Conference on Spacecraft Reconnaissance of Asteroid and Comet Interiors : January 8-10, 2015, Tempe, Arizona

The goal of AstroRecon is to identify and evaluate the best technologies for spacecraft robotic reconnaissance of comets, asteroids, and small moons--paving the way for advanced science missions, exploration, sample return, in situ resource utilization, hazard mitigation, and human visitation.Shell GameChanger, ASU NewSpace, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratoryinstitutional support Arizona State University, Lunar and Planetary Institute, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Universities Space Research Association Arizona State University's Students for the Exploration and Development of Space ; sponsors Shell GameChanger, ASU NewSpace, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ; conveners Erik Asphaug Arizona State University, Tempe, Jekan Thangavelautham Arizona State University, Tempe ; program committee Erik Asphaug (Co-chair Science) Arizona State University, Tempe [and 6 others].PARTIAL CONTENTS: Human Exploration / P. A. Abell and A. S. Rivkin--Comet Radar Explorer / E. Asphaug--Development of Communication Technologies and Architectural Concepts for Interplanetary Small Satellite Communications / A. B. Babuscia and K. C. Cheung--Numerical Simulations of Spacecraft-Regolith Interactions on Asteroids / R.-L. Ballouz, D. C. Richardson, P. Michel, and S. R. Schwartz--Kuiper: A Discover, Class Observatory for Outer Solar System Giant Planets, Satellites, and Small Bodies / J. F. Bell, N. M. Schneider, M. E. Brown, J. T. Clarke, B. T. Greenhagen, R. M.C. Lopes, A. R. Hendrix, and M. H. Wong--Landing on Small Bodies: From the Rosetta Lander to MASCOT and Beyond / J. Biele, S. Ulamec, P.-W. Bousquet, P. Gaudon, K. Geurts, T.-M. Ho, C. Krause, R. Willnecker, and M. Deleuze--High-Resolution Bistatic Radar Imaging in Support of Asteroid and Comet Spacecraft Missions / M. W. Busch, L. A. M. Benner, M. A. Slade, L. Teitelbaum, M. Brozovic, M. C. Nolan, P. A. Taylor, F. Ghigo, and J. Ford--Asteroid Comet and Surface Gravimetric Surveying can Reveal Interior Structural Details / K. A. Carroll

The 1986 Get Away Special Experimenter's Symposium

The 1986 Get Away Special (GAS) Experimenter's Symposium will provide a formal opportunity for GAS Experimenter's to share the results of their projects. The focus of this symposium is on payloads that will be flown in the future

Space programs summary no. 37-51, volume 3 for the period April 1 to May 31, 1968. Supporting research and advanced development

Space Programs Summary - supporting research and advanced developmen

Space programs summary no. 37-49, volume 3 for the period December 1, 1967 to January 30, 1968. Supporting research and advanced development

Space program research projects on systems analysis and engineering, telecommunications, guidance and control, propulsion, and data system

Publications of Goddard Space Flight Center, 1964. Volume I - Space sciences

This publication is a collection of articles, papers, talks, and reports generated by the scientific and engineering staff of Goddard Space Flight Center in the year 1964. Many of these articles were originally published in scientific or engineering Journals or as official NASA technical publications, while other are documents of a more informal nature. All are reprinted here as nearly verbatim as typography and format will permit. These articles are grouped into broad subject categories, but no detailed subdivision has been made. Within each category, the articles are arranged alphabetically by author. An overall author index is given in the back of the volume. The years 1963, 1964, and 1965 are being published as whole-year issues, and the resulting size dictates the use of two volumes; the first volume is titled Space Sciences, and the second Space Technology. It is anticipated, however, that future issues will be quarterly single volumes

An investigation of multiple natural origins of religion

This study attempts to trace how religion could have originated in prehistory and antiquity, out of natural human and prehuman behaviour, without requiring the reality of the supernatural.Religion is here defined as beliefs, conceptions, practices and roles concerned with the putative supernatural. A variety of manifestations or elements of religious belief and practice can be identified. It is proposed that they have separate origins. Examples of religious elements are: life after death, ghosts, sacrifice, priests, shamans, gods, demons, .... It is argued that to try to reduce religion to one original element is a mistake. There may be no single origin. But the individual elements have origins, and plausible theories can account for each.Using theories and insights of previous workers, elaborated as necessary with information from a range of sciences, arguments are presented to account for five major foundational religious elements, thereby illustrating and partly fulfilling what is potentially a much wider programme. The elements covered are: (1) Animatism: numina, daemons; (2) Animism: ghosts, souls; (3) Another world: life after death; (4) Another world: heaven; (5) Religious specialists: shamans.Chapter 1 introduces the programme. Chapter 2 sets out definitions, philosophical principles and methodologyChapter 3 explores the specifically numinous quality which characterizes the supernatural in subjective experience. Chapter 4 describes brain structures and the neural substrate of experience. Chapter 5 proposes specific neurological hypotheses to account for certain types of numinous or `supernatural' experience.Chapter 6 deals with ape mentality, which may be presumed to characterize that of our remote ancestors, and identifies precursors of religious elements.Chapters 7 - 11 deal with the possibly separate origin of five major religious elements, as listed above.Chapter 12 summarizes the investigation, attempts to place the elements covered in sequence of their development in prehistory and antiquity, and expresses the limitations of the theory constructed

Lunar impact: A history of Project Ranger

Complete history of the Ranger project is provided as a tool for understanding the evolution and operational form of NASA's continuing progress of unmanned space exploration. Basic management techniques, flight operating procedures and technology for NASA's later unmanned lunar and planetary missions were reviewed. Methods for selecting experiments and integrating them with the spacecraft were also investigated

Une histoire de la chimie atmosphérique globale: Enjeux disciplinaires et d'expertise de la Couche d'ozone et du Changement climatique

Until now, the history of environmental sciences has not extensively documented the input of atmospheric chemists, who formalize the chemical reactions that take place in the atmosphere. This PhD dissertation focuses on chemistry of the global atmosphere. Atmospheric chemistry has been in the heart of the expertise on the anthropogenic destruction of the ozone layer from 1970 on. Since the end of the 1980s, atmospheric chemists have also taken part in the writing of the IPCC reports. They have also contributed to the more holistic works on the “Earth system”. Combining different approaches for studying sciences and techniques, this PhD dissertation writes a "social" history of the academic field on chemistry of the global atmosphere since the 1920s. Our narrative is mainly focused on the evolution of the scientific practices of chemistry of the global atmosphere, on social and disciplinary changes, and on the new types of expertise that have emerged within the field. The author mainly concentrates on three "moments": the first two decades of the Coldwar; the “environmental(ist) turn” of atmospheric sciences in the 1970s and 80s; the climate change governance.L’histoire des sciences de l’environnement a, jusqu’à présent, peu documenté l’apport des chimistes de l’atmosphère, qui formalisent les réactions chimiques se produisant au sein de l’atmosphère. Cette thèse porte spécifiquement sur la chimie atmosphérique globale. La chimie de l’atmosphère a été au centre de l’expertise sur la destruction anthropique de la couche d’ozone à partir de 1970. Les chimistes de l’atmosphère ont également participé à l’élaboration des rapports du GIEC (Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat) à partir de la fin des années 1980, ainsi qu’à des travaux au sein de la science dite « du système Terre ». En combinant différentes approches de l’étude des sciences et des techniques, ce mémoire de thèse fait une histoire "sociale" du champ d’étude sur la chimie atmosphérique globale depuis les années 1920. Le cœur du récit porte sur l’évolution des pratiques scientifiques de la chimie atmosphérique globale, les reconfigurations disciplinaires et sociales, et l’apparition de nouvelles formes d’expertise et de figures d’expert propres à ce champ d’étude. L’auteur examine dans le détail trois "moments": les deux premières décennies de la Guerre froide ; le "tournant environnemental(iste)" des sciences de l’atmosphère dans les années 1970- 80 ; la gouvernance du changement climatique