Paper Session II-B - 3,2,1...Liftoff: Building a Way Station to Space

Cape Canaveral is a protrusion of land, sand, salt grass and thickly matted coastal vegetation jutting from the Florida peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean. First encountered by European explorers and identified on maps as early as 1502, the cape became a milepost and way station by which Western civilization came to the New World. Ponce de Leon, who explored the area around Cape Canaveral in 1513, and multitudes of aerospace engineers, scientists, technicians, administrators, businesses, and their associates throughout the old world and the new, through NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, share a common bond in the continuing exploration of the total human environment. By the close of the millennium Cape Canaveral’s John F. Kennedy Space Center had become the base from which the civilizations of Earth were going into space and out to other worlds. Kennedy Space Center’s first Director, Dr. Kurt H. Debus, perhaps reflecting on the common heritage of the New World explorers and the Other World explorers engaged in space and planetary exploration, observed that “Space is not something new. It’s part of the total environment, and we’ve been looking for the total environment ever since we looked out of caves at the stars.

Paper Session II-A - Navigating the Air: A History of Flight Before the Wright Brothers

When, on June 5 1783, Joseph and Etienne de Montgolfier launched for the first time in public their MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE, an immense enthusiasm took over the whole world. Never, except perhaps with the discovery of America, did any scientific event captured so much the passions of the masses: It seemed that finally MAN had conquered the atmosphere. HE was the master of the air just as much as he was already the master of the Earth and the Sea. Space belonged to him, and for most enthusiasts going to the moon was going to be just a game. Now a century or more has passed, and the hopes that the invention of Montgolfier had raised have not yet been realized in spite of the very large progresses that have been made. [Are] ... the roads of the atmosphere are closed to us forever? Must we no longer hope to follow one day the eagle in his flight because after 125 years man cannot yet travel at his will within space [the atmosphere]? ... all leads us to expect that the 20th century will bring us the complete solution to the problem. Will it be through Dirigible Balloons? Or through the pure heavier than air aircrafts? The future will teach us soon... J. LeCornu, Editor La Navigation Aerienne Paris, 190

Suddenly, tomorrow came... A history of the Johnson Space Center

This book chronicles the history of the Johnson Space Center into 17 chapters with a forward written by Donald K. Slayton. Photographs and illustrations are provided. This book becomes part of the NASA history series

A principal in transition: an autoethnography

This research represents a highly personalized account of the complexities, interpretations, and reflections of a principal in transition from one elementary school to another elementary school in the same district. Using myself as the subject and the researcher in the social context of an elementary school provided the impetus for this self-study. Through an insider's vantage point, I have chronicled and traced the experiences of my own administrative transition using the qualitative methodology of autoethnography. This genre of qualitative research brings the reader closer to the subculture studied through the experiences of the author. While every campus and district has its own unique culture and environment, the introspection and evaluation provided by the methodology of autoethnography greatly facilitates an understanding of the processes of transition. The experiences I have encountered, the problems I face, and the interpretations derived from them will strengthen my own practice as a public school administrator and provide insight into the ever-changing administrative position called the principalship. Data gathering consisted of a reflexive journal, my personal calendar, faculty agendas, staff memos, and reflective analysis. At the completion of the school year common strands, key attributes, and coding of the data served to provide retrospective insights. These research tools were used to capture the experiences of my administrative transition. The results of this study were expressed in a personal narrative that comprises Chapters IV through VI. Chapters I through III present a traditional dissertation model that includes the introduction, review of literature, and research methodology. Chapter VII offers recommendations, a discussion of the findings and concluding remarks

Die Geschichte der Klinik Waldeck von der Tuberkulose-Heilstätte zur Fachklinik für Medizinische Rehabilitation

Die Arbeit beschreibt die Klinikentwicklung von der Tbc-Heilstätte zur Fachklinik für Rehabilitation. Sie beginnt mit der Betrachtung der Tuberkulose-Situation in Deutschland in der 2. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts und führt über die Gründung der Heilstätte 1911, der Situation der Heilstätte während des I. Weltkrieges, Inflation, Weimarer Republik, Nationalsozialismus und II. Weltkrieg, Nachkriegszeit, DDR-Zeit, dem Rückgang der Tbc, der fachlichen Neuorientierung zur Neurologischen Rehabilitation, dem Übergang vom Sozialismus zur Marktwirtschaft und der weiteren Profilierung bis zum Jahr 2018

Citizen and Soldier: A Sourcebook on Military Service and National Defense from Colonial America to the Present

Americans grow up expecting that in a time of need, their country can depend on its people for volunteer service to the military. Indeed, this has been a social and at times legal expectation for the citizenship of this country since 1776. Yet, since the end of World War II United States forces have been caught up in many long term military engagements, and the military aspect of citizenship has become an increasingly marginalized one in a world where only a minority of citizens even vote. Citizen and Soldier: A Sourcebook on Military Service and National Defense from Colonial America to the Present provides a useful framework and supporting documentary evidence for an informed discussion of the development of the American ideal of the Citizen Soldier . Presented with insightful introductions and useful discussion questions, this concise collection of 27 primary documents takes a close look at the United States military and shows how it became entwined with the rise of American national identity.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/fac_books/1032/thumbnail.jp