Research & information: general books

The report essentially summarizes the work performed in order to satisfy the above project objective. In the beginning,...  Read More >>

The NASA space station has the potential to provide significant economic benefits to commercial communications satellite...  Read More >>

In spite of rapid advances in both scalar and parallel computational tools, the large number of variables involved...  Read More >>

The goal of the F106B Thunderstorm Research Program is to characterize the lightning environment for aircraft in...  Read More >>

The Bibliography of Spatial Interferometry in Optical Astronomy is a guide to the published literature in applications...  Read More >>

The major contributions of the grant effort have been the enhancement of the Compensator Improvement Program (CIP),...  Read More >>

Critical technology experiments have been performed on thermal energy storage modules in support of the Brayton...  Read More >>

A free piston Stirling engine coupled to an electric generator or alternator with a nominal kWe power output absorbing...  Read More >>

This catalog contains preliminary analyses of residues of hypervelocity projectiles that encountered gold substrates...  Read More >>

ASRM insulated segments will be autoclave cured following insulation pre-form installation and strip wind operations....  Read More >>

The ISPAN Program (Interactive Stiffened Panel Analysis) is an interactive design tool that is intended to provide...  Read More >>

The flight software developed for the Flight Management/Flight Controls (FM/FC) MicroVAX computer used on the Transport...  Read More >>

If man is envisioned to be the masterpiece conception of God, if he is not a mere specimen of a zoological species...  Read More >>

A long-life, linear, high efficiency 8K split Stirling cycle cryocooler was designed, built, and tested. The refrigerator...  Read More >>

ZIP3D is an elastic and an elastic-plastic finite element program to analyze cracks in three dimensional solids....  Read More >>

Measurements were made in a large scale single stage turbine facility. Within the nozzle passage measurements were...  Read More >>

This report describes the research performed at the Center for Reactive Flow and Dynamical Systems in the Laboratory...  Read More >>

The purpose of this task was to add to the McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company's Sensors Database, including...  Read More >>

An improved methodology for quantitatively evaluating failure risk of spaceflight systems to assess flight readiness...  Read More >>

An experimental evaluation of two advanced technology combustor concepts was conducted to evolve and assess their...  Read More >>

A study was conducted to expand on the results of an initial study entitled Centaur Operations at the Space Station....  Read More >>

This bibliography contains abstracts of the technical reports that resulted from the scientific and engineering...  Read More >>

This report summarizes a series of analyses to quantify the hazardous effects of meteoroid/debris penetration of...  Read More >>

This manual describes how to use the Ceramics Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of Structures (CARES) computer...  Read More >>

The purpose of this report is to define the technology program required to meet the transportation technology needs...  Read More >>