NASA sounding rockets, 1958-1968; a historical summary
By: [by] William R. Corliss.
Series: NASA SP-4401. NASA historical report series; NASA SP ;; 4401.
Publisher: Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Rockets, Sounding -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 77-78.