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I had a book back in 1950s with beautiful pictures of a proposed space station. Lost the book over the years and would love to have another. I need to see a picture to see if this is the one. ... Read more

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Visits the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center where astronauts receive training and space flights are monitored using computers, flight control consoles, and other special equipment. ... Read more

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Describes the current work done on the space shuttle at various facilities at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and provides a brief overview of the U.S. space program and its goals for the future. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Industrial Engineer, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on July 1, 2010. The length of the article is 450 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Work perfect: the day we strive for.(Ellen Brown from John F. Kennedy Space Center)(Occupation overview)
Author: David Brandt
Publication: Industrial Engineer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2010
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE)
Volume: 42Issue: 7Page: 66(1)

Article Type: Occupation overview

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An historical account about homesteading on Merritt Island, Florida from 1895 until President John F. Kennedy committed the land for the exploration of space in 1961. Filled with many family photographs and memorabilia. Both sets of the authors grandparents met, married and lived and raised seven children on the north end of Merritt Island. Learn what they experienced in a wild environment before the land was truly developed. ... Read more

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Philosophers have often reflected on the Ancient Greeks' concepts of time, but an anthropological approach is necessary to understand their practical concept of time as tied to space. The Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social practice of the present. Hesiod's history of humanity was intended to establish justice in the modern city; Bacchylides sang the celebration of the Athenian hero Theseus in a present-day cultic and ideological framework; the city of Cyrene used the heroic act of its founding to reaffirm its civic identity; and the Greeks embossed poetic texts on leaves of gold to ensure the ritual passage of the dead to a blessed afterlife. Explicating these examples, Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece shows how the Ancient Greeks' collective memory was based on a remarkable faculty for the creation of ritual and narrative symbols.

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Florida’s Space Coast tells the compelling story ofAmerica’s half century in space exploration, from the successfullaunch of the first two-stage rocket in 1950 through the latest spaceshuttle missions of 2000. Told from the unique viewpoint of the peoplewho built the Spaceport, this book shows how the space programtransformed the east central Florida coast from a traditional citrusproduction and tourist area to one of the most influential high-techcenters in the nation.

Cape Canaveral was chosen as a missile launch site because of its many geographical advantages. However, in the early years of the space program, the area was far from an ideal place for NASA employees to raise their families. NASA brought in thousands of space-related workers, who, besides sending machines and men into space, had to meet the challenge of moving their families from urban environs to a rural southern county. This book engagingly recounts the parallel stories of the establishment of America’s space program and its impact on the development of Brevard County.

Florida’s Space Coast joins the popular list of space history titles from the University Press of Florida, which include "Before This Decade is Out . . . ," Gateway to the Moon, and Moon Launch! ... Read more

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Our view of our Galaxy has recently been undergoing anincreasing divergence from the traditional standpoint. In this bookten authors discuss in eight chapters how the conceptions of the MilkyWay have moved in new directions. Starting with the inner parsec andthe Center of the Galaxy, the book gradually moves on to the bulge andits relation to the globular clusters and to the disk, of which thepresence of a bar is argued.
A new look on the HI distribution in the disk, a synthesis ofmolecular line surveys and the study of stellar populations arediscussed in the last three chapters.
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This book is the work of two very bright scholars who live near the Marshall Space Flight Center.The work is well written and thorough.I found the authors investigation of the Challenger accident and its aftermath particularly well done.I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

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The shopping mall seems an unlikely place to go for health care services. Yet, the mall has become home to such services as well as a model forredesigning other health care facilities. In Medicine Moves to the Mall, David Charles Sloane and Beverlie Conant Sloane document the historical changes to our health care landscape by exploring the interactions between medicine and place.This unique combination of architectural history and the history of medicine provides a thought-provoking analysis of the geography of the practice of medicine.

The book presents three essays, each accompanied by a gallery of historical and recent photos.The authors discuss therise of modern hospitals and how they were shaped into scientifically sterile and humanly stark "medical workshops."Starting in the 1970s, hospital facilities were altered in appearance to become more friendly and welcoming.The integration of a shopping mall's spaciousness and open design with technology and scientific innovation served in "humanizing the hospital."Most recently, the accessibility and convenience of shopping center and roadside clinics have invited Americans to go "shopping for health" in the increasingly commercialized medical system.

Medicine Moves to the Mall will appeal to scholars and professionals in fields ranging from health care to cultural geography and from urban studies to architectural history, as well as to readers interested in the shifting status of medicine in American society. ... Read more