Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space: An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA

by Roger E. Bilstein

Book Overview

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics--forerunner of today's NASA--emerged in 1915, when airplanes were curiosities made of wood and canvas and held together with yards of baling wire. At the time an unusual example of government intrusion (and foresight, given the importance of aviation to national military concerns), the committee oversaw the development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801871581
• ISBN13: 9780801871580
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher