Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Historical Note
Timeline
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: NASA-AMES Research Center Publications
Collection number: Special Collections M1164
Creator:
NASA-AMES Research Center
Extent:
4 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Gift of Glenn Bugos, 2000.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], NASA-AMES Research Center Publications, M1164, Dept. of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Historical Note
The NASA-AMES Research Center was founded by NASA in 1941 to conduct experiments in advanced avionics, space vehicle design,
robotic exploration of the solar system, and space medicine.
Timeline
1941 |
AN XB-28 model being prepared for wind tunnel testing in 1941. |
1943 |
Construction proceeds on the 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel in 1943 while a Navy patrol blimp hovers in the background. |
1947 |
First to fly faster than the speed of sound-on October 14, 1947-the XS-1 with then Captain Charles Yeager at the controls. |
1949 |
The Reeves Electronic Analog Computer (REAC), the first electronic computing machine at Ames, was acquired in 1949 to perform
control simulation analyses.
|
1952 |
H. Julian Allen, Ames second director and the originator of the blunt-body concept used for the first Earth reentry vehicles
(Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo).
|
1961 |
The famed rocket-powered X-15 aircraft was flown by Ames-Dryden to an altitude of 354,000 feet and 6.7 times the speed of
sound.
|
1963 |
An early reentry vehicle concept, the M2F2, being tested for low speed landing in the 40x80 wind tunnel. |
1965 |
Pioneer spacecraft begins planetary exploration. |
1965-1968 |
First digital fly-by-wire aircraft control system in the United States. |
1972 |
Artist concept of a Pioneer spacecraft over Jupiter. Both Pioneer 10 and 11 flew past that planet and returned the first close-up
pictures.
|
1975 |
First flight of Kuiper C-141 Airborne Observatory infrared astronomy platform. |
1976 |
First oblique-wing research aircraft. |
1977 |
The XV-15 tilt-rotor-the efficiency of a fixed-wing, turboprop aircraft with the vertical flight capability of a helicopter-achieves
high speed forward flight with vertical takeoff and landing.
|
1981 |
The Dryden Flight Research Facility, with numerous runways several miles long on its dry lake beds, is a major Space Shuttle
landing site.
|
1985 |
Ultraviolt image of Halley's Comet obtained by pioneer venus when the comet was close to perihelion. |
1989 |
Launching of the Galileo probe, designed at Ames. To descend into Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995. |
1990 |
First lauch of the winded, 3-stage rocket Pegasus, from Ames B-52 aircraft. The first time a payload was launched by a privately
developed space booster.
|
1991 |
One of a chain of sinkholes, whose detection by remote sensing imagery led to discovering the outline of a buried crater rim
in the Yucatan Peninsula.
|
1995 |
Galileo Probe enters atmosphere of the giant planet Jupiter. |
Scope and Content
The collection contains issues of internal publications, such as The Astrogram, and reports on NASA-AMES activities.