A century at Langley : the storied legacy and soaring future of NASA Langley Research Center / Joseph R. Chambers.
Publisher: [Hampton, VA] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, [2017]Description: iv, 195 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits (some color) ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- NASA Langley Research Center
- Langley Research Center
- TL862.L35 C48 2017
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | NMC Library | Stacks | TL862 .L35 C48 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 33039001443992 |
"SP-2017-07-100-LaRC"--Back cover.
Shipping list no.: 2018-0008-S.
"This pictorial history, our 100th Anniversary book, uses images to tell the history of Langley in vivid detail, from our inception in 1917 as Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory right up to the present day."--Foreword.
Includes bibliographical references (page 192).
Plot 16: A difficult time (1915-1919) -- Birth and breakthroughs (1920-1929) -- Shaping the airplane (1930-1939) -- The war years (1940-1949) -- NASA is born (1950-1959) -- Glory days (1960-1969) -- Space exploration (1970-1979) -- Faster, higher, farther, and safer (1980-1989) -- A new direction (1990-1999) -- A new century (2000-2009) -- Toward the future (2010-2017).
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