Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Armstrong, W. O..
A description is given of a research and development program on the space shuttle mission designed to prepare the way for possible commercial manufacturing operations on permanently orbiting space stations.
Manned space flight missions in next decade, discussing potential payloads and compatibility to proposed mission structure
Following two years of relatively low-level exploratory work, the Materials Science and Manufacturing in Space program is now in a phase of expansion toward higher levels of effort. The main thrust of this effort is toward initiation of a research and development program on the Space Shuttle missions that can prepare the way for possible commercial manufacturing operations on permanently orbiting space stations. Experiment capabilities currently being planned for the Space Shuttle will be based on an inventory of reusable general-purpose equipment that can be configured in many different ways to meet individual experiment requirements. It is expected that this approach can support very large numbers of experiments and make flight opportunities accessible to many potential experimenters who would not be prepared to involve themselves in the development of flight hardware.
Materials science and manufacturing in space, discussing potential technologies and laboratory techniques using vacuum, weightlessness, temperature and radiation environment
Biomedical, physical science, and engineering experiments initiated by mercury project
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Static longitudinal aerodynamics of wing and blunt body shapes for use as reentry configurations at hypersonic speed and angles of attack up to 90-deg
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Movable tail surface for aircraft control without flutter using X-15 scale model at hypersonic speed
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