NASA HISTORIAN WINS BOOK AWARD.Byline: Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - Michael H. Gorn, chief historian at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Hugh L. , has been selected by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of four earlier societies: the American Rocket Society (ARS), founded in 1930 as the for its 2004 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award. Gorn was honored for his book ``Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at NACA and NASA.'' The Gardner-Lasser award is presented annually for the best original contribution to aeronautical or astronautic nonfiction historical literature published in the past five years that deals with the science, technology or impact of aeronautics and astronautics on society. Gorn's work, published in 2001 by the University Press of Kentucky The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press. The university had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. , is the first major book to explore the full history of flight research. It covers Sir George Cayley's experiments with kites and gliders in 19th-century England, the Wright brothers, the creation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics “NACA” redirects here. For other uses, see NACA (disambiguation). The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. and the aeronautical research conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ``I decided to write a history of flight research when I realized that none had ever been written,'' Gorn related. ``Very few books cover both the history of NASA and its predecessor institution, the NACA.'' Gorn has worked in the NASA history program since 1997 and became chief historian of the Dryden Flight Research Center in 2001. He is a former Air Force deputy historian and was the first historian of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and . |
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