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A study was conducted to identify, rank, and define development plans for the critical guidance and control design...  Read More >>

In 1980, NASA initiated the Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP) to cultivate additional research ties to the...  Read More >>

Based on the potential for decreasing costs of joining stiffeners to skin by laser beam welding, a fundamental research...  Read More >>

A study was conducted to evaluate the performance implications of a heads-up ascent flight design for the Space...  Read More >>

The objective of this research program is in the development of more accurate and efficient methods for solution...  Read More >>

This report summarizes the results of a comprehensive NASA in-house study to identify and assess alternate approaches...  Read More >>

A particular porting effort is discussed, and various statistics on analyzing the portability of Ada and the total...  Read More >>

A nonlinear representation for the rapid-pressure correlation appearing in the Reynolds stress equations, consistent...  Read More >>

This work is an extension of a previous ring current decay model. In the previous work, a two-dimensional kinetic...  Read More >>

This report summarizes analysis and design done on the controller system for the Advanced Launch System (ALS) main...  Read More >>

The test section of the NASA Lewis 9- by 15-Foot Low Speed Wind Tunnel was acoustically treated to allow the measurement...  Read More >>

The major goals of this effort are as follows: (1) to examine technology insertion options to optimize Advanced...  Read More >>

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has implemented the Advanced Air Transportation Technology...  Read More >>

In preparation for the future deployment of the Space Station, an R and D program was established to demonstrate...  Read More >>

An ethnographic field study was conducted to investigate the nature of presence in field geology, and to develop...  Read More >>

The following monthly mean global distributions for 1993 are presented with a common color scale and geographical...  Read More >>

An economical algorithm is presented for predicting the position of a satellite perturbed by drag and zonal harmonics...  Read More >>

High noise levels can lead to physiological, psychological, and performance effects in man, ranging from irritability,...  Read More >>

This report deals with conducting a probabilistic study of the external tank attach ring (ETA) used as an interface...  Read More >>

A proposed replacement scheme for the integration of the barometric and diffusion equations in the NASA Marshall...  Read More >>

The aerodynamic measurements in conventional wind tunnels usually suffer from the interference effects of the sting...  Read More >>

This TM describes the development, testing, and application of a 4-component (phytoplankton, zooplankton, nitrate,...  Read More >>

An experimental study was conducted to determine the aerodynamic characteristics of a proposed high speed civil...  Read More >>

A study was done in the NASA 14- by 22-Foot Wind Tunnel at Langley Research Center on the parasite drag of different...  Read More >>