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Author : Donald C. Elder
Publisher : Univelt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Rocketry and Astronautics written by Donald C. Elder and published by Univelt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Paul Sutton
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781563476495
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)
Download or read book History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines written by George Paul Sutton and published by AIAA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mike Gruntman
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781563477058
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Blazing the Trail written by Mike Gruntman and published by AIAA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Fraser MacDonald
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610398696
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Escape from Earth written by Fraser MacDonald and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert H. Goddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494067243
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Rocket Development written by Robert H. Goddard and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Author : Robert S. Kraemer
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781563477546
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Rocketdyne written by Robert S. Kraemer and published by AIAA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the early history of rocketry up through the work of Dr. Robert Goddard in the early 1940s, the author referenced the history books of T.A. Heppenheimer and Frank Winter. The rest of the book is a chronicle of both the author's own memories and experiences as a member of the Rocketdyne team, as well as those of other keys members of this elite group.
Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 1580136885
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Rockets written by Ron Miller and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most futuristic of humankind’s inventions is also one of the oldest. Author Ron Miller tells the story of rockets, from their humble beginnings as toys one thousand years ago to their initiation as fearsome weapons of war. Most recently, rockets have enabled human beings to escape the bonds of Earth, travel into space, and explore other worlds. This is a story of great geniuses, personal sacrifices, and grand adventure.
Author : Mike Gruntman
Publisher : Mike Gruntman
ISBN 13 : 9781419670855
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)
Download or read book From Astronautics to Cosmonautics written by Mike Gruntman and published by Mike Gruntman. This book was released on 2007 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two pioneers of space exploration, Robert Esnault-Pelterie and Ary Sternfeld, introduced the words 'astronautics' and 'cosmonautics, ' respectively, into the scientific language. The origin of the term 'astronautics' is well documented. In contrast, the history of the word 'cosmonautics' remains poorly known. Ary Sternfeld is also largely forgotten. The fiftieth anniversary of the breakthrough to space, celebrated in 2007, makes it especially appropriate to remember those visionaries who paved the way to cosmos. The book tells the stories of 'astronautics' and 'cosmonautics' and describes a most unusual life journey of Ary Sternfeld
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ISBN 13 : 9781563477034
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew J. Butrica
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801873386
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Single Stage to Orbit written by Andrew J. Butrica and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-10-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hermann Oberth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110367564
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Rocket into Planetary Space written by Hermann Oberth and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all being interested in astronautics, this translation of Hermann Oberth’s classic work is a truly historic event. Readers will be impressed with this extraordinary pioneer and his incredible achievement. In a relatively short work of 1923, Hermann Oberth laid down the mathematical laws governing rocketry and spaceflight, and he offered practical design considerations based on those laws.
Author : John Drury Clark
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813599199
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Ignition! written by John Drury Clark and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.
Author : Otfrid G. Liepack
Publisher : Univelt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Rocketry and Astronautics written by Otfrid G. Liepack and published by Univelt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christophe Rothmund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Rocketry and Astronautics written by Christophe Rothmund and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume, the American Astronautical Society's history series presents 23 papers delivered at the 35th History of the International Academy of Astronautics, held in Toulouse (France) in early October 2001. This took place as part of the 52nd International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Congress meeting at this time and place. Following recent tradition, the papers do not appear in symposium order, but have been arranged, for the reader's convenience, by topic...These symposia continue to emphasize the shift in focus away from events before World War II and toward worldwide developments occurring after 1945; they also examine topics drawn from a wider range of subjects. Personal narratives are less numerous, and of particular interest to the reader will be the papers devoted to examining hitherto unknown aspects of IAF history. The editor would like to dedicate this volume to the victims and heroes of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that made 2001 a year of infamy, and also to the victims of Toulouse's chemical plant explosion on 21 September 2001. They all were at our sides during the Congress and have been ever since." --Excerpted from Preface, p. ix, by Christophe Rothmund, Volume Editor, Snecma, Space Engines Division.
Author : DP Mishra
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351708414
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Fundamentals of Rocket Propulsion written by DP Mishra and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book follows a unified approach to present the basic principles of rocket propulsion in concise and lucid form. This textbook comprises of ten chapters ranging from brief introduction and elements of rocket propulsion, aerothermodynamics to solid, liquid and hybrid propellant rocket engines with chapter on electrical propulsion. Worked out examples are also provided at the end of chapter for understanding uncertainty analysis. This book is designed and developed as an introductory text on the fundamental aspects of rocket propulsion for both undergraduate and graduate students. It is also aimed towards practicing engineers in the field of space engineering. This comprehensive guide also provides adequate problems for audience to understand intricate aspects of rocket propulsion enabling them to design and develop rocket engines for peaceful purposes.
Author : Mark Mayfield
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781510766761
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Launch Magazine's History of American Rocketry written by Mark Mayfield and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have for anyone fascinated by space travel, rocketry, NASA, SpaceX, and more! A new era in spaceflight, led by SpaceX and other commercial rocket companies, is generating the kind of worldwide interest in space travel that we haven’t seen since the space race of the 1960s. Kids are dreaming of becoming astronauts again. New feats, such as SpaceX’s remarkable ability to land booster rockets, under powered descent, back on land or sea has galvanized a new generation of rocket enthusiasts. Yet none of this would be possible without the advances of rocketry over the past century. The Chinese were the first to develop black-powder fireworks and rockets centuries ago, but modern rocketry truly began with Robert Goddard’s launch of a liquid-fueled rocket on a Massachusetts farm in 1926. That metal contraption—which flew just 41 feet high before arching over and streaking 184 feet into a cabbage patch—came just 43 years before Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. Armstrong’s Apollo 11 mission was made possible by a giant 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket that used some of the same propulsion principles as Goddard’s first tiny, crude rockets. The beginning of the “Space Age” is considered to be Russia’s launch of the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. But it was the pioneering human spaceflights of the 1960s that captured the imagination of the world and turned astronauts into heroes. Weapons of war—the Redstone, Atlas, and Titan II missiles—were converted into civilian launch boosters and led to the success of the Mercury and Gemini programs. All the while, Saturn rockets were being developed that would ultimately lead to the moon missions. Kids were so excited about these pioneering space flights that an entirely new hobby—model rocketry—was created to serve their interests. Small scale models of NASA’s big rockets were ordered by the millions, generating a $100 million hobby at a time when there were no video games, no internet, and no cable, just three broadcast television networks. Now, the next generation of rockets from SpaceX and other commercial companies, along with NASA’s new launch vehicles and Orion spacecraft, will lead the United States and the world into a new era of rocketry—beginning with crewed flights to the moon as early as 2024, and ultimately to Mars within the first half of this century.
