Une fenêtre (pop-into) d'information (contenu principal de Sensagent) est invoquée un double-clic sur n'importe quel mot de votre page web. While they were shaping the US manned space programme, his task force had to resist immense pressures from the military and science lobbies, which wanted to impose their agendas on the way space exploration was developed. You're looking at OpenBook, NAP.edu's online reading room since 1999.

In ''Aiming for the Stars: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age'' (Smithsonian Institution Press), Tom D. Crouch, senior curator of the National Air and Space Museum, wrote: ''Gilruth suggested that it might be easier and less expensive to expand the existing Langley Research Center. Robert R. Gilruth, an early leader of the American space program and director of the Johnson Space Center during the Apollo lunar landings, died yesterday in Charlottesville, Va. Robert Rowe Gilruth, (8 octobre 1913 à Nashwauk, Minnesota, États-Unis - 17 août 2000 à Charlottesville, Virginie, États-Unis) est un pionnier américain de l'aéronautique et de l'astronautique. Ready to take your reading offline? I made good use of that experience when I went to work for NACA…. For the first time Gilruth used his concept of “stick force per g,” which compares the pilot’s actions to the airplane’s reactions. Gilruth’s organization became known as PARD, the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division.  | Informations

Fourth Gilruth oral history interview, pp 24-25. About this time the famed French balloonist Jean Piccard joined Minnesota’s faculty. Third Gilruth oral history interview, p 44. Report 711, GWS Oral History Project, working history files, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. With W. N. Turner. According to Gilruth, “I was trying to design an airplane that was going to win the Thompson Trophy Race…. ing airplanes to fly high: “He said they’d be out of the thunderstorm belt, the air would be thinner, and you’d be able to go faster.”7 And he was right. tip vortices that are naturally produced there. This experience primed Gilruth for his future studies of high flight. As he put it, “We’d already flown to the moon many times. Work began on Project Mercury in 1959, when Gilruth recruited 34 other engineers and flight directors to the space task group, which was based at Langley, Virginia - better known today as "spooks corner", the headquarters of the CIA. Later that year they launched a 52-foot multi-hull sailboat, “The Outrigger,” designed and built by Gilruth in his spare time during the previous 10 years. Gilruth Center Policies & Code of Conduct. Dr. Gilruth has been honored with the highest awards given by the aerospace industry and academia -- most notable are the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award from the Institute of Aerospace Sciences, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Great Living American Award, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim International Astronautics Award of the International Academy of Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Award, the City of New York Medal of Honor, Spirit of St. Louis Medal by the American Society of Engineers, several NASA Distinguished Service Medals and the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Service. Robert Rowe Gilruth was born October 18, 1913, in Nashwauk, Minnesota. Beyond the limelight occupied by astronauts, flight directors and former German rocket scientists, the reticent and laconic Mr. Gilruth stood aside when the cheering started, puffing on his pipe.