Rockets and launch vehicles
Subtitle: exploring space
By: David Baker.
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781590367711; 9781590367728
Subjects: Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What is a rocket?; title: Rocket parts; title: Solid and liquid fuelled rockets; title: Rocket history; title: Rocket people; title: Rockets for research; title: Missile race; title: How do rockets launch satellites?; title: Rockets from Russia; title: First US satellites in space; title: Building it big; title: Lunar landing program; title: Moonport USA; title: Delivery trucks to orbit; title: Ariane; title: Missions to the planets; title: China to the stars.