Book · August 10, 2021
"The book covers the Cold War origins of the military-industrial complex and explains its current relevance since the 9/11 terrorist attacks"-- ...
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Journal ArticleVulcan · January 1, 2020
In their papers prepared for this volume, Kelly DeVries and David Zimmerman explore the differing viewpoints on technological determinism that military historians bring to bear on premodern and modern warfare. This paper analyzes their respective arguments ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
The primary argument for manned spaceflight has always been prestige. The enthusiasm to put men in space began after Sputnik, when the Soviet Union seemed to have stolen a march on the United States. The John F. Kennedy Space Center was originally planned ...
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Book · November 2017
This is part of a two-book project created by the American Maritime History Project, Inc., an independent enterprise with an office at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. ...
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Book · 2016
Politics, economics, ideology, culture, strategy, tactics, and philosophy have all shaped war, but none of these factors has driven the evolution of warfare as much as technology. ...
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Book · March 7, 2013
THE EVOLUTION OF AERODYNAMICS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY: ENGINEERING OR SCIENCEQ INTRODUCTION The field of ... well as the use of this understanding in the design of flight vehicles, has grown exponentially during the twentiethcentury. ...
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Journal ArticleFutures · October 1, 2009
The voyages of Christopher Columbus are invoked by Americans more than any other historical analog to capture the ethos of the manned space program. A better analogy would be Leif Ericksson. He and his fellow Norsemen reached North America five centuries b ...
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Book · August 10, 2021
"The book covers the Cold War origins of the military-industrial complex and explains its current relevance since the 9/11 terrorist attacks"-- ...
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Journal ArticleVulcan · January 1, 2020
In their papers prepared for this volume, Kelly DeVries and David Zimmerman explore the differing viewpoints on technological determinism that military historians bring to bear on premodern and modern warfare. This paper analyzes their respective arguments ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
The primary argument for manned spaceflight has always been prestige. The enthusiasm to put men in space began after Sputnik, when the Soviet Union seemed to have stolen a march on the United States. The John F. Kennedy Space Center was originally planned ...
Full textCite
Book · November 2017
This is part of a two-book project created by the American Maritime History Project, Inc., an independent enterprise with an office at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York. ...
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Book · 2016
Politics, economics, ideology, culture, strategy, tactics, and philosophy have all shaped war, but none of these factors has driven the evolution of warfare as much as technology. ...
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Book · March 7, 2013
THE EVOLUTION OF AERODYNAMICS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY: ENGINEERING OR SCIENCEQ INTRODUCTION The field of ... well as the use of this understanding in the design of flight vehicles, has grown exponentially during the twentiethcentury. ...
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Journal ArticleFutures · October 1, 2009
The voyages of Christopher Columbus are invoked by Americans more than any other historical analog to capture the ethos of the manned space program. A better analogy would be Leif Ericksson. He and his fellow Norsemen reached North America five centuries b ...
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Book · 2008
The Way of the Ship tells the important story of the commercial transport of passengers and goods from port to port in American history and the ways in which it fueled the material and economic expansion of the country. ...
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Book · 2002
1 Robert Kahn : Visionary Robert Kahn was the godfather of Strategic Computing ( SC ) .1 He con- ceived the program as a source of patronage for his professional family . He developed a rationale that gave the program the political ... ...
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Book · February 28, 2001
All technologies are alike. The tension between likeness and difference runs through this collection of papers. All focus on atmospheric flight, a twentieth-century phenomenon. ...
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Journal ArticleSpace Policy · January 1, 1987
This article follows the story of Shuttle development, in the context of the history of the US space programme from Apollo to the Space Station. The Shuttle was chosen as one of a series of 'space spectaculars' and has proven to be prohibitively expensive ...
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Book · December 1, 1985
Throughout most of its history, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was arguably the most important and productive aeronautical research establishment in the world. This book examines the NACA as an institution, attempting to explain how ...
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Book · 1985
"Essays ... presented at a conference on the history of space activity held at Yale University on February 6 and 7, 1981"--Introduction. ...
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