To a Distant Day: The Rocket PioneersU of Nebraska Press, 1 Oca 2008 - 236 sayfa ?Insightful, instructive, and definitely worth the read.??Greg Andres, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada ?As someone who has been teaching a course on space exploration for many years and has visited most of NASA's space centers, I have found plenty of new and valuable material in To a Distant Day. . . . I recommend the book to all who wish to know more about the conditions, people, and discoveries between 1890 and 1960 that led to the space age.??Pangratios Papacosta, Physics Today Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese gunpowder experiments during the Middle Ages. Rockets as both weapons and entertainment are examined in this engaging history of how human beings acquired the ability to catapult themselves into space. |
İçindekiler
Space Dreams and War Drums | 1 |
Tsiolkovsky and the Birth of Soviet Astronautics | 18 |
Robert Goddards Solitary Trail | 36 |
Hermann Oberth and Early German Rocketry | 53 |
Von Braun Dornberger and World War II | 70 |
Rockets Balloons and the Right Stuff | 89 |
Korolev and the First ICBM | 109 |
The MilitaryIndustrial Complex | 126 |
Sputniks and Muttniks | 144 |
The Birth of NASA | 163 |
Man in Space Soonest | 182 |
July 161969 | 207 |
211 | |
219 | |