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To the end of the solar system : the story of the nuclear rocket

Title
To the end of the solar system : the story of the nuclear rocket / James A. Dewar.
Author
Dewar, James A.
Publication
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2004.

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Description
xxi, 438 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Death, the destroyer of worlds -- The military road to Mars -- Cast long shadows, breed long memories -- Under the determined pounding of Clinton Anderson -- To the end of the solar system -- Translating policy into action -- The struggle over preeminence -- Death of RIFT: demise of preeminence -- On to Mars! -- Will NERVA II fly post-Apollo? -- Turmoil in congress: old bulls and young Turks -- Triumphs in the desert -- The space task group -- The shuttle doesn't need NERVA -- Post Rover/NERVA nuclear rocket development -- Assessment of scientific and economic benefits -- Life, the expander of worlds.
ISBN
0813122678 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003007973
OCLC
  • ocm52251456
  • 54476171
  • SCSB-1343478
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library