Title: History of rocketry and astronautics :
Authors: History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics; Ordway, Frederick Ira,; Ordway, Frederick I.,; International Academy of Astronautics; American Astronautical Society.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt, Inc.,
Physical description: xi, 318 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: T
Contents: pt. I. Early solid-propellant rocketry. Analysis of rocket construction described in manuscripts and printed books during the 16th and 17th centuries -- pt. II. Rocketry and astronautics : concepts, theories, and analyses after 1880. Analysis of early 19th century Swedish solid propellants ; Beginnings of airborne aeromedical weightlessness research ; Early concepts of aerospace systems ; Computer-oriented dynamic modeling of spacecraft : historical evolution of Eulerian multibody formalisms since 1750 -- pt. III. Development of liquid- and solid-propellant rockets, 1880-1945. Organization and results of the work of the first scientific centers for rocket technology in the USSR ; Genesis of liquid hydrogen propulsion through 1945 ; History of development of first space rocket engines in the USSR -- pt. IV. Rocketry and astronautics after 1945. Beginnings of rocket and missile activities in Switzerland ; Operation Backfire : England launches the V2 ; Early upper atmospheric research with rockets ; Early history of the Skylark rocket ; First rocket experiments for research on solar shortwave radiation ; Structure of neutral upper atmosphere air samples and falling spheres ; Upper atmosphere research and the first rocket experiments in the USSR ; Early scientific history of the rocket grenade experiment ; Early French upper atmosphere research using rockets ; Development of the first automatic stations for lunar flight in the USSR -- pt. V. Pioneers of rocketry and astronautics. Kepler's "The dream, or lunar astronomy" as a predecessor of space research ; Albert Fonó : a pioneer of jet propulsion ; S.P. Korolev and Soviet rocket technology ; Harry Bull, American rocket pioneer.
Subject headings (LCSH): Astronautics--History--Congresses.; Rocketry--History--Congresses.