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In this volume, a wide array of scholars turn a critical eye toward NASA’s first 50 years.

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...50 YEARS HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data NASA's first 50 years : historical perspectives ... ...e a hundred thingsYou have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swungHigh in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,I’ve chased the shouting wind along, ... ...utting ThemesChapter 3 // Robert R. MacGregorImagining an Aerospace Agency in the Atomic Age 31Chapter 4 // W. Henry Lambri... ...he Supersonic-Hypersonic Frontier 223PART IV: Human Spaceflight and Life SciencesChapter 11 // John M. LogsdonFifty Years of Hu... ...eflight and Life SciencesChapter 11 // John M. LogsdonFifty Years of Human Spaceflight: Why Is There Still a Controversy? 275Chapter 1... ... J. NeufeldThe “Von Braun Paradigm” and NASA’s Long-Term Planning forHuman Spaceflight 325Chapter 14 // Maura... ...repreneurs in Government (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990). 49 NASA’s First 50 Years ... ...ics and Technical Choice (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990). 56 Leading in Space I... ... director. Griffin could plan,but not implement. Support further eroded in 1990 when the Hubble SpaceTelescope went up. It provided blurred images and...

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...Psychology ofSpace ExplorationContemporary Research in Historical PerspectiveEdited by Douglas A. VakochThe NASA History Series... ...eWashington, DC2011NASA SP-2011-4411 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Psychology of space exploration : contemporary r... ...cation Data Psychology of space exploration : contemporary research in historical perspective / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch. p. c... ...ssel, Department of Occupational Therapy, Providence Health CareChapter 8. Spaceflight and Cross-Cultural Psychology 177 ... ...redfrom NASA. Interest in psychosocial adaptation was rekindled in the mid-1990s whenastronauts joined cosmonauts on the Russian space station Mir. NA... ...national Ergonomics Association: Its First 30 Years,” Ergonomics33, no. 3 (1990): 275–282. 5Psycho... ...rthright about medical and biolog- ical insights gained from previous spaceflights . . . the agency has been hesitant on studying or releasi... ... has failed to capitalize on the data it collected that could improve spaceflight and living for others to follow.12 In the early 1990s, o... ...improve spaceflight and living for others to follow.12 In the early 1990s, outgoing flight surgeon and psychiatrist Patricia Santy con-cluded t...

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...Baliwag, a not so small town in the Philippines that shared much to World History. The less known role it played on the lives of people from the stone age, Spanish conquest, The Spanish-American War, The Pilipino-American War, World War 2. This compilati...

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...The Spanish-American War page 354 14. Philippine-American War page 356 Table of Contents Volume 2 of 5 1. Preface 447 2. The First Town Election in Asia 450 3. The New York Times Coverage of the War 456 4. The United States Indemnify Spain for $20 million 476 5. The Philippines an Integral part of the United States of America 508 6. Why we fight the Filipinos 524 ...

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... This History Compilation Book Is For You….. Baliwag Mid 1990’s Dedicated to the Future Generations ofBaliwagIt is now better known ... ...nternet and citizen. It is defined asan entity or person actively involved in online communities and a user of the Internet,especially an avid one.[1]... ...Internet,especially an avid one.[1][2] The term can also imply an interest in improving the Internet,especially in regard to open access and free spee... ... and Information. Collection of the History Records and Information began in the year 2000. We believe that we don’t write history, but rather put t... ... Volume 5 of 51. Preface 23132. Ano 1990 Towards The Realm of IT 23173. Ano 2000 The Power o... ... 2336  Bruce, Robert V. (1990), Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, ... ...ltra DeepField | Mars Exploration Rovers| The first privately funded human spaceflight | Facebookis launched | World's first 1 gigabyte SD card | Lond... ...ASA's Orion spacecraft | VirginGalactic begins offering private suborbital spaceflights | The first test launch of the FalconHeavy | The MAVEN probe a...

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...ashington, DC May 2009 NASA SP-2009-4110Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataChertok, B. E. (Boris Evseevich), 1912– [Rakety i lyu... ...ar 1 2 Preparation for Piloted Flights 15 3 The First Piloted Spaceflight: “We’re Off” 55 4 The Cuban Missile Crisis . . . and M... ... 41515 The Molniya-1 Communications Satellite 45316 Molniya-1 in Space (and more) 49117 Korolev’s Last Days, Death, and Funeral ... ...85 viiSeries Introduction In an extraordinary century, Academician Boris Yevseyevich Chertokhas lived... ...ms to explore space, it also prompts us toreconsider the entire history of spaceflight, both Russian and American. Chertok’s narrative underlines how... ...tation and Plunder in PostwarGermany (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990). ixRockets and People... ...”2 Such an achievement woulddemonstrate American supremacy in the arena of spaceflight at a time whenboth American and Soviet politicians believed tha... ...heRussian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation in the early 1990sunder the series, Dorogi v kosmos (Roads to Space), provided an undeni... ...nist era. Memoirs constituted a large part of thesecond generation. In the 1990s, when it was finally possible to write candidlyabout Soviet space his...

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In the last volume of this series, the Russian spacecraft designer Boris Chertok continues his narrative on the history of the Soviet space program.

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... Office Washington, DC NASA SP-2011-4110Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataChertok, B. E. (Boris Evseevich), 1912– [Rakety i ly... ... 101 5 N1-L3 Control 117 6 We’re Behind, but We’re Not Giving In 133 7 KORD and ATG 145 8 Once Again We’re Ahead of the... ...t Summer of 1971 357 17 The Last N-1 Launch 409 18 People in the Control Loop 449 19 Valentin Glushko, N-1, and NPO Energiya ... ...ms to explore space, it also prompts us to reconsider the entirehistory of spaceflight, both Russian and American. Chertok’s narrative underlines ho... ...”2 Such an achievement woulddemonstrate American supremacy in the arena of spaceflight at a time whenboth American and Soviet politicians believed tha... ...tation and Plunder in PostwarGermany (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990). 2. U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Scien... ...e Russian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation in the early 1990s under the series Dorogi v kosmos[Roads to Space] provided an undeniab... ...nist era. Memoirs constituted a large part of thesecond generation. In the 1990s, when it was finally possible to write candidly 13. For the American... ...s, also gave scholars a candid look at the vicissitudes of the Soviethuman spaceflight program.17 The flood of works in Russian allowed Westerners t...

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... by Michael MeltzerNASA SP-2011-4234 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataMeltzer, Michael. When biospheres collide : a history of... ...e Must Protect Planetary Environments 1Chapter 2: In the Beginning: The Need for Planetary Protection Is Recognized ... ...LIST OF FIGURESImage Page Description2.1 17 Joshua Lederberg in a laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, October 1958. (N... ...e personal. As part ofmy laboratory’s research on muscle atrophy, my first spaceflight exper-iment was flown on the last mission of the Space Shuttle ... ... returns to Mars projects, examining the orbiter andlander missions of the 1990s and 21st century. Methods of estimatingpotential propagation of Earth... ...he evolution of Mars planetary protection policy fromthe 1970s through the 1990s and to the present day is reviewed, andthe problems inherent in Mars ... ...the first artifi-cial satellite. The USSR’s first official plan for future spaceflight wasissued on 30 January 1956, which called for orbiting satelli... ...ued on 30 January 1956, which called for orbiting satellites by 1958,human spaceflight by 1964, and reconnaissance satellites by 1970.3 The Sputniks... ... Engineering,” in Moral Expertise, ed. D. MacNiven (New York: Routledge, 1990), pp. 184–197.191. Martyn J. Fogg, “The Ethical Dimensions of Space Se...

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...To lead the US Air Force into the future, it is necessary to understand the past and present nature of the force. With this in mind, Air Force leaders have always sought to arm members of the force with a basic knowledge and understanding of Air Force culture and history. This volume is a contribution to that ongoing educational process, but as ...

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...ing how the US Air Force became what it is today: The most powerful mil-itary force in the history of the world. And as our Air Force continues to gro... ... recent operations, aircraft, and sig-nificant personalities that were not included in the 1999 edition. Additionally, the 1999 edi-tion included sepa... ...edi-tion included separate sections on significant operations and personalities but in this revisededition operations and personalities have been merg... ...the original seven Mercury astronauts. He spent over five hours in space on two spaceflights. In 1961, Grissom flew aboard Mercury 4. He became th... ... the original seven Mercury astronauts. He spent over 216 hours in space on one spaceflight. In 1975 Slayton flew aboard the Apollo-Soyuz Test... ..., where heTorrijos-Tocumen Airport near Panama City. surrendered on 3 January 1990. Fighting hadForty-five hundred paratroopers dropped in the ... ...d not officially end until 4 Februarysince World War II. MAC transports also 1990. A few figures convey the scale of thebrought five companies ... ...ff of the US Air He was also a leading advocate for the CompositeForce in late 1990. Wing concept that combined several differ...

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Volume two of Boris Chertok's accounts of the people who were behind the Russian accomplishments in exploring space.

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... Yekaterina Semyonova Golubkina.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataChertok, B. E. (Boris Evseevich), 1912– [Rakety i lyudi... ...43526 Back at RNII 45727 The Great Merger 47728 First School of Control in Space 49129 Ye-2 Flies to the Moon and We Fly to Koshka 51930 The Begi... ...s 597 Index 643 viiSeries Introduction In an extraordinary century, Academician Boris Yevseyevich Chertok lived an... ...ms to explorespace, it also prompts us to reconsider the entire history of spaceflight, both Russianand American. Chertok’s narrative underlines how, ... ...tation and Plunder in Postwar Germany(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990).Rockets and People: Creating a Rocket Industry ... ...institutional or technical details in his writings. What the statearena of spaceflight at a time when both American and Soviet politicians believed ... ... of Scientific-Technical Documentation in the early 1990s under the series, Dorogi Chertok’s reminiscences are remarkably shar... ...nd restatement. Few historians in the tion. In the 1990s, when it was finally possible to write candidly about Soviet spacetwe... ...anium procurement for the A-bomb project.23 In many cases,the Soviet human spaceflight program.17 memoirs ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Early Developments in Rocketry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rocket Dev... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Air and Sea Precedents in Developing Space Law . . . . . . . . . 29 Limitations of... ...ctrine for Space Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Differences in Service Doctrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 No... ...finally published in 903, it laid the frame- work for orbital spaceflight using rockets based on years of his c... ...dpropulsion. 20 Hauling the pieces and parts of the space station will require 45 spaceflights on five types of launch vehicles over a five-year perio... ...arch Panel,” 8. 78. H. J. P. Arnold, ed., Man in Space: An Illustrated History of Spaceflight (New York: CLB SmithmarkPublishing, 993), 44–46. 79. Ib... ...ember 1989 as National Security Directive (NSD) 30, and up-dated in a 5 September 1990 supplement, the Bush administration’s nationalspace policy reta... ...us “on how satellite systemsenhance warfighting.”29 OPLAN 1002-90, begun in March 1990, was to serve as a blueprint for a war with Iraq: Annex N to ... ...lors and Marines.”32 Although planning for the WGS constellation began during the 1990s, the first WGSwas successfully launched on 10 October 2007 and...

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...In China as Peer Competitor? Trends in Nuclear Weapons, Space, and Information Warfare Lt Col Kathryn L. Gauthier analyzes the potential for China to emerge as a peer competitor of the United States in the coming decades. Fir...

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... AIR WAR COLLEGE AIR UNIVERSITYChina as Peer Competitor? Trends in Nuclear Weapons, Space, and Information Warfare KATHRYN L. G... ...r public release: distribution unlimited. ii Foreword In China as Peer Competitor? Trends in Nuclear Weapons,Space, and Inf... ...es the potential for China to emerge as a peer com -petitor of the United States in the coming decades. First,she examines two traditional pillars of ... ...mediate-range missiles, and limited theirantiballistic missile systems.36 In the 1990s Beijing hascome to recognize that it derives both political and... ...llites. Two Feng Yun-1 satelliteslaunched into sun-synchronous orbit in 1988 and 1990subsequently suffered problems in orbit, but the June1997 launch ... ...w launch pad is being con -structed at this site, reportedly to support a manned spaceflight program.85 The Xichang launch center in southChina (28N/1... ... first foreign14 CHINA AS PEER COMPETITOR?commercial launch (AsiaSat 1) in April 1990. 87 The nation’snewest launch facility, Taiyuan, is located in n...

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...orce Base, Alabama September 1999Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataBeyond the paths of heaven : the emergence of space po... .... . . 265 28 Ground Resolution Requirements for Object Identification (in meters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 29 Landsat and SPOT Spectr... ... . . . . . . . . . 266 29 Landsat and SPOT Spectral Band Applications (in microns) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 30 Civil/ Milit... ...n the aerospace industry. United States’s airlines lost over$10 billion from 1990 to 1992 and layoffs in both the airlinesand aerospace manufacturing ... ... percent by value of those goods—apercentage value that doubled from 1970 to 1990. As a manu-facturing industry, maritime concerns generate only one-e... ... 96,571 53,178 6,262 21,036 16,095 1990 134,375 60,502 11,097 40,379 ... ...ility down, According to W. PaulBlase, “The First Reusable SSTO Spacecraft,” Spaceflight, March 1993, 91,as you approach the limits of performance, ev... ...nous, sun-synchronous, and Molniya orbits are exam -ples. William E. Wiesel, Spaceflight Dynamics (New York: McGraw Hill,1989), chap. 3 and 66–67. Ove... ...echt, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.Wiesel, William E. Spaceflight Dynamics. New York: McGraw Hill, 1989.ArticlesBerkowitz, Br...

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...In GPS and Galileo: Friendly Foes?, Lt Col Roftiel Constantine, United States Air Force (USAF), analyzes the heated competition to provide service from high in the skies of medium earth orbit. The European Union (EU) is deve...

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...ther Field, California, getting his com- mission and wings in November 1918. After a tour in the Philippines, he ret... ...n the Philippines, he returned to Langley Field, Virginia, in February 1925 with a subsequent assignment in December ... ... Tactical School. Retained on the faculty as a bombardment in- structor, Walker became the epitome of the ... ...rdance with the Federal Radionavigation Plan, first acti-vated SA in March 1990, much to the dismay of the civil GPSuser community.10 The 1990–91 cri... ...TIONamong coalition forces resulted in a decision to disable SA fromAugust 1990 through 15 November 1991. This was ironic, asSA had been introduced sp... ...t possess a weaponsystem that depended on GPS for guidance.”1 During the 1990s SA presented a problem for such US civil-ian agencies as the Federal ... ...m.Clark, Stephen. “Chinese Long March 3A Rocket Orbits New Sat- ellite.” Spaceflight Now, 4 February 2007. http://www.space .com/missionlaunches/s...

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...THE BUMPER STICKER: REVAMPING AN INCOMPLETE AND CONFUSING MASTER TENET . . . . . . . . .1 Col Rolanda Burnett Sr., USAF 49 THE DANGEROUS DECLINE IN THE US MILITARY’S INFECTIOUS-DISEASE VACCINE PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Col Kenneth E. Hall, USAF 50 LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF THE DECISION FOR WAR: A CASE STUDY . . . . . .39 Lt Col ...

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...e Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama April 2011 This Maxwell Paper and others in the series are available electronically at the Air Un... ... . . . . . . 1 Col Rolanda Burnett Sr., USAF 49 THE DANGEROUS DECLINE IN THE US MILITARY’S INFECTIOUS-DISEASE VACCINE... ...D THE INTERNET: A 21ST CENTURY ISSUE: LEGAL, DOCTRINAL, AND POLICY CHALLENGES IN THE CYBER WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . 69 ... ...ry preventive medicine. Lt Col Lars Helmrich has been a pilot in the Swedish Air Forcesince 1990. Colonel Helmrich has served as commander of a Gripe... ...ingham; J. A. Mowbray, PhD; Lt Col David McIsaac, USAF, retired; andCharles Westenhoff, Fall 1990, Maxwell AFB, AL. (Personal collection of J. A. Mowb... ...sease vaccine program has lost considerable emphasis,funding, and mission capability. In the 1990s, with the burgeoningconcern for weaponized bioagent... ... thatdestroyed Fengyun-1C in January 2007 was the worst fragmentationevent in the history of spaceflight. This event added “2,400 pieces ofpotentially... ...Operations Center (JSpOC), NASA made five collision-avoidance maneuvers to protect its human spaceflight missions andmaneuverable robotic assets.13 In...

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...hose seeking to understand elements contributing to spacepower. More importantly, it offers a view of what spacepower will mean for the United States in the coming decades. I believe Ten Propositions Regarding Spacepower will live up to its aim: assisting political leaders, military professionals, and interested citizens to understand better the nature of space as a sourc...

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... are monograph-length essays of value to theAir Force. The series is named in honor of Muir S. Fairchild, thefirst commander of Air University and the... ...r public re-lease: distribution unlimited. This Fairchild Paper and others in the series are available electron- ically at the AU Press Web site http:... ...ntly, it offers a view of what space-power will mean for the United States in the coming decades. I believe Ten Propositions Regarding Spacepower will... ... and a formal defi-nition is probably not forthcoming. From the genesis of spaceflight, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wishedto define... ...-tering the equivalent of today’s undergraduate space trainingin the early 1990s read the following in their basic text: If trying to define where spa... ...dustry, and the stock markets be-came heavy users of space services in the 1990s. Whether thecommercial sector understands the threat, or wants protec... ...licy decision making. When Gen Charles A.Horner was USCINCSPACE in the mid-1990s, the chairman ofthe Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Sam Nunn (D... ...ese missions, and they are funded by the government.Examples include human spaceflight missions conductedunder the Apollo, Skylab, and International S... ...rests.Civil Space Sector The civil space sector does much more than manned spaceflight and space exploration for scientific curiosity. It is a driv-in...

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... The Political Feasibility of Nuclear Power in Space Thank you for your assistance.COLLEGE OF AE... ...TY Flying Reactors The Political Feasibility of Nuclear Power in Space JAMES R. DOWNEY Lieutenant Colonel, USAFR A... ...ney, James R. Flying reactors : the political feasibility of nuclear power in space / James R.Downey, Anthony M. Forestier, David E. Miller. —p. ; cm.... ...the RAAF Command and StaffCollege, and was a chief of Air Force Fellows in 1990 where hepublished a monograph Into the Fourth Dimension: A Guide toSpa... ...nd politics within the historical context. From the 1950s through the late 1990s, there was no com-pelling requirement for power in space that an alte... ... DOWNEY, FORESTIER, AND MILLER 1985 1988 1990 1992 1995 1997 1999 2001 0 ... ... practical matter, this means acknowledging that space nuclear power, like spaceflight in general, is not “safe” in any absolute sense. The issue rath...

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... J. Dick and Mark L. LupisellaNASA SP-2009-4802 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cos... ...ck 399Chapter 12 – Douglas A. VakochEncoding Our OriginsCommunicating the Evolutionary Epic in Interstellar Messages ... ...olution, the idea that the universe and its constituent parts areconstantly evolving, has become widely accepted only in the last 50 years. Itis no co... ... not properly represented, but perhaps will be in the future. This book is one of several on the societal impact of spaceflight in theNASA History S... ...: Cambridge University Press, 1986); and Karl S. Guthke, The Last Frontier (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990).2. Steven J. Dick and Jam... ...ogy (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004). This volume shows how astrobiology developed in the mid- 1990s out of NASA’s exobiology p... ...hile utilizing enriched flowsof energy density—from the Wright engine of the early 1900s to the F-117Nighthawk of the 1990s. Automobiles, from the pio... ...tion of whetherquestions of terrestrial environmental ethics should be extended to the cosmicstage. In the context of spaceflight, human interaction i... ...rved as editor; America in Space: NASA’s First 50 Years(with Neil Armstrong et al., Abrams, 2007); Societal Impact of Spaceflight(NASA SP-2007-4801, e...

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...agency. Cleared for public release:distribution unlimited. This Drew Paper and others in the series are available electronically at the Air Univer... ...pers to commemorate the dis-tinguished career of Col Dennis “Denny” Drew, USAF, retired.In 30 years at Air University, Colonel Drew served on the AirC... ... one of the AirForce’s most extensively published authors and an interna-tional speaker in high demand. He has lectured to over 100,000students at Air... ...ave come to thesame conclusions as we that no Great Power can afford not tohave a human spaceflight capability, to ignore the military forcemultiplier... ...deter-rence as a method.”4 However, it was the policy of engagement,which peaked in the 1990s, that has propelled economic global-ization and has made... ...including an unprecedented 19-nationunmanned mission to Mars, took place throughout the 1990s.14With few exceptions, when it comes to national securit... ... long-standing. Historically, economic sanctions have a poor recordof accomplishment. A 1990 study by the Institute for Interna-tional Economics concl... ... the US launch industry.19 Daniel Sacotte, thehead of the European Space Agency’s Human Spaceflight pro-gram, believes export controls have made coope... ....Liu, Zhiyong, and Huang Qiaolin. “The CMOS Camera in Mic- rosatellite Applications.” Spaceflight Return and Remote Sensing, February 2003.Lowe, C...