The History of Rocket Technology
Author | : William M. Bland |
Publisher | : Detroit : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William M. Bland |
Publisher | : Detroit : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : David Baker |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Michel van Pelt |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2012-05-30 |
Genre | : 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 | : George Paul Sutton |
Publisher | : AIAA |
Total Pages | : 936 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : 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 | : Andrew J. Butrica |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2003-10-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780801873386 |
While the glories and tragedies of the space shuttle make headlines and move the nation, the story of the shuttle forms an inseparabe part of a lesser-known but no less important drama—the search for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit rocket. Here an award-winning student of space science, Andrew J. Butrica, examines the long and tangled history of this ambitious concept, from it first glimmerings in the 1920s, when technicians dismissed it as unfeasible, to its highly expensive heyday in the midst of the Cold War, when conservative-backed government programs struggled to produce an operational flight vehicle. Butrica finds a blending of far-sighted engineering and heavy-handed politics. To the first and oldest idea—that of the reusable rocket-powered single-stage-to-orbit vehicle—planners who belonged to what President Eisenhower referred to as the military-industrial complex.added experimental ("X"), "aircraft-like" capabilties and, eventually, a "faster, cheaper, smaller" managerial approach. Single Stage to Orbit traces the interplay of technology, corporate interest, and politics, a combination that well served the conservative space agenda and ultimately triumphed—not in the realization of inexpensive, reliable space transport—but in a vision of space militarization and commercialization that would appear settled United States policy in the early twenty-first century. -- D. M. Ashford
Author | : Robert H. Goddard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494067243 |
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Author | : Eugene Morlock Emme |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Author | : A. Bowdoin Van Riper |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2007-11-26 |
Genre | : 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 | : Ted Spitzmiller |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 693 |
Release | : 2017-02-21 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0813059704 |
Military Writers Society of America Awards, Gold Medal for History Highlighting men and women across the globe who have dedicated themselves to pushing the limits of space exploration, this book surveys the programs, technological advancements, medical equipment, and automated systems that have made space travel possible. Beginning with the invention of balloons that lifted early explorers into the stratosphere, Ted Spitzmiller describes how humans first came to employ lifting gasses such as hydrogen and helium. He traces the influence of science fiction writers on the development of rocket science, looks at the role of rocket societies in the early twentieth century, and discusses the use of rockets in World War II warfare. Spitzmiller considers the engineering and space medicine advances that finally enabled humans to fly beyond the earth's atmosphere during the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. He recreates the excitement felt around the world as Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn completed their first orbital flights. He recounts triumphs and tragedies, such as Neil Armstrong's "one small step" and the Challenger and Columbia disasters. The story continues with the development of the International Space Station, NASA's interest in asteroids and Mars, and the emergence of China as a major player in the space arena. Spitzmiller shows the impact of space flight on human history and speculates on the future of exploration beyond our current understandings of physics and the known boundaries of time and space.
Author | : Mike Gruntman |
Publisher | : AIAA |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : 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.