U.S. Space Launch-Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle
For nearly fifty years, a wide range of missiles and rockets has propelled U.S. satellites and spacecraft into the sky. J. D. Hunley's two-volume work traces the evolution of this technology, from Robert Goddard's research in the 1920s through the development of the Titan missiles and launch vehicles in the 1960s to the refinement of the space shuttle in the 1980s.

With the first book devoted primarily to military hardware and the second to launch vehicle hardware, Hunley offers a sweeping overview of these impressive engineering innovations as well as insights into the dynamic personalities responsible for them. Together, the two volumes offer a unique, invaluable history of rocketry that should appeal to a wide range of scholars and space buffs.
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U.S. Space Launch-Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle
For nearly fifty years, a wide range of missiles and rockets has propelled U.S. satellites and spacecraft into the sky. J. D. Hunley's two-volume work traces the evolution of this technology, from Robert Goddard's research in the 1920s through the development of the Titan missiles and launch vehicles in the 1960s to the refinement of the space shuttle in the 1980s.

With the first book devoted primarily to military hardware and the second to launch vehicle hardware, Hunley offers a sweeping overview of these impressive engineering innovations as well as insights into the dynamic personalities responsible for them. Together, the two volumes offer a unique, invaluable history of rocketry that should appeal to a wide range of scholars and space buffs.
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U.S. Space Launch-Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle

U.S. Space Launch-Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle

by J. D. Hunley
U.S. Space Launch-Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle

U.S. Space Launch-Vehicle Technology: Viking to Space Shuttle

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For nearly fifty years, a wide range of missiles and rockets has propelled U.S. satellites and spacecraft into the sky. J. D. Hunley's two-volume work traces the evolution of this technology, from Robert Goddard's research in the 1920s through the development of the Titan missiles and launch vehicles in the 1960s to the refinement of the space shuttle in the 1980s.

With the first book devoted primarily to military hardware and the second to launch vehicle hardware, Hunley offers a sweeping overview of these impressive engineering innovations as well as insights into the dynamic personalities responsible for them. Together, the two volumes offer a unique, invaluable history of rocketry that should appeal to a wide range of scholars and space buffs.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813031781
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication date: 05/11/2008
Edition description: First
Pages: 480
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

J. D. Hunley was chief historian of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center before his retirement in 2001. Besides working as a historian for the United States Air Force and NASA during his lengthy career, Hunley has also taught at Allegheny College and served as a Ramsey Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
Viking and Vanguard, 1945-1959     10
The Thor-Delta Family of Space-Launch Vehicles, 1958-1990     40
The Atlas Space-Launch Vehicle and Its Upper Stages, 1958-1990     83
The Scout Family of Space-Launch Vehicles, 1956-1990     127
Saturn I through Saturn V, 1958-1975     158
Titan Space-Launch Vehicles, 1961-1990     220
The Space Shuttle, 1972-1991     265
The Art of Rocket Engineering     314
Notable Technological Achievements     325
Notes     337
Glossary of Terms, Acronyms, and Abbreviations     393
Sources     403
Index     429

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