Milestones of flight
Subtitle: from hot-air balloons to SpaceShipOne
By: by Tim Grove
Contributors: National Air and Space Museum
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9781419720031
Subjects: Aeronautics; Juvenile literature; History
Description: Milestones of Flight takes readers soaring through the high points of American aviation: from the Wright brothers and their competitors to the military pilots who first circumnavigated the globe, from the initial space rocket to the moon walk, from the earliest manmade satellite to today s spy drones.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Ballooning; title: Wright Flyer; title: Curtiss JN-4, the "Jenny"; title: Douglas World Cruiser; title: Goddard rocket; title: Spirit of St. Louis; title: Full scale wind tunnel; title: Douglas DC-3; title: UAVs; title: Bell XP-59A Aeracomet; title: Whittle and Jumo 004B engines; title: Bell X-1, Glamorous Glennis; title: Boeing 367-80, "Dash 80"; title: Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1; title: North American X-15; title: Discoverer/Corona; title: Telstar; title: Mercury Friendship 7; title: Mariner 2; title: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird; title: Gemini IV; title: Imagination and the Star Trek Starship Enterprise; title: Lunar Module; title: Touchable moon rock; title: Pioneer 10/11; title: Viking Lander; title: Space Shuttle Discovery; title: Hubble Space Telescope; title: SpaceShipOne; title: Epilogue.