Single Stage to Orbit
Subtitle: Politics, Space Technology, and the Quest for Reusable Rocketry (New Series in NASA History)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801873386
Subjects: Astronautics; History of engineering & technology; United States; Research; History; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; USA; Reusable space vehicles; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Astrophysics & Space Science; History / United States / General; Aerospace planes; Hypersonic aerodynamics; Political aspects
First sentence: "In a village of La Mancha, whose named I have no desire to remember, there lived not long ago one of those gentlemen who keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and greyhound for coursing."