Beyond the Cape: An Examination of Cape Canaveral\u27s Influence on the City of Cocoa Beach 1950-1963

A drive down A1A through the City of Cocoa Beach reveals meager clues to this municipality\u27s former life as Missileland, USA. Few businesses sport missile oriented names as they did during the Space-Age boom of the 1950s and 1960s. Reporters no longer troll the missile worker watering holes in hopes of securing information regarding the next launch from the Cape. The number of tourists seeking out Major Anthony Nelson\u27s house decreases each year. Today\u27s visitors find a community whose lifeblood stems more from its broad sandy shores than from its proximity to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or the Kennedy Space Center. But looking behind the surf shops and time shares, the legacy of Missileland, USA survives in the solid infrastructure developed during the city\u27s Space-Age heyday

Daily Eastern News: March 10, 1986

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Daily Eastern News: March 10, 1986

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Earth benefits from NASA research and technology. Life sciences applications

This document provides a representative sampling of examples of Earth benefits in life-sciences-related applications, primarily in the area of medicine and health care, but also in agricultural productivity, environmental monitoring and safety, and the environment. This brochure is not intended as an exhaustive listing, but as an overview to acquaint the reader with the breadth of areas in which the space life sciences have, in one way or another, contributed a unique perspective to the solution of problems on Earth. Most of the examples cited were derived directly from space life sciences research and technology. Some examples resulted from other space technologies, but have found important life sciences applications on Earth. And, finally, we have included several areas in which Earth benefits are anticipated from biomedical and biological research conducted in support of future human exploration missions

Scale-Critical Stories from the Casula Parklands

This thesis offers the concept of the scale-critical story as a mode of attentive critical and ethical engagement with the more-than-human world. Using Derek Woods’ notion of scale critique, and thinking with other scholarship on the rich concept of scale, I offer three modest examples of scale-critical stories to show how they might be used to do the urgent work of thinking the whole planet by attending to multiple, specifically situated sites of relating. These examples, concerning mosquitoes, bellbirds (Manorina melanophrys), and algae, begin from place-based empirical material primarily gathered at the Casula Parklands and Georges River in southwest Sydney, New South Wales. These stories consider some of the many contexts and scales of these creatures in more-than-representational — personal, political, performative, affective, speculative, and other — registers, drawing attention to their divergences and contradictions. I show that the critical and ethical posture of scale critique does not seek certainty or synthesis but rather one of experimental togetherness, which seeks in good faith to hold multiple modes of being together, to cultivate more complex attachments and solidarities in a time of distributed agencies, and ultimately to reaffirm the place of nonhumans in a living, lively ethics and politics of personal-planetary proportions.Sydney Environment Institut

Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 373)

This bibliography lists 206 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information System during Feb. 1993. Subject coverage includes: aerospace medicine and physiology, pharmacology, toxicology, environmental effect, life support systems and man/system technology, protective clothing, exobiology and extraterrestrial life, planetary biology, and flight crew behavior and performance

Life sciences accomplishments

From its inception, the main charter of Life Sciences has been to define biomedical requirements for the design and development of spacecraft systems and to participate in NASA's scientific exploration of the universe. The role of the Life Sciences Division is to: (1) assure the health, well being and productivity of all individuals who fly in space; (2) study the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe; and (3) to utilize the space environment as a tool for research in biology and medicine. The activities, programs, and accomplishments to date in the efforts to achieve these goals are detailed and the future challenges that face the division as it moves forward from the shuttle era to a permanent manned presence in space space station's are examined