Wings of Their Dreams:Purdue in Flight
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557533628 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
John Norberg, University Relations senior writer at Purdue, is a former 30-year reporter for the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier. He continues to write a weekly human interest column for the newspaper.
Journey to the stars In the early 1950's as an undergraduate at Purdue, I was in one class with Neil Armstrong. There was a "Rocket Society" club at Purdue and I attended some of their meetings not realizing that only one other university had anything like that. Purdue's President, Hovde, had been in charge of U.S. rocket research and so knew what was going to happen. Von Braun sometimes came to campus to give talks. And the mechanical engineering department had focused on developing powerful liqu
It is the story of the human spirit taking flight, entwined with Purdue's legacy in aviation's history.. Throughout flight's first 100 years, Purdue University has propelled unique contributions from pioneer educators, aviators, and engineers who flew balloons into the stratosphere, barnstormed the countryside, helped break the sound barrier, and left footprints in lunar soil. This is the story of an aeronautic odyssey of imagination, science, engineering, technology, adventure, courage, danger and promise. Wings of Their Dreams follows the flight plans and footsteps of aviation's pioneers and trailblazers across the twentieth century, a path from Kitty Hawk to the Sea of Tranquility and beyond. The book reminds readers that the first and last men to land on the moon, first trekked across the West Lafayette , Indiana campus on their journeys into the heavens and history
About the Author John Norberg, University Relations senior writer at Purdue, is a former 30-year reporter for the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier. He continues to write a weekly human interest column for the newspaper.