Book Description
Surveys the invention, development, and different uses of rockets, from their beginnings in ancient Greece and China to modern efforts to explore outer space.
Author : Ron Miller
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531114308
Surveys the invention, development, and different uses of rockets, from their beginnings in ancient Greece and China to modern efforts to explore outer space.
Author : David Baker
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : George Paul Sutton
Publisher : AIAA
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0801887925
Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance attacks. At the same time, rockets made possible one of the great triumphs of the modern age—the exploration of space. Beginning with the origins of rocketry in medieval and early modern Asia, Rockets and Missiles traces the history of the technology that led to both the great fear of global warfare and the great excitement of the Space Age. This volume focuses on rocketry in late-twentieth-century Western Europe, Russia, and the United States, as well as the spread of rocket technology to East Asia and the Middle East. It covers the full history of rocket technology—including how rockets improved in performance, reliability, and versatility and how they affected everyday life.
Author : Robert H. Goddard
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781494067243
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Author : Michael G. Smith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803286546
Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight. Between 1903 and 1953, Russia matured in radical and dramatic ways as the tensions and expectations of the Russian revolution drew it both westward and spaceward. European and American industrial capacities became the models to imitate and to surpass. The burden was always on Soviet Russia to catch up—enough to achieve a number of remarkable “firsts” in these years, from the first national rocket society to the first comprehensive surveys of spaceflight. Russia rose to the challenges of its Western rivals time and again, transcending the arenas of science and technology and adapting rocket science to popular culture, science fiction, political ideology, and military programs. While that race seemed well on its way to achieving the goal of space travel and exploring life on other planets, during the second half of the twentieth century these scientific advances turned back on humankind with the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile and the coming of the Cold War.
Author : Michel van Pelt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461432006
This book describes the technology, history, and future of rocket planes. Michel van Pelt journies into this exciting world, examining the exotic concepts and actual flying vehicles that have been devised over the last hundred years. He recounts the history of rocket airplanes, from the early pioneers who attached simple rockets onto their wooden glider airplanes to the modern world of high-tech research vehicles. The author visits museums where rare examples of early rocket planes are kept and modern laboratories where future spaceplanes are being developed. He explains the technology in an easily understandable way, describing the various types of rocket airplanes and looking at the possibilities for the future. Michel van Pelt considers future spaceplanes, presenting various modern concepts and developments. He describes the development from cutting edge research via demonstrator vehicles to operational use. He also evaluates the replacement of the Space Shuttle with a seemingly old-fashioned capsule system, the parallel developments in suborbital spaceplanes such as SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, piloted versus automatic flight, and related developments in airliners and military aircraft.
Author : William M. Bland
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Author : Fraser MacDonald
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1610398696
The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick. Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters wrong. With the help of his friend Jack Parsons, a grandiose and occult-obsessed explosives enthusiast, Malina embarks on a journey that takes him from junk yards and desert lots to the heights of the military-industrial complex. Malina designs the first American rocket to reach space and establishes the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But trouble soon finds him: the FBI suspects Malina of being a communist. And when some classified documents go missing, will his comrades prove as dependable as his engineering? Drawing on an astonishing array of untapped sources, including FBI documents and private archives, Escape From Earth tells the inspiring true story of Malina's achievements--and the political fear that's kept them hidden. At its heart, this is an Icarus tale: a real life fable about the miracle of human ingenuity and the frailty of dreams.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1966
Category :
ISBN :