To a distant day: the rocket pioneers
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Main Author: Gainor, Chris (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press ©2008
Series:Outward odyssey
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index
List of illustrations -- - Foreword -- - Preface and acknowledgments -- - Acronyms and abbreviations -- - 1 - Space dreams and war drums -- - 2 - Tsiolkovsky and the birth of Soviet astronautics -- - 3 - Robert Goddard's solitary trail -- - 4 - Hermann Oberth and early German rocketry -- - 5 - Von Braun, Dornberger, and World War II -- - 6 - Rockets, balloons, and the right stuff -- - 7 - Korolev and the first ICBM -- - 8 - The military-industrial complex -- - 9 - Sputniks and Muttniks -- - 10 - The birth of NASA -- - 11 - Man in space soonest -- - Epilogue: July 16, 1969 -- - Sources -- - Index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 236 pages)
ISBN:0803222580
9780803222588

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