History of Liquid Rocket Engine Development in the United States, 1955-1980
Author : Stephen E. Doyle
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Astronautics
ISBN :
Author : Stephen E. Doyle
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Astronautics
ISBN :
Author : George Paul Sutton
Publisher : AIAA
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781563476495
Liquid propellant rocket engines have propelled all the manned space flights, all the space vehicles flying to the planets or deep space, virtually all satellites, and the majority of medium range or intercontinental range ballistic missiles.
Author : J. D. Hunley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1603449876
In this definitive study, J. D. Hunley traces the program’s development from Goddard’s early rockets (and the German V-2 missile) through the Titan IVA and the Space Shuttle, with a focus on space-launch vehicles. Since these rockets often evolved from early missiles, he pays considerable attention to missile technology, not as an end in itself, but as a contributor to launch-vehicle technology. Focusing especially on the engineering culture of the program, Hunley communicates this very human side of technological development by means of anecdotes, character sketches, and case studies of problems faced by rocket engineers. He shows how such a highly adaptive approach enabled the evolution of a hugely complicated technology that was impressive—but decidedly not rocket science. Unique in its single-volume coverage of the evolution of launch-vehicle technology from 1926 to 1991, this meticulously researched work will inform scholars and engineers interested in the history of technology and innovation, as well as those specializing in the history of space flight.
Author : Vigor Young
Publisher : AIAA
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Liquid propellant rockets
ISBN : 9781600864186
Annotation Since the invention of the V-2 rocket during World War II, combustion instabilities have been recognized as one of the most difficult problems in the development of liquid propellant rocket engines. This book is the first published in the United States on the subject since NASA's Liquid Rocket Combustion Instability (NASA SP-194) in 1972. In this book, experts cover four major subject areas: engine phenomenology and case studies, fundamental mechanisms of combustion instability, combustion instability analysis, and engine and component testing. Especially noteworthy is the inclusion of technical information from Russia and China--a first.
Author : John Drury Clark
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0813599180
A classic work in the history of science, and described as “a good book on rocket stuff...that’s a really fun one” by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space.
Author : Virginia Parker Dawson
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Centaur rocket
ISBN :
Author : Steven J. Dick
Publisher : U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Law
ISBN :
On 29 July 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which became operational on 1 October of that year. Over the next 50 years, NASA achieved a set of spectacular feats, ranging from advancing the well-established field of aeronautics to pioneering the new fields of Earth and space science and human spaceflight. In the midst of the geopolitical context of the Cold War, 12 Americans walked on the Moon, arriving in peace “for all mankind.” Humans saw their home planet from a new perspective, with unforgettable Apollo images of Earthrise and the “Blue Marble,” as well as the “pale blue dot” from the edge of the solar system. A flotilla of spacecraft has studied Earth, while other spacecraft have probed the depths of the solar system and the universe beyond. In the 1980s, the evolution of aeronautics gave us the first winged human spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station stands as a symbol of human cooperation in space as well as a possible way station to the stars. With the Apollo fire and two Space Shuttle accidents, NASA has also seen the depths of tragedy. In this volume, a wide array of scholars turn a critical eye toward NASA’s first 50 years, probing an institution widely seen as the premier agency for exploration in the world, carrying on a long tradition of exploration by the United States and the human species in general. Fifty years after its founding, NASA finds itself at a crossroads that historical perspectives can only help to illuminate.
Author : Stephen D. Heister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108422276
Equips students with an up-to-date practical knowledge of rocket propulsion, numerous homework problems, and online self-study materials.
Author : Mike Gruntman
Publisher : AIAA
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781563477058
Winner of the Luigi Napolitano Award (2006) from the International Academy of Astronautics This book presents the fascinating story of the events that paved the way to space. It introduces the reader to the history of early rocketry and the subsequent developments that led into the space age. People of various nations and from various lands contributed to the breakthrough to space, and the book takes the reader to faraway places on five continents. It also includes many quotes to give readers a flavor of how the participants viewed the developments. Most publications on the topic either target narrow aspects of rocket history or are popular books that scratch the surface, with minimal and sometimes inaccurate technical details. This book bridges the gap. It contains numerous technical details usually unavailable in popular publications. The details are not overbearing and anyone interested in rocketry and space exploration will navigate through the book without difficulty. There are 340 figures and photographs, many appearing for the first time.
Author : Roger D. Launius
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0813148073
Access—no single word better describes the primary concern of the exploration and development of space. Every participant in space activities—civil, military, scientific, or commercial—needs affordable, reliable, frequent, and flexible access to space. To Reach the High Frontier details the histories of the various space access vehicles developed in the United States since the birth of the space age in 1957. Each case study has been written by a specialist knowledgeable about the vehicle described and places each system in the larger context of the history of spaceflight. The technical challenge of reaching space with chemical rockets, the high costs associated with space launch, the long lead times necessary for scheduling flights, and the poor reliability of the rockets themselves show launch vehicles to be the space program's most difficult challenge.