This study represents a means of highlighting the myriad of
technological developments that made possible the safe reentry and
return from space and the landing on Earth. This story extends back
at least to the work of Walter Hohmann and Eugen Sanger in Germany
in the 1920s and involved numerous aerospace engineers at the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)/NASA Langley and
the Lewis (now the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field)
and Ames Research Centers. For example, researchers such as H.
Julian Allen and Alfred J. Eggers, Jr., at Ames pioneered
blunt-body reentry techniques and ablative thermal protection
systems in the 1950s, while Francis M. Rogallo at Langley developed
creative parasail concepts that informed the development of the
recovery systems of numerous reentry vehicles. The chapters that
follow relate in a chronological manner the way in which NASA has
approached the challenge of reentering the atmosphere after a space
mission and the technologies associated with safely dealing with
the friction of this encounter and the methods used for landing
safely on Earth.
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