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130 CHAPTER 7 Summary The logos became an intimate, ever-present component of activities as NASA achieved the necessary stepping-stones for travel to the Moon during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. The meatball insignia, in particular, became a publicly admired symbol as the nation raced to meet a seemingly impossible schedule for a Moon landing imposed by a President with his eyes on the stars and the immediate Soviet threat. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon on 20 July 1969, the meatball accompanied them on their thrilling lunar excursion. The NASA meatball was replaced in 1975 by the artistic worm logotype insignia, much to the dismay of many NASA employees. Despite the logo controversy, the worm was carried during the early Shuttle missions and played a part in the advanced aircraft concepts conceived and evaluated by NASA and its industrial and military partners for 16 years. When new NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin retired the worm and brought back the meatball in 1992 as a reminder of the glory days of the Agency to improve the morale of employees, the logo was welcomed back by many veteran NASA employees. Today, the NASA logos are instantly recognized throughout the world and continue to inspire and represent the world’s leading civil Agency for research and development in aerospace technology. It is expected that the symbols will become even more visible as NASA celebrates the centennial anniversary of the NACA in 2015.
About the Authors Joseph R. Chambers is an aviation consultant who lives in Yorktown, Virginia. He retired from the NASA Langley Research Center in 1998 after a 36-year career as a researcher and manager of military and civil aeronautics research activities. He began his career in 1962 as a member of the research staff of the Langley Full- Scale Tunnel, where he specialized in flight dynamics research on a variety of aerospace vehicles including V/STOL configurations, parawing vehicles, re-entry vehicles, and fighter-aircraft configurations. In 1974 he became the head of the Full-Scale Tunnel, the Langley 20-Foot Spin Tunnel, and outdoor free-flight and drop-model testing. In 1989 he became head of aircraft flight research at Langley in addition to his other responsibilities. In 1994 he was assigned to organize and manage a new group responsible for conducting systems-level analysis of the potential payoffs of NASA technologies and advanced aircraft concepts to help guide NASA research investments. Chambers is the author of over 50 NASA technical reports and publications, including NASA Special Publications SP-514, Patterns in the Sky, on airflow condensation patterns for aircraft; SP-2000- 4519, Partners in Freedom, on contributions of the Langley Research Center to U.S. military aircraft of the 1990s; SP-2003-4529, Concept to Reality, on contributions of Langley to U.S. civil aircraft of the 1990s; and SP-2005-4539, Innovation in Flight, on Langley research on advanced concepts for aeronautics. He has written or contributed to several books for the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, including SP-2009-575, Modeling Flight, on the development and application of dynamic free-flight models by the NACA and NASA. He was a contributor to SP-2010-570, NASA’s Contributions to Aeronautics. His most recent publication is NASA SP-2014-614, Cave of the Winds, on the history of the Langley Full-Scale Wind Tunnel. Chambers has made presentations on research and development programs to audiences as diverse as the von Karman Institute in Belgium and the annual Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Fly-In in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and has consistently shown the ability to address a technical audience and the general public. He has served as a representative of the United States on international committees and has given lectures on NASA’s aeronautics programs in Japan, China, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, and Sweden. 131
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