[Lecture, May 14, 1997 [sound recording] / James Arnold and Fred Peters ; introduction by Karl Johansson]. [1997]

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Peters, Fredus Nelson

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Project Apollo (U.S.)

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The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returnin...

California Space Institute

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Established in 1992, the NSCORT in exobiology, as part of the California Space Institute, supports the research of the processes involved in the origin of life and prebiotic assessment. From the description of NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training (NSCORT) in exobiology records, 1992-2005. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 624618682 KidSat is a collaborative, three-year project managed by the California Space Institute at UCSD and the Jet ...

Arnold, James R. (James Richard), 1923-

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James Arnold is a theoretical chemist formerly associated with the Manhattan Project, the Institute of Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago, and Princeton University prior to his appointment in 1958 to the chemistry faculty at UCSD. Arnold has been a continual consultant to NASA and has served as associated editor of the JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS. In 1964 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and, in 1968, he received the E.O. Lawrence Award from the Atomic Energy Commiss...