Engineer in Charge; A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958, NASA SP-4305

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1992. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good. xxxviii, 620, [6] pages. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Index. This is one of the NASA History Series. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Ink mark on top edge. Name of previous owner and date inside front cover. James R. Hansen is a professor of history at Auburn University in Alabama.[1] His book From the Ground Up won the History Book Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1988. For his work, The Wind and Beyond (NASA) - (six-volume series), he was awarded the Eugene Ferguson Prize for Outstanding Reference Work by the Society for the History of Technology in 2005. Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley) located in Hampton, Virginia, United States, is the oldest of NASA's field centers. It directly borders Langley Air Force Base and the Back River on the Chesapeake Bay. LaRC has focused primarily on aeronautical research, but has also tested space hardware at the facility, such as the Apollo Lunar Module. In addition, a number of the earliest high-profile space missions were planned and designed on-site. Established in 1917 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the research center devotes two-thirds of its programs to aeronautics, and the rest to space. LaRC researchers use more than 40 wind tunnels to study and improve aircraft and spacecraft safety, performance, and efficiency. Between 1958 and 1963, when NASA (the successor agency to NACA) started Project Mercury, LaRC served as the main office of the Space Task Group.