Webbon Bruce (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Copyright Date: 1981 Sm Quarto, Staplebound, Various, Including The Smallest Spacecraft Is A Carefully Engineered Suit. B & W And Color Photos (illustrator).

Wraps. Condition: Very good. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Brown cover sheet and seven sheets, printed on one side only/7 pages. This is marked Hold for Release Until Presented by Witness July 15, 1997. This testimony discusses NASA technology and its application to assist people with disabilities. Dr. Webbon addresses some of the challenges of taking NASA technology into the disabled community, while highlighting that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had a long history of applying the aerospace technology that had been developed to accomplish its primary mission to help to solve problems on Earth. Many medical devices then in use had their origins in NASA technology. Dr. Webbon provided several specific example of medical assistive device development, including a number that had resulted in successful commercial products. Dr. Webbon ended his testimony by stressing that in accomplishing technology transfer, the most important NASA asset was the technical strength of its staff. NASA's Ames Research Center, one of ten NASA field centers, is located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Since 1939, Ames has led NASA in conducting world-class research and development in aeronautics, exploration technology and science aligned with the center's core capabilities. The ingenuity and problem-solving capabilities of personnel at Ames have affected all our lives in numerous ways, from everyday air travel to how we envision the possibility of life on other worlds. Ames evolved as a special place where state-of-the-art facilities and world-class talent melded to produce cutting-edge research in fields such as aerodynamics, thermodynamics, simulation, space and life sciences, and intelligent systems. Basic and applied research have been cornerstones of Ames since its founding as an aeronautical laboratory. That laboratory was an expansion of the first National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA, facilities at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia, and it transitioned to research center with the advent of NASA in 1958. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…