Research Catalog

Title

History of rocketry and astronautics : proceedings of the third through the sixth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics / R. Cargill Hall, editor.

Author

History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics.

Publication

San Diego : Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt (P.O. Box 28130, San Diego, Ca. 92128), 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hall, R. Cargill.
• International Academy of Astronautics.
• American Astronautical Society.

Description

2 volumes : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

• AAS history series, 0730-3564 ; 7
• IAA history symposia ; 2

Uniform Title

• AAS history series ; 7.
• IAA history symposia ; 2.
• NASA conference publication ; 2014.

Alternative Title

Essays on the history of rocketry and astronautics

Subject

• Rocketry > History > Congresses
• Astronautics > History > Congresses
• Astronautics
• Rocketry

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "Mar del Plata, Argentina, October 10, 1969, Constance, German Federal Republic, October 11-12, 1970, Brussels, Belgium, September 23, 1971, Vienna, Austria, October 13, 1972"--Vol. 1, p. iii.
• Previously published as: Essays on the history of rocketry and astronautics. Washington, D.C. : NASA, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1977. (NASA conference publication ; 2014).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

pt. I. Romanian rocketry in the 16th century ; The Swedish Rocket Corps, 1833-1845 ; Baron Vincenz von Augustin and his Raketenbatterien : a history of Austrian rocketry in the 19th century ; Hungarian rocketry in the 19th century ; Nonmilitary applications of the rocket between the 17th and 20th centuries ; The use of congreve-type war rockets by the Spanish in the 19th century : a chronology ; A survey of rocketry and astronautics in Spain ; History of the development of rocket technology and astronautics in Poland ; First works of K.E. Tsiolkovsky and I.V. Meshersky on rocket dynamics ; On the works of S.S. Nezhdanovsky in the field of flight based on reactive principles, 1880-1895 ; Guido von Pirquet : Austrian pioneer of astronautics ; Evolution of spacecraft attitude control concepts before 1952 ; The ideas of K.E. Tsaiolkovsky on orbital space stations ; F. Gomes Arias' rocket vehicle project ; On fundamentally new sources of energy for rockets in the early works of the pioneers of astronautics ; The silver bird story : a memoir ; Basic stages in the development of the theory of Ram-jet engines (RJE) -- pt. II. Comparative analysis of the designs and implementation of vehicles based on reactive propulsion proposed during the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries ; The alleged contributions of Pedro E. Paulet to liquid-propellant rocketry ; Main lines of scientific and technical research at the Jet Propulsion Research Institute (RNII), 1933-1942 -- On the history of the development of solid-propellant rockets in the Soviet Union ; On the history or the stratospheric rocket Sonde in the USSR, 1933-1946 ; Experimental research and design planning in the field of liquid-propellant rocket engines conducted between 1934-1944 by the followers of F.A. Tsander ; Analysis of liquid-propellant rocket engines designed by F.A. Tsander ; Early postal rockets in Austria : a memoir ; Rocket flight to the Moon -- from idea to reality : a memoir ; Origins of astronautics in Switzerland ; the development of rocket technology and space research in Poland ; The U.S. Army Air Corps jet propulsion research project, GALCIT Project no. 1, 1939-1946 : a memoir ; Development of the German A-4 guidance and control system, 1939-1945 : a memoir ; The evolution of aerospace guidance technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1935-1951 : a memoir ; Earth satellites, a first look by the United States Navy ; Liquid-hydrogen rocket engine development at Aerojet, 1944-1950 ; A stone's throw into the universe : a memoir ; America's first long-range-missile and space exp.oration program : the OEDCIT Project of the jet propulsion laboratory, 1943-1946 ; Countdown to space exploration : a memoir of the jet propulsion laboratory, 1944-1958 ; The aeronomy story : a memoir ; The Viking rocket : a memoir ; From Wallops Island to Project Mercury, 1945-1958 : a memoir.

ISBN

• 0877032602
• 9780877032601
• 0877032610
• 9780877032618

OCLC

• ocm15022992
• 15022992
• SCSB-1190848

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library