This is a compelling narrative of how American ingenuity solved an international scientific mystery. At the turn of the nineteenth century, even the most experienced mariners were still risking catastrophe when navigating the North American coastline because they lacked accurate navigational charts. The various means available to chart makers of the era to measure longitude, both celestial and terrestrial, could be off by thousands of feet - a deadly margin of error for ships when facing collision against unknown coastal cliffs, reefs, and shoals. In 1807 the United States Coast Survey was...
This is a compelling narrative of how American ingenuity solved an international scientific mystery. At the turn of the nineteenth century, even the m...
On July 16, 1969 at 8:27 am, Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth polled the flight controllers in the Houston Mission Operations Control Room asking for a final GO/NO-GO for the launch of Apollo 11. He ran through his list, "BOOSTER, how are you?" "We're GO, FLIGHT." "EECOM?" "GO, FLIGHT." Finally he reached the fifth call out on his list, "NETWORK, you got it all? Everything up?" "That's affirmative, FLIGHT." A twenty-eight year old U.S. Air Force captain, liberal arts graduate, and history major, sitting in a room full of bona fide rocket scientists, had just committed a worldwide network of...
On July 16, 1969 at 8:27 am, Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth polled the flight controllers in the Houston Mission Operations Control Room asking fo...
