Astronautical and Aeronautical Events of 1962 - NASA's History Office

Space, 43
Space Act. See National Aeronautics and Space Act.
Space age, 54
Space-age religion, 48, 49
Space biology, 69
Space Construction Office (USA), 25
Spacecraft
INDEX 357
aerodynamics, 230
escape system, 200
sterilization of, 157
Spacecraft bus, 144
Space, economic payoff of, 192, 208, 237, 245
Space environment
dust, 231
simulated. 134
Space environmental simulator, 16
Space, exploration of, 5, 20, 22, 38, 39, 41, 47, 55, 56, 75, 81, 97, 260
Space-General Corp.. -. 91. . 227
Space, impact of
on foreign relations, 120, 157, 177
on imagination, 115
on industry, 191, 192, 208, 240
on public, 26, 179, 201
on science, 252
Space law, 38
need for, 78, 87, 104, 116, 138-9, 146
U.N., 4-5, 180, 185-6, 264
Space medicine. See Life science; Bioscience.
Space, military uses of, 57
bombs, 87, 94
building blocks, 213
capability, 43, 158
electronic interception, 277
manned apace flight, 17-8, 99, 101, 141, 156, 157, 185
moon, 42
need for, 42, 67-8, 86, 195, 241
policy, 30, 61, 77, 103, 108, 174, 196-7
satellite interception and inspection, 2, 75, 117
status, 100, 106, 153-4
threat, 3, 193-4
Spacemobile, 100
Space Museum (MSFC), 83
Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO), 102, 211
Space, peaceful uses of. See International cooperation, space; International space
programs; Space law; United Nations.
Space pilot, 58
Space power, 209
Space power unit reactor. See Spur.
Space program, national
DOD-NASA relations, 131
economics of, 75, 130, 143, 208
future. 226. 245. 271
objectives,’3, 5,‘11, 19, 30, 99, 174, 181, 182, 193, 195, 206, 208, 259, 281
pace of, 10, 13, 143, 149, 196, 282
progress, 12, 14, 46, 71, 124, 131
Space race
boosters, 150, 153, 160
failures, 173. 177
investment, ‘280
manned space flight, 149, 153
military, 154, 198
oversimplification, 206
space science, 154
totalprograms, 2, 14, 74, 171, 179, 181, 244
Space Research Institute (Duke U.), 146