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Manning, Captain Harry, 9<br />

Mannock, Edward, 37<br />

Mantz, Paul, 9<br />

Map projections, 233<br />

Mariner 2, 524<br />

Mariner 4, 528<br />

Mariner 5, 524<br />

Mariner 6, 528<br />

Mariner 7, 528<br />

Mariner 9, 529<br />

Mariner 10, 523<br />

Mars 528-530<br />

Mars Global Surveyor 530<br />

Mars Pathfinder 529-530<br />

mass 386<br />

Maughan, Army Lieutenant Russell, 53<br />

McKenzie-Grieve, Lieutenant Commander Kenneth,<br />

46<br />

McNary-Watres Act, 64<br />

Mercury 523<br />

mesophere 382<br />

meteor 540<br />

meteoroid 540<br />

Meusnier, Jean Baptiste, 10<br />

microburst 418<br />

micrometeorites 540<br />

military aircraft letter and number designations, 324<br />

military and joint-use airports, 237-238<br />

Milky Way 541<br />

Mir 596<br />

Mitchell, General “Billy”, 39-41,48,50,94,95<br />

monopropellant 463<br />

Montgolfier, Joseph and Etienne, 7<br />

Montgomery, John J., 12<br />

Mooney Aircraft Company, 288<br />

Multi-spectrum-imaging satellites 568<br />

Landsats 568-569<br />

Murray, Kit, 130<br />

Mussolini, 77<br />

N<br />

NACA (National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics),<br />

128<br />

NAFEC, 351<br />

NASA, 353-354, 555<br />

Nagasaki, 108<br />

Napalm bombs, 121<br />

National Aeronautics and Space Act 555,559<br />

National Aeronautics and Space<br />

National Championship Air Races, 294<br />

National Security Act, 114<br />

Navigation satellites 565<br />

NAVSTAR Global Positioning System<br />

Timation 565<br />

637<br />

Transit 565<br />

Nebulae 545<br />

Neptune 535<br />

neutrosphere 384<br />

Newton’s Laws <strong>of</strong> Motion 449-451<br />

Newton’s Law <strong>of</strong> Universal Gravitation 448<br />

Newton, Sir Isaac, 179, 447-451<br />

Nickles, Sergeant Edwin, 53<br />

Nimitz, Admiral Chester A., 102<br />

Ninety-Nines, 56<br />

Nixon, President Richard M., 140-143<br />

Noncombatant Army aircraft, 321-322<br />

Noncombatant Navy aircraft 321-322<br />

Noonan, Fred, 9<br />

Normandy Invasion, 99<br />

North Korea, 119<br />

nova 542-543<br />

Noyes, Blanche, 56<br />

NTSB, 352<br />

O<br />

oblique-wing, 161-162<br />

oblique-winged aircraft, 162<br />

Observations satellites 567<br />

occluded fronts 408<br />

O’Donnell, Gladys, 56<br />

Omlie, Phoebe Fairgrave, 49<br />

Oort Cloud 539<br />

Operation Desert Shield, 148<br />

Operation Desert Storm, 150-151<br />

Omlie, Phoebe Fairgrave, 49<br />

Operation Desert Shield, 148<br />

Operation Desert Storm, 150-151<br />

Operation Linebacker, 141<br />

Operation Linebacker II, 143<br />

Operation Rolling Thunder, 137<br />

orbit, 477<br />

Orteig, Raymond, 59<br />

Ostfriesland (battleship), 51<br />

outer Space Treaty, 557<br />

oxidation, 461<br />

oxidizers, 461<br />

ozonosphere, 384<br />

P<br />

Pacific Campaign, 103<br />

para-frag bombs, 82<br />

particulate matter 391<br />

Pascal, 6<br />

patrol aircraft, 310<br />

Pearl Harbor, 89,90,91<br />

Penaud, Alphonse, 12<br />

perigee 479

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