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First Flights

Page address: http://lib.mnsu.edu/govdoc/subjectlist/aeronautics/flights.html
First Flights:
100 Years of Powered Flight

DOCUMENTS:

D 301.76/5: T 48/2
A Century of Air and Space Power Timeline
D 301.82/7: C 33
Splendid Vision, Unswerving Purpose: Developing Air Power for the United States Air Force during the First Century of Powered Flight
I 29.9/5: 159
First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane
NAS 1.2: M 31/2/962
Results of the First United States Manned Orbital Space Flight: February 20, 1962
NAS 1.21:2003-4316
Crafting Flight: Aircraft Pioneers and the Contributions of the Men and Women of NASA Langley Research Center
NAS 1.21: 4206
Stages to Saturn
NAS 1.21:4309
Flights of Discovery: 50 Years at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
NAS 1.43:C 73
First Launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia
NAS 1.43: W 92 X
Wright way [poster]  Innovation through Engineering

CD-ROMS:

D 221.18: AV 5
United States Naval Aviation 1910-1995
NAS 1.86: N 17 X/CD
NASA Space Flight and Science

MODELS:

NAS 1.2:G 49/994       or
Southcat web link:
NAS 1.69: EB-2000-08-130-HQ      to
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/
NASA.Educational.Products/Space.Shuttle.Glider/    (NASA Kids web site)
U. S. Space Shuttle Glider

NASA Educational Brief
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/rockets/probes/NearModel.pdf   (NASA KIDS web site)
N E A R  Spacecraft Model
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.
Educational.Products/
X1.Paper.Glider.Kit/X1.Paper.Glider.Kit.pdf 
(NASA KIDS web site)

The X-1 Paper Glider Kit: Investigating the Basics of Flight with a Model of the First Supersonic Aircraft

NASA Educational Brief

WEB  SITES:

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/postwwi/ffh.htm
First Flyable Helicopter
http://history.nasa.gov/centtimeline/index.html
The First Century of Flight: NACA/NASSA Contributions to Aeronautics
http://msfc.nasa.gov/
NASA Kids
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional. Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/
Space.Shuttle.Glider/Space.Shuttle.Glider.pdf
NASA Educational Brief:
Space Shuttle Glider

http://history.nasa.gov/
or
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/
NASA History Office
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/
mercury/mercury-spacecraft.htm
Mercury Spacecraft
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/
mercury/ma-6/ma-6.htm
Mercury: Friendship 7 MA-6 (23)
http:www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/factoids/
mercury.htm
Factiods: Mercury Program
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/gemini/gemini-spacecraft.htm
Gemini Spacecraft
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/gemini/gemini-3/gemini3.htm
Gemini III
http:www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/factoids/
gemini.htm
Factiods: Gemini Program
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/
apollo/apollo-spacecraft.htm
Apollo Spacecraft
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history
/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11.htm
Apollo XI
http:www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/factoids/
apollo.htm
Factoids: Apollo Program
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/images/pao/AS11/10075269.jpg
Lunar Landing Module on the Moon
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/images/pao/AS9/10075054.jpg
Lunar Landing Module in Flight
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ ap010412.html
First Shuttle Launch
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/shuttle/
missions/sts-1/mission-sts-1.html
Shuttle Mission Archive: Columbia
http:www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/factoids/
shuttle.htm
Factoids: Space Shuttle Program