The Moon-Doggle: Domestic and International Implications of the Space Race

1968 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loyd S. Swenson ◽  
Amitai Etzioni ◽  
Harold Leland Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
The Moon ◽  
Space Race

The International Space Station

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Chris Nie
Keyword(s):  
International Space Station ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Space Station ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Moon ◽  
New Era ◽  
International Space ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Future Space ◽  
Technical Details

A new era of spaceflight dawned following the conclusion of the United States and Russian space race. This new era has been marked by the design, assembly, and operation of one of the greatest engineering feats mankind has accomplished, the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS is comprised of hundreds of thousands of kilograms of material built on the ground and transported to space for assembly. It houses an artificial atmosphere to sustain life in outer space and has been continually inhabited for over 15 years. This chapter describes the technical complexity of the ISS, the background of how it was assembled, its major systems, details of crew life onboard, commercial usage of the resource, and examples of mishaps that have occurred during the ISS's operation. The technical details of the ISS provide a glimpse into what future space stations that might orbit the Moon and Mars will resemble.

scholarly journals MILLIMETRE MOON MEASUREMENT: 50 YEARS OF LUNAR LASER RANGING SINCE APOLLO 11!

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B3-2020 ◽  
pp. 1105-1110
Author(s):  
J. F. Brock
Keyword(s):  
Laser Ranging ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Lunar Laser Ranging ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Lunar Laser ◽  
Space Star ◽  
Gravitational Influence ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
Set Up

Abstract. Since the dawn of time the Moon has held fascination for the earliest humans who saw it as a natural navigational beacon, a heavenly body to be revered and a poetic inspiration. Ancient art features the Moon as a prominent subject from all epochs and genres. The name “lunatic” infers that it drives men insane. Giant tides and rapid recessions of water are all attributed to its gravitational influence. As a young boy I was thrilled by stories of Moon travel like Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon” plus TV shows and movies such as “Lost in Space”, “Star Trek” and “Dr. Who.”The Russian-American “Space Race” focussed on the exciting possibility of man landing on the Moon. I cannot forget the live telecast of the Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon’s surface in 1969 when I was 13 years old. Four years later I decided to be a land boundary surveyor trained in precise measurement for land title creation. My curiosity was alerted to the Apollo 11 laser ranging aspect of the project when the US team set up a bank of retro-reflectors for measurements from powerful devices on the Earth in the same way we Earthly surveyors make our daily measurements using such EDM equipment.In this paper I will describe the techniques and equipment utilised during this accurate Moon positioning project. You will also see the Earth observatories still measuring to five sites on the Moon and some ancient admirable attempts to determine this distance.

Chemochromatische Himmelsereignisse. Aurora Borealis und ihre künstl/er\i/s\chen Schwestern

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-371
Author(s):  
Inge Hinterwaldner
Keyword(s):  
Political Resistance ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Aurora Borealis ◽  
Ecological Relevance ◽  
Space Race ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Space Art

AbstractWith the current renewed space race to the moon, space art, which is understood here as a variation of the Art & Technology movement, is also increasingly garnering attention. In the 1960s and 1970s, the artists Newton Harrison, Joe Davis, and Paulo Bruscky each independently pursued the goal of artificially creating a widely visible aurora. With their idea of placing floating colored light into the sky, they ventured into areas for which science could not yet offer any ready-made technologies. It was not clear whether – or how – these light phenomena could be created. The artists’ aspirations provoked considerable political resistance as well. The scale of the projects immediately revealed an ecological relevance. It was not until years later that a theoretical, new materialist framework was established that increased understanding of what these works explored.

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