16.00 | Spring 2003 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Aerospace Engineering and Design

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Chapter 1

Pg. 1 – NASA History Office Home Page      
Pg. 2 – Montgolfier Lighter-Than-Air Balloon      
Pg. 3 – Santos-Dumont’s dirigible flying by the Eiffel Tower      
Pg. 4 – On-line Ballooning      
Pg. 4 – National Air and Space Musuem Collections      
Pg. 4 – NASA Historical Archives for Manned Missions      
Pg. 5 – Women in Aviation and Space History      
Pg. 8 – The Boeing Clipper      
Pg. 10 – MiG 15 Fighter of the Soviet Air Force      
Pg. 10 – The Concorde Supersonic Airliner      
Pg. 10 – The Boeing 747-100      
Pg. 10 – The Airbus A320      
Pg. 12 – NASA Image Exchange      
Pg. 12 – NASA Langley Research Center - Multimedia Repository      
Pg. 13 – Sputnik      
Pg. 13 – The New York Times on AOL: Sputnik

Chapter 2

Pg. 23 – Neolithic Technology      
Pg. 24 – The First Suez Canal      
Pg. 24 – An Egyptian Model Airplane      
Pg. 25 – A Dark Age      
Pg. 25 – Committee for Research and Exploration @ nationalgeographic.com      
Pg. 29 – Draper Laboratory      
Pg. 32 – Boeing 777      
Pg. 32 – Taurus Star-forming Cloud

Chapter 3

Pg. 37 – Baden Baden-Powell      
Pg. 40 – FoilSim      
Pg. 50 – Aerodynamic Forces      
Pg. 55 – Advanced Fluid Flow      
Pg. 58 – FoilSim

Chapter 6

Pg. 123 – Beginner’s Guide to Propulsion

Chapter 8

Pg. 179 – Magnetic Features on the Sun Movie      
Pg. 186 – ALH84001 Main Sample Page      
Pg. 190 – Mars Pathfinder Home

Chapter 10

Pg. 218 – Boeing Satellite System, Inc.

Chapter 11

Pg. 252 – International Space Station      
Pg. 257 – Timeline of Planetary Exploration Missions      
Pg. 257 – History of Space Suits

Chapter 12

Pg. 296 – A New Architectural Eye

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