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History of rocketry and astronautics : proceedings of the Seventeenth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics, Budapest, Hungary, 1983
- Title
- History of rocketry and astronautics : proceedings of the Seventeenth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics, Budapest, Hungary, 1983 / volume editor, John L. Sloop ; series editor, R. Cargill Hall.
- Author
- History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics (17th : 1983 : Budapest, Hungary)
- Publication
- San Diego, Calif. : Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt, ©1991.
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- Description
- x, 242 pages; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- AAS history series ; v. 12
- IAA history symposia ; v. 7
- Uniform Title
- AAS history series ; v. 12.
- IAA history symposia ; v. 7.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- pt, I. Early solid-propellant rocketry. A study of early Korean rockets (1377-1600) -- pt. II. Rocketry and astronautics : concepts, theories, and analyses. Leonhard Euler's importance for aerospace sciences : on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death -- pt. III. The development of liquid- and solid-propellant rockets, 1880-1945. The founding of the Jet Propulsion Research Institute and the main fields of its activity ; The Bristish Interplanetary Society : the first fifty years (1933-1983) ; Liquid propellant rocket development by the U.S. Navy during World War II : a memoir ; Some vignettes from an early rocketeer's diary : a memoir ; Contribution of the Romanian inventor Alexandru Churcu to the development of theoretical and practical reactive motion in the 19th century -- pt. IV. Rocketry and astronautics after 1945. Communication satellites : the experimental years ; Project Rover : the United States nuclear rocket program ; A comparative study of the evolution of manned and unmanned spaceflight operations ; Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corporation : an operational history, 1958-1972 (Part II) /Frederick I. Ordway ; Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corporation : a project history, 1958-1972 (Part III) ; Pages from the history of the Hungarian Astronautical Society ; United States Space Camp at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center -- pt. V. Pioneers of rocketry and astronautics. A life devoted to astronautics : Dr. Olgierd Wołczek (1922-1982.
- ISBN
- 0877033323
- 9780877033325
- 0877033331
- 9780877033332
- OCLC
- ocm24281839
- 24281839
- SCSB-1995049
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library