iv, 195 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits (some color) ; 27 cm
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Note
"SP-2017-07-100-LaRC"--Back cover.
"This pictorial history, our 100th Anniversary book, uses images to tell the history of Langley in vivid detail, from our inception in 1917 as Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory right up to the present day."--Foreword.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 192).
Contents
Plot 16: A difficult time (1915-1919) -- Birth and breakthroughs (1920-1929) -- Shaping the airplane (1930-1939) -- The war years (1940-1949) -- NASA is born (1950-1959) -- Glory days (1960-1969) -- Space exploration (1970-1979) -- Faster, higher, farther, and safer (1980-1989) -- A new direction (1990-1999) -- A new century (2000-2009) -- Toward the future (2010-2017).
