aeronautics -- Research -- United States -- History.
Space vehicles -- Testing -- History.
Aeronautics -- Research. (OCoLC)fst00798376
Space vehicles -- Testing. (OCoLC)fst01128097
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author United States. NASA History Division.
Other Form: Print version: Arrighi, Robert S., 1969- Revolutionary atmosphere (DLC) 2009018841 (OCoLC)656833674
ISBN 9780160856419
0160856418
Gpo Item No. 0830-I (online)
Sudoc No. NAS 1.21:2010-4319

 
    
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