It is even possible to use lost wax casting to pour your gold into peculiar shapes. Little miners, eagles, gold picks made of real gold are all possibilities-and of course the more standard jewelry. The art of lost wax casting is a whole field of study in and of itself.
An Act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes.. With this simple preamble, the Congress and the President of the United States created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA's birth was directly related to the pressures of national defense.
Photographs from Dorothy Vaughan's retirement party. Vaughan retired from NASA in 1971. Dorothy Vaughan began her career at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory's segregated West Area Computing unit and was promoted to lead the group, making her the NACA's first black supervisor, and one of the NACA's few female supervisors.