Space & Science

ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE PIONEERS OF AMERICA’S SPACE PROGRAM

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SPACE STORIES: ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE PIONEERS OF AMERICA‘S SPACE PROGRAM   An Oral History Project conducted in conjunction with the Houston Chapter of the AIAA and Honeywell Corporation   Interviewers:   Dr. Robbie Davis-Floyd, Research Fellow, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin Dr. Kenneth J. Cox, NASA Johnson Space Center   Interviewees:   Guy Thibodaux, Maxime Faget, Paul Purser, Clotaire  Wood, Josephine Dibella, Adelbert Tischler, Harry Finger, Chris...

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Storying Corporate Futures: The Shell Scenarios

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Storying Corporate Futures: The Shell Scenarios An Interview with Betty Sue Flowers This chapter appeared in Corporate Futures, Volume V of the Late Editions Series, George Marcus ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Introduction This chapter contains two interviews that I conducted with Betty Sue Flowers about her writing and editing of Shell International’s 1992 and 1995 futures-planning scenarios. I first met Betty Sue at a men’s conference (a la Robert Bly and...

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Bucky Balls, Fullerenes, and the Future:

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Bucky Balls, Fullerenes, and the Future:   An Oral History Interview with Professor Richard E. Smalley   January 22, 2000     Nanotechnology is the art and science of building materials and devices at the ultimate level of finesse: atom by atom. Like a tiny poem with every word and space wisely placed, a thing built by nanotechnology has every atom in its place, and never two where one will do. . . .Today we begin a collaboration with NASA to develop a new kind of nanotechnology,...

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Joint Oral History Interview

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INTERVIEW #2   Interviewees: Guy Thibodaux, Max Faget, Paul Purser Interviewers: Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ken Cox Interview date:  Sept. 10, 1996 at the home of Guy Thibodaux in Clear Lake, Texas   Recap: Interview #1 was with Guy Thibodaux, the engineer and rocket propulsion scientist responsible for the propulsion work on Mercury and many other space projects, at his home near Johnson Space Center in Houston/Clear Lake, on Sept. 9, 1996. The following day we met again at his home, this...

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