"Astronautics & Aeronautics" AIAA journal ?

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As said in the tin.

On google books I've find tantalizing glimpses of a (terrific) technical paper, title "Mission to the libration centers"

The exact reference is as follow

H. Hornby and W.H. Allen. Mission to the Libration Centers. Astronautics & Aeronautics, vol.4(7):78–82, 1966.
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Ok so my research tells me, the freakkin' thing should be available at the AIAA Magasine archive, right here.


More exactly, here. https://arc.aiaa.org/toc/aiaaj/4/1

Well... no. NOTHING MATCHES. AAARGH. I'm going crazy.

I've tried every single search tip I could think of - such as looking for "nearby" tech papers. Zippo, nada, zilch. Also tried AIAA own search engine with the authors name or paper title - nada.

Seems that AIAA archive is one hell of a mess... and any help would be extremely welcome !!
 
Archibald said:
H. Hornby and W.H. Allen. Mission to the Libration Centers. Astronautics & Aeronautics, vol.4(7):78–82, 1966.


Ok so my research tells me, the freakkin' thing should be available at the AIAA Magasine archive, right here.
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"Astronautics & Aeronautics" was a magazine that stopped publishing in 1983; AIAA Journal is, well, a journal of technical papers. Two different entities. If you are lucky, a library near you *might* have a stash of A&A:

Astronautics & aeronautics. (Journal, magazine, 1964) [WorldCat.org]

Get this from a library! Astronautics & aeronautics.. [American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.;]
www.worldcat.org

Otherwise... there's always eBay. There is currently one issue of A&A from 1966 on Ebay. Not the right issue, though.
 
...become "Aerospace America"

Our city's BIG Central Library took a most excellent range of mags. Between 'Aerospace America', a raft of Science, Electronics, Computing, Astronomy and Engineering mags, plus literally anything technical I could grok, it would be an intense hour or two before I wandered off to the book shelves...

( IIRC, one of the early planet-formation simulations reported in Icarus spawned what we'd now call 'Hot Jupiters'. Appalled, the authors tweaked their algorithms to exclude such... )

Then the library began culling its subscriptions. Culling, culling, culling...
Game Over.
 
The Greater St Louis Air & Space Museum has a pretty good run of Aeronautics & Astronautics from 1963 to 1983. I'm not calling it a complete run here yet because I've not checked to see if we have every issue for each year. I've checked and we do have the issue you asked about, Archibald. I've talked with Mark Nankivil and he will make better scans than I can make here then co-ordinate with you sometime next week.
 
Okay, I have checked and these are the issues of Astronautics & Aeronautics that WE DO NOT HAVE at the Greater St Louis Air & Space Museum. (This list is much shorter and therefore easier to post.)

1963 - 2,3,10,12
1965 - 4,5
1968 - 7,8
1978 - 12
1979 - 12
1980 - 3,12
1982 - 12
1983 - 1,12

We are not set up as a lending library, we want to be seen more as a reference library.
 
Some context: I'm doing research about libration point rendezvous studies in the Apollo days. EML-1 and EML-2 as alternatives to EOR, Houbolt LOR and Direct Ascent. I've made a list at NASAspaceflight forums.
 
And the reason why I wanted this peculiar article... Lockheed Agena libration point probe concept, to collect dust from EML-5 Kordylewski cloud(s).

Looks familiar ? Asteroid Retrieval Mission, maybe ? The overall concept is essentially similar. Collecting cosmic dust or rocks for solar system studies.

Many thanks again, folks !
 

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Okay, I have checked and these are the issues of Astronautics & Aeronautics that WE DO NOT HAVE at the Greater St Louis Air & Space Museum. (This list is much shorter and therefore easier to post.)

1963 - 2,3,10,12
1965 - 4,5
1968 - 7,8
1978 - 12
1979 - 12
1980 - 3,12
1982 - 12
1983 - 1,12

We are not set up as a lending library, we want to be seen more as a reference library.
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I would give anything to find the 1964 issue that featured my father, Lt Col Howard R. Schmidt as the Engineer who designed the nuclear propulsion method for the unmanned mission to Mars for NASA. I've been periodically searching for it since I was in my 20s. Any help? It's been frustrating, to say the least, when he had dedicated his life to this country, and the only article i can find online is his obituary! He was 91 in Feb. 2012 when Alzheimers finally stole his life.

His 13 page resume lists The USAF, WWII Mechanical Engineer, Managing Directorate for the Rover Program at Nellis. Library of Congress Bronze Star for work he did designing the drop mechanism on the Enola Gay and other aircraft. "Whiz Kid" was displayed prominently on his coffin when he was laid to rest at Arlington National. R&D at Wright-Patt, Langley, Nellis, Andrews, NASA Lockeed Missles & Space Co, USDOT, and The White House as an Aide under Trumen and Eisenhower, The Pentagon: R&D also, and top secret clearance, operating in Intelligence.

I'm almost 60 now and don't have much of anything my father did, designed, developed or Invented, from the inception of an idea to the realization of it coming to fruition, possibly only AFTER his death. I only want to make sure that credit is given and acknowledged where credit is due because my dad was an exceptional human being.
THANKS FOR LISTENING.
 

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