The 14th volume in the NASA series of day-by-day records of aeronautical and space events has somewhat narrowed its scope and selectivity in its brief accounts from immediately available, open sources. This year the emphasis is even more directly focused on concrete air and space activities. More coverage has, perforce, always been given the national space agencys own activities, plans, and achievements, and that is true of this volume, but the text continues to reflect some events in other agencies and countries. The 1974 Chronology includes fewer examples of public comment and reaction and less technical detail in more condensed summaries. New technological advances in other fields-such as medicine and ground and sea transportation, except when related to NASApsr ograms-have been dropped, as have most death notices. Air and space highlights of the Presidents budget are given in tables in the text. The more routine notices of satellite launches, when little information is available beyond the fact of launch, are now given in Appendix A only, not in the text. Most sounding rocket launches and lifting-body test flights also have been dropped from the text; two new appendixes, Appendixes D and E, present the data in table format. Routine missile and nuclear tests, defense contracts, and disarmament items are no longer covered.
Astronautics and Aeronautics: Chronology on Science, Technology, and Policy, 1974
1977
330 pages
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English