Conference on Space, Science, and Urban Life: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Oakland, California, March 28-30, 1963, Supported by the Ford Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Cooperation with the University of California and the City of OaklandOffice of Scientific and Technical Information, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1963 - 254 sider |
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Side 95 - Every thread in the fabric of our economic, social and political institutions is being tested as we move into space. Our economic and political relations with other nations are being reevaluated. Old concepts of defense and military tactics are being challenged and revised. Jealously guarded traditions in our educational institutions are being tested, altered, and even discarded. Our economic institutions — the corporate structure itself — are undergoing reexamination as society seeks to adjust...
Side 74 - To paraphrase a statement William James made at Stanford early in this century, "The world . . . has now begun to see that the wealth of a nation consists more than anything else in the number of superior men that it harbors.
Side 30 - Space science calls upon physics, chemistry, astronomy, biosciences, and other scientific disciplines to attack some of the most important and challenging scientific problems of today. Among these problems are the investigation of the Earth and Sun, Moon and planets, stars and galaxies, and life in space from the vantage point provided by the orbiting satellite or the deep space probe.
Side 94 - The transition we are witnessing is no equable transition of growth and normal alteration, no silent, unconscious unfolding of one age into another, its natural heir and successor. Society is looking itself over, in our day, from top to bottom, is making fresh and critical analysis of its very elements, is questioning its oldest practices as freely as its newest, scrutinizing every arrangement and motive of its life, and stands ready to attempt nothing less than a radical reconstruction, which only...
Side 231 - L. JOHNSON Vice President and Director of Product Development Missile and Space Systems Division Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. Santa Monica, California COL. JE JOHNSTON Commanding Officer, San Francisco Procurement Department Oakland, California DR. VICTOR JONES Professor of Political Science University of California Berkeley, California RW JOYCE Vice Pres., Commercial Operations Pacific Gaa and Electric Company San Francisco, California EDGAR F.
Side 37 - ... in space, cosmic rays, the interplanetary magnetic field, solar fields, solar flares and particle eruptions, and planetary fields must be known to the scientist in detail in order that he can work out a theory of what is happening. The same quantities must be known to the engineer who is concerned with the protection of both equipment and crews against the hostility of the space environment. The scientist wishes to know about the physical, chemical, and thermal properties of the Moon, not only...
Side 53 - ... massive financial intervention by the federal government in education. There is no such consensus among authorities or laymen. There is no such consensus on the factual need or lack of need; there is no such consensus concerning the effects of federal intervention on the schools. Respecting the latter, there is a considerable body of opinion to the effect that the ills of American education could best be cured by a review of the purposes of that education. However this may be, the record does...
Side 93 - The plan was this : If from the surface of the earth, by a gigantic pea-shooter, you could shoot a pea upward from Greenwich, aimed northward as well as upward ; if you drove it so fast and far that when its power of ascent was exhausted, and it began to fall, it should clear the earth, and pass outside the North Pole ; if you had given it sufficient power to get it half round the earth without touching, that pea would clear the earth forever. It would continue to rotate above the North Pole, above...
Side 13 - Because of this constant orientation, other experiments can be carried that will always point to space and yet others at right angles to the plane of motion. The large paddles covered with solar cells will always point at the sun, so that some experiments mounted on the paddles can be constantly solar oriented.
Side 35 - The most likely candidate is Mars, where balloon observations in the infrared have detected emissions characteristic of the carbon-hydrogen bond. While this does not prove the existence of life on Mars, it is most certainly highly provocative. For this reason, preparations are going forward with various types of instruments to search for living forms on the Red Planet. These will be carried in fly-bys and landers as soon as the necessary transportation is available.