Most lifting bodies, or "flying bathtubs" as they were called, were so ugly only an engineer could love them, and yet, what an elegant way to keep wings from burning off in supersonic flight between earth and orbit. Working in their spare time (because they couldn't initially get official permission), Dale Reed and his team of engineers demonstrated the potential of the design that led to the Space Shuttle.
 Wingless Flight takes us behind the scenes with just the right blend of technical information and fascinating detail (the crash of M2-F2 found new life as the opening credit for TV's "The Six Million Dollar Man"). The flying bathtub, itself, is finding new life as the proposed escape-pod for the Space Station.

Wingless Flight : The Lifting Body Story (Nasa Sp, 4220)

Engineering & Transportation

Reed, R. Dale

Lister, Darlene

Reed, Dale R.

Transportation

Natl Aeronautics & Space Admin

The NASA Technical Reports Servcr (NTRS) houses half a million publications that are a valuable means of information to researchers, teachers, students, and the general public. These documents are all aerospace related with much scientific and technical information created or funded by NASA. Some types of documents include conference papers, research reports, meeting papers, journal articles and more. This is one of those documents.

Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000 (Monographs in Aerospace History)

Siddiqi, Asif A.

Hypersonics is the study of flight at speeds where aerodynamic heating dominates the physics of the problem. It is an engineering science with close links to supersonics and engine design. Within this field, many of the most important results have been experimental. The principal facilities have been wind tunnels and related devices, which have produced flows with speeds up to orbital velocity. Why is this important? Hypersonics has had two major applications. The first has been to provide thermal protection during atmospheric reentry. Success in this enterprise has supported ballistic-missile nose cones, has returned strategic reconnaissance photos from orbit and astronauts from the Moon, and has even dropped an instrument package into the atmosphere of Jupiter. The second application has involved high-speed propulsion and has sought to develop the scramjet as an advanced airbreathing ramjet. Atmospheric entry today is fully mature as an engineering discipline, but work with its applications continues to reach for new achievements. Studies of scramjets still seek full success, in which such engines can accelerate a vehicle without the use of rockets. Hence, there is much to do in this area as well.

Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics (The Nasa History Series)

Business & Money

HEPPENHEIMER, T.A.

Education & Reference

The major portion of the book focuses on the applications of the techniques to generic configurations for general research as well as to specific aircraft and spacecraft configurations. Important lessons learned are also reviewed. A brief review of the special dynamic force tests that usually accompany free-flight tests is provided, and the document concludes with the author's perspective on potential future opportunities and requirements in free-flight model testing

Modeling Flight: The Role of Dynamically Scaled Free-flight Models in Support of Nasa's Aerospace Program

National Aeronautics And Space Administration

NASA SP-2003-535. Edited by Jay C. Buckey, Jr., and Jerry L. Homick. Describes the experiments done on Neurolab and their results. Includes technical reports on interesting procedures or equipment developed for the flight and perspectives of the crewmembers on the Neurolab Spacelab mission.

The Neurolab Spacelab Mission: Neuroscience Research in Space : Results from the Sts-90, Neurolab Spacelab Mission

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

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