La Nasa a 50 ans - 3eme partie

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Peut-être fusionner le sujet avec le précédent "50 ans de la Nasa" ?

ils en font beaucoup pour les 50 ans, mais .... on aime cela

il y a la-dedans pas mal de de phrases historiques ....

Sur NASA TV:

October 15, Wednesday
9 p.m. - 50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA - HQ (Public and Education Channels)

October 16, Thursday
12:30 - 12:50 p.m. - ISS Expedition 18/17 In-Flight Interviews with CBS News and ABC News - JSC (Public and Media Channels)
1 p.m. - 50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA - HQ (Public and Education Channels)
5 p.m. - 50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA - HQ (Public and Education Channels)
9 p.m. - 50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA - HQ (Public and Education Channels)

merci

A enregistrer car Armstrong et Glenn sont de la partie ce soir...ou cette nuit...

Remarks at NASA 50th Anniversary Gala
by
Neil Armstrong
24 Sep 08
In the summer of 1958, the congress wrote, and the president signed, the National Space Act, establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I remember the time clearly. Fifty years ago this week, I was high above the California desert, piloting a B-29 carrier aircraft and launching the X-1E, the latest and most advanced of the fabled X-1 research airplane series.
NASA became an operating agency on October 1, 1958. I found myself, that Wednesday morning, going to work at my same job, in my same office, and doing the same work, that I had been doing the previous day. It was a relatively easy transition. We were already riding on rockets in research aircraft. We knew how to count backwards: 3-2-1. We had merely to paint over the C in the NACA on our airplanes, trucks, and vans -- and replace it with an S.
At the other principle components of the new agency, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, and the Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, I assume they were deciding what the minimum amount of painting would be required and what new responsibilities they would face.
In any case, I suspect, there are a number of people here tonight who remember the birth of NASA and were a part of those early days. So I ask all of those here tonight who were the founding members of NASA -- those from NACA, those from JPL, and those from Redstone, and those who came from various other places -- to join NASA in the year 1958 -- to stand (raise hands?) -- and be recognized as the OLD FOGIES that we are -- and of which we are exceedingly proud.
And here tonight, a half -century later, we look back on what has been accomplished. Our knowledge of the universe around us has increased a thousand fold - and more. We learned that homo sapiens was not forever imprisoned by the gravitational field of Earth. Performance, efficiency, reliability and safety of aircraft have improved remarkably. We’ve sent probes though out the solar system - and beyond. We have seen deeply into our universe and looked back toward the beginning of time.
We were a competitor in perhaps the greatest peacetime competition of all time -- the Space Race. USA vs. USSR. Like a war, it was expensive. Like a war, each side wanted intelligence on what and how the other side was doing. I will not assert that the space race was the diversion which prevented a war. Nevertheless, it was a diversion, it was intense, and it did allow both sides to take the high road -- with the objectives of science, learning, and exploration.
Eventually, it provided a mechanism for engendering cooperation between adversaries. In that sense, among others, it was an exceptional national investment for each side. I submit that one of the most important roles of government is to motivate its citizens, and particularly its young citizens, to love to learn, and to strive to participate in -- and contribute to -- societal progress. By that measure, NASA will, without doubt, rank in the top tier of government enterprises.
The goal is far more than just going faster, higher and further. Our goal, indeed our responsibility, is to develop new options for future generations. Options for expanding human knowledge, exploration, human settlement, and resource development in the universe around us.
Our highest and most important hope is that the human race will improve its intelligence, its character, and its wisdom so that it will be able to properly evaluate and choose among those options and the many others that they will encounter in the years ahead.
And I look forward to watching the progress in their development and hearing a status report when we gather again for NASA’s 100th anniversary.

Remarks for:
U.S. Sen. John Glenn
NASA 50th Anniversary Celebration
Sept. 24, 2008
Thank you very much, Leon, for those very kind remarks. You know, I want
to squelch one rumor. It's not true that on that last flight NASA would not let
me make a spacewalk because they were afraid, at my age, I might wander
off someplace. It didn't happen.
I think we should say, NASA, happy birthday! Nobody said that, yet,
tonight. Happy birthday, NASA. Happy 50th.
Some of us here this evening were at the beginning of the days of NASA. It
was preceded by the old NACA, the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics. Neil, who you'll hear from in a few moments, I think, even predates
me with association there because he was flying for NACA at
Cleveland and out in the desert At Dryden even before I became a member
of the group.
We go back to where the old headquarters was off the corner of Lafayette
Park. That was where NACA was headquartered at that time – a single
house over there – and that was the headquarters for NACA.
You know, if you could just stop and say what do we think are a couple of
things that made this country great, that let us develop in a very short period
of time, in just about 120 years, into the leading nation in the whole world?
Well, if you thought about it for a little while, I think most people would
think education – that became general in this country – it was for everybody,
it wasn't just for the privileged or for those "kids in the castle" as it might
have been in previous ages. But in this country, education came to be for
everyone.
But number two, then, would just about have to be the fact that this nation
put more into basic research – basic, fundamental learning the new things
first. And that's what took us then from a country over here that was
separated from most of the rest of the world, and yet we became a world
leader in about 120 years.
In my view, the old NACA and its subsequent successor, NASA, just
exemplifies what I'm talking about with that.
The Wright brothers in 1903 made the first flight when other nations were
trying, also. But following that, our nation decided as a government decided
to do basic research in this new era of flight. NACA was formed in 1915 and
they looked at airfoils and aerodynamic shapes. It looked at wind tunnels
with high and low capacity. They looked at structures and looked at handling
characteristics of airplanes and spins and all the things that do with aviation,
including such things like metallurgy for engines, so that they became more
reliable.
And then, that had a spinoff of its own into such things as even make those
metals available for longer-lasting plows on the farms and for new bearings
on cars so you didn't have to wait so long to break them in.
What happened next was that the private investment in this country took
over with what those facts were that government has sponsored during the
old NACA. We had companies come out like Martin and Lockheed and
North American and Douglas, Northrop, and of course, Boeing, which
became the supplier of airliners to the world and opened whole new vistas
that revolutionized world interests with their ability to take people and travel
greater distances in a short period of time.
And yet World War II and all the thousands upon thousands of airplanes that
used that NACA data to make the world's greatest air forces in whatever
service they served in. It all came about because of some of that NACA
research work that had been done earlier.
Well, that's the NASA heritage. NACA went out of existence after Sputnik.
President Eisenhower decided that we needed somebody to get into this act
ourselves. We were behind. And so, it was President Eisenhower that
sponsored NASA and it became not NACA but the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration. And that was added to the other NASA missions.
And so we started the manned space program exactly 50 years ago, and it
was in the depths of the Cold War, and we remember very, very well the
Soviets claiming research and technical superiority to the United States.
Thousands of students being educated in the Soviet Union and send back to
their countries. And us, trying to play catch up. Their boosters worked and
ours, too often were blowing up on the launch pad.
So, they had beat us into orbit. But we did come back. And we came back
with Mercury in the suborbital flight in '61, the orbital flight in '62. Gemini
taught us how to rendezvous. Apollo, with Neil, made that incredible first
step on the moon that that you saw in the footprint a little while ago – I
always get Goosebumps every time I see that thing.
In 1973, we had a space lab. And it started real, big-time research. Not just
traveling, but big-time research, and started us out on a track of benefits that
would benefit us right here on Earth.
In '86 we were reminded of what a dangerous business this can be if we're
not careful, when we had the Challenger accident. In '98 we started a space
station and later it became the International Space Station with 15 other
nations with us. And it because a long-term research into benefits for people
right here on Earth, if we just used that new laboratory in space, which we've
never had the opportunity to use before.
NASA planned at that time to get into biotechnology, combustion research,
fluid physics, fundamental physics, materials science. But in January of '04
the President announced – the President directed – a new mission for NASA.
It was to go to the moon and to Mars.
And everybody went along with that. I went along with that. I thought it was
great except for one thing – the money didn't follow. We had no plans for
new money. And Mike Griffin, who you'll hear from later, was given what I
view as an almost impossible job – do everything you're doing now at
NASA that has worked out so well for the benefit of this country, but add to
it just a couple of little projects like going on to moon and to Mars.
Well, he had no choice but to some things like cutting research in certain
areas. So today we have a station up there that's just about to be completed
in a year or so. We will have spent have spent just over $100 billion – that's
"b" – but we're not using it for the type research we should use it for because
we don't have the money for that.
I've always viewed spaceflight as being for two purposes. Both of them are
for research. One is macro research and one is micro research, and I think
they go hand-in-hand, or should, if we're going to get the major benefits out
of everything that we do in space.
Macro research is the exploration. Going out farther. Learning how to go to
different places. Just to traveling to different places – what we learn from
just doing that, and from building the spacecraft and the facilities to go to
those different places.
But along with that goes the micro research that I think is equally important.
But we have to save more to do any of that research now. We even have to
cut out our own transport to the International Space Station for a number of
years after we retire the shuttle in 2010.
Well, that sounds a little gloomy but I certainly remain an optimist, even at
this late date, to be able to get enough money to restore what I would see as
a balanced, and which I believe most people would see as a better balance.
It's an appropriate follow-on to NACA and NASA's past – a past that is also
the key to America's future and to America's continued world leadership.
Where we go in exploration is certainly important. But what we learn and
benefit from each of those steps along the way will benefit every man,
woman and child in our nation, and eventually around the world.
The next 50? Who knows. But I'm convinced it's going to be great.
Happy birthday NASA! Thank you.

Sources NASA

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Merci Astroman, superbe document (mais dommage qu'il faille Quicktime Pro - payant - pour pouvoir l'enregistrer ...)

Patrick R7 a écrit:

Merci Astroman, superbe document (mais dommage qu'il faille Quicktime Pro - payant - pour pouvoir l'enregistrer ...)

Il suffit de télécharger le fichier, plutôt que de le regarder dans son navigateur...

Patrick R7 a écrit:

Merci Astroman, superbe document (mais dommage qu'il faille Quicktime Pro - payant - pour pouvoir l'enregistrer ...)

Mic8 a écrit:

Il suffit de télécharger le fichier, plutôt que de le regarder dans son navigateur...

OK, mais à partir de quelle adresse, car le lien donné ici conduit directement sur le film ... ?

Patrick R7 a écrit:

OK, mais à partir de quelle adresse, car le lien donné ici conduit directement sur le film ... ?

La même: sur le lien, CTRL-Clic, et choisir "Télécharger le fichier lié".
Ou glisser le lien sur la fenêtre de téléchargement
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Patrick R7 a écrit:

OK, mais à partir de quelle adresse, car le lien donné ici conduit directement sur le film ... ?

Mic8 a écrit:

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tu vois que l'informatique a ses têtes

Voici ce que j'obtiens en faisant la manip'

au temps pour moi ... je viens de voir que le fichier était chargé ...

J'avais juste oublié de laisser le temps du téléchargement de 135 Mo

Un grand merci, donc

No problemo

merci également ... comme d'hab il faut m'expliquer lontemps pour que ça imprime