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Katherine Johnson's publications at TDRS https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?N=4293878840
@HiddenFigures

@astVintageSpace A great post or video would be about the actual problems the women of @HiddenFigures were solving and the methods they used

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/sky-high-3270307/?all
"NF-104 on a zero-G trajectory through the thin atmosphere at the edge of space for about 80 seconds."



Project Apollo Reentry Simulation ~ 1965 NASA; How Atmospheric Re-entry Was Simulated in the 1960s - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix5SzrPdS7U

iSat: Interactive Satellite Viewer
Is a cool viewer. Zoom in to get a 4 space sense of the ISS orbit above earth.

http://science.nasa.gov/iSat/?group=SMD


"vernier engine throttle settings were controlled using a proportional-plus-derivative
feedback loop closed around the measured vs. desired velocity magnitude as
a function of altitude, represented by the [~parabolic] descent contour"
Surveyor Spacecraft Automatic Landing System
Sam W. Thurman
AAS 04-062
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.504.9417&rep=rep1&type=pdf


http://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/TD/td2703/vetter.pdf
Fifty Years of Orbit Determination: Development of Modern Astrodynamics Methods
Jerome R. Vetter

.@DS_COVR Why no 10 & 11 November EPIC images? New ? http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/