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"In May 1961, President Kennedy announced that the United States would attempt to land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth before the end of that decade. Yet NASA did not have a specific plan for how to accomplish that goal. Over the next fourteen months, NASA vigorously debated several options. At first the consensus was to send one big rocket with several astronauts to the moon, land and explore, and then take off and return the astronauts to earth in the same vehicle. Another idea involved launching several smaller Saturn V rockets into the earth orbit, where a lander would be assembled and fueled before sending the crew to the moon. But it was a small group of engineers led by John C. Houbolt who came up with the plan that propelled human beings to the moon and back-not only safely, but faster, cheaper, and more reliably. Houbolt and his colleagues called it "lunar orbit rendezvous," or "LOR." At first the LOR idea was ignored, then criticized, and finally dismissed by many senior NASA officials. Nevertheless, the group, under Houbolt's leadership, continued to press the LOR idea, arguing that it was the only way to get men to the moon and back by President Kennedy's deadline. Houbolt persisted, risking his career in the face of overwhelming opposition. This is the story of how John Houbolt convinced NASA to adopt the plan that made history"--

Aerospace engineers --- Space flight to the moon --- History. --- Houbolt, John C. --- Project Apollo (U.S.)

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This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the recent Nazi war effort, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, and by the rocketeers' families, co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the Space Race, and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology, and asking Americans to consider their country's own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past.

Aerospace engineers -- United States -- Biography. --- Ex-Nazis -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- German Americans -- Alabama -- Huntsville -- History -- 20th century. --- Rocketry -- Biography -- 20th century. --- Rocketry --- Aerospace engineers --- German Americans --- Ex-Nazis --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics --- Former Nazis --- Nazis --- Ethnology --- Germans --- Engineers --- Aeronautics --- Astronautics --- History

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Aerospace industries --- Aerospace engineers --- Engineers --- Industries --- Employees --- Supply and demand. --- Supply and demand --- United States. --- N.A.S.A. --- NASA --- NASA Headquarters --- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.) --- Nat︠s︡ionalʹnoe upravlenie po aėronavtike i issledovanii︠u︡ kosmicheskogo prostranstva SShA --- Officials and employees --- Recruiting.

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Aerospace engineers --- Astronautics --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Engineers --- History. --- T͡Siolkovskiĭ, K. --- Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich, --- Ciołkowski, Konstanty, --- Ciolkovskij, Konstantin Eduardovič, --- T︠S︡iolkovskiĭ, Konstantin Ėduardovich, --- Циолковский, Константин Эдуардович, --- T︠S︡iolkovskiĭ, K. Ė. --- Циолковский, К. Э. --- Tsiolkovski, C., --- Циолковский, К.

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Aerospace engineers --- Cold War --- Aeronautics, Military --- Military aeronautics --- Military aviation --- Military art and science --- Air pilots, Military --- World politics --- History --- Mark, Hans, --- Mark, Hans Michael, --- United States. --- N.A.S.A. --- NASA --- NASA Headquarters --- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.) --- Nat︠s︡ionalʹnoe upravlenie po aėronavtike i issledovanii︠u︡ kosmicheskogo prostranstva SShA --- Officials and employees