The V2 and the German, Russian and American Rocket Program
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Publisher: German Canadian Museum of
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Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1894643054
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The Mars Project
Author: Wernher Von Braun
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780252062278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born scientist Wernher von Braun detailed what he believed were the problems and possibilities inherent in a projected expedition to Mars. Today von Braun is recognized as the person most responsible for laying the groundwork for public acceptance of America's space program. When President Bush directed NASA in 1989 to prepare plans for an orbiting space station, lunar research bases, and human exploration of Mars, he was largely echoing what von Braun proposed in The Mars Project.
The Rocket and the Reich
Author: Michael J. Neufeld
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1588344673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →WINNER OF THE DEXTER PRIZE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first ballistic missile, the V-2, fell on London, Paris, and Antwerp after covering nearly two hundred miles in five minutes. It was a stunning achievement, one that heralded a new age of ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles. Michael J. Neufeld gives the first comprehensive and accurate account of the story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. At a time when rockets were minor battlefield weapons, Germany ushered in a new form of warfare that would bequeath a long legacy of terror to the Cold War, as well as the means to go into space. Both the US and USSR's rocket programs had their origins in the Nazi state.
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Germany's V-2 Rocket
Author: Gregory P. Kennedy
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780764324529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Germanys V-2 looks at one of the major technological advances of the Second World War, the V-2 ballistic missile. Although dwarfed by todays giant rockets, the V-2 represented a quantum leap beyond anything previously built. During the last six months of the war in Europe, Germany launched thousands of these missiles against the Allies. This book traces the origins and development of the V-2, from groups of individual experimenters in the 1930s to its use as a weapon system. Particular emphasis is paid to such topics as the structure and components of the missile, its ground support equipment, and field procedures. After the war, the V-2 formed the foundation for the space programs of the Soviet Union and United States. Information is included on previously ignored V-2 launches in the United States.
Von Braun
Author: Michael Neufeld
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-11-11
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0307389375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von Braun. Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whose intelligence and charisma were coupled with an enormous and, some would say, blinding ambition. Based on new sources, Neufeld's biography delivers a meticulously researched and authoritative portrait of the creator of the V-2 rocket and his times, detailing how he was a man caught between morality and progress, between his dreams of the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.
NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968
Author: William R. Corliss
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sounding rockets provided the first means to carry instruments to the outermost reaches of the Earth's atmosphere. They were, indeeed, our first space vehicles. As Mr. Corliss relates in this history, in this day of satellites and deep space probes, sounding rockets remain as important to space science as ever, furnishing our most powerful means for obtaining vertical profiles of atmospheric properties. NASA continues to depend on sounding rockets for research in astronomy, meteorology, ionospheric physics, exploratory astronomy, and other disciplines.
Taming Liquid Hydrogen
Author: Virginia Parker Dawson
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13:
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Author: James A. Walker
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.
Rocket Development
Author: Robert H. Goddard
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781494067243
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