NASA Langley Research Center: The First Century

Author(s): Amy Waters Yarsinske

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Series: America Through Time
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781634990745
Related Topics: America Through Time, Virginia, Aviation, South

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"No place has played a larger role in the history of American flight technology or flight technology in general than Langley Research Center,"

observed Tom D. Crouch Ph.D., D.H.L., an aeronautics historian and senior curator with the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.

"It's hard to think of an airliner in the air today that doesn't have Langley's signature on it. It's hard to think of a military airplane flying today that Langley wasn't involved with in one way or another."

Langley research established many of the basic building blocks of aeronautics, changed the shape of aircraft and paved the way for jet aircraft that could fly at supersonic speed.

Whether it is testing airbags for space capsule landings, developing technologies to allow aircraft to fly at supersonic and hypersonic speeds, or studying Earth's atmosphere, NASA Langley remains on the leading edge as it has since 1917.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

Amy Waters Yarsinske is the author of several best-selling, award-winning non-fiction books. Her drive to document and investigate history-shaping stories and people has already led to over 60 non-fiction books, most of them spotlighting current affairs, the military, history and the environment. Amy graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Economics. She earned her Master of Planning from the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where she was a DuPont Fellow and Lawn/Range resident. She also holds numerous graduate certificates, including from the CIVIC Leadership Institute and the Joint Forces Staff College, both headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781634990745
Publisher: America Through Time
Date: 11/19/2018
State: Virginia
Images: 200 Black And White
Dimensions: 6.75 (w) x 9.75 (h)

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