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American Statistical Association bulletin
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ISSN: 23343915 23343907 Year: 1938 Publisher: Washington, D.C American Statistical Association

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AMSTAT news
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ISSN: 01639617 Publisher: Alexandria ASA

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Tolstoy and Tolstaya
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ISBN: 0776624717 9780776624716 9780776624723 9780776624730 9780776624747 0776624725 0776624733 0776624741 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario

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Tolstoy and Tolstaya's legacy is still regarded as one of the greatest contributions to Russian history and world literature, while their daily life has been recorded through their correspondence. This work presents the last 239 letters plus 11 hitherto unpublished letters between the spouses, painting a remarkable portrait of their life and times.


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Atmospheric Science at NASA : A History
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ISBN: 1421401630 0801889847 Year: 2008 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,


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The Challenger launch decision : risky technology, culture, and deviance at NASA
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ISBN: 9780226346823 022634682X Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago The University of Chicago Press

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When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the tragedy. Diane Vaughan recreates the steps leading up to that fateful decision, contradicting conventional interpretations to prove that what occurred at NASA was not skullduggery or misconduct but a disastrous mistake. Why did NASA managers, who not only had all the information prior to the launch but also were warned against it, decide to proceed? In retelling how the decision unfolded through the eyes of the managers and the engineers, Vaughan uncovers an incremental descent into poor judgment, supported by a culture of high-risk technology. She reveals how and why NASA insiders, when repeatedly faced with evidence that something was wrong, normalized the deviance so that it became acceptable to them. In a new preface, Vaughan reveals the ramifications for this book and for her when a similar decision-making process brought down NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003.


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Kalman Silvert
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ISBN: 1626375607 9781626375604 9781626375543 1626375542 9781626375543 9781626375550 1626375550 Year: 2022 Publisher: Boulder

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Kalman Silvert highlights the extraordinary career of an extraordinary man―one of the founding architects of Latin American studies in the United States, a major builder of the inter-American scholarly community, and an influential figure in US-Latin American relations.Thirteen distinguished Latin Americanists discuss Silvert’s role as scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague, public intellectual, institution builder, and philanthropist. They also emphasize his contributions at the Ford Foundation, where he served as senior program adviser from 1967 until his death in 1976. Coeditors Abraham F. Lowenthal and Martin Weinstein frame the retrospective, underlining the integration of Silvert’s multiple contributions and the continuing relevance of his legacy.


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NASA and the long civil rights movement
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ISBN: 0813065208 0813057329 9780813057323 9780813066202 0813066204 9780813065205 0813072484 Year: 2019 Publisher: Gainesville, FL

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NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement addresses the role/relationship of NASA and the Apollo program to the "long" civil rights movement in, particularly but not limited to, the Deep South (Huntsville, Florida, Houston, Mississippi, and New Orleans) and identifies the impact of NASA on the movement and the experiences of those who were directly affected by the space program and the impact of the movement on NASA's development during the Cold War.


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Integrating women into the astronaut corps
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ISBN: 1421403943 1421401959 9781421403946 9781421401959 Year: 2011 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press


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Aurora 7 : The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter
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ISBN: 3319204386 3319204394 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA’s second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for pride, jubilation and celebration. Within hours, that excitement had given way to stunned disbelief and anxiety as shaken broadcasters began preparing the American public for the very real possibility that an American astronaut and his spacecraft may have been lost at sea. In fact, it had been a very close call. Completely out of fuel and forced to manually guide Aurora 7 through the frightening inferno of re-entry, Carpenter brought the Mercury spacecraft down to a safe splashdown in the ocean. In doing so, he controversially overshot the intended landing zone. Despite his efforts, Carpenter’s performance on the MA-7 mission was later derided by powerful figures within NASA. He would never fly into space again. Taking temporary leave of NASA, Carpenter participated in the U.S. Navy’s pioneering Sealab program. For a record 30 days he lived and worked aboard a pressurized habitat resting on the floor of the ocean, becoming the nation’s first astronaut/aquanaut explorer. Following extensive research conducted by noted spaceflight historian Colin Burgess, the drama-filled flight of Aurora 7 is faithfully recounted in this engrossing book, along with the personal recollections of Scott Carpenter and those closest to the actual events.

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