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The missile and space race

Title: The missile and space race / Alan J. Levine.
Author: Levine, Alan J.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1994.

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Description

viii, 247 pages; 25 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-234) and index.

Contents

1. Prelude and Background to the Development of Rocketry and Space Travel -- 2. The Immediate Postwar Era: Abortive Progress and Hiatus, 1945-1950 -- 3. The Race for the ICBM -- 4. Space Exploration and Satellites in the 1950s -- 5. Sputnik and Its Consequences, 1957-1958 -- 6. The "Missile Gap" and After -- 7. The Space Race, 1958-1960 -- 8. Humans in Orbit and Interplanetary Probes, 1961-1966 -- 9. The Other Road -- Wings toward Space -- 10. The Road Not Taken -- Nuclear Propulsion -- 11. To the Moon.

ISBN

0275944514
9780275944513

LCCN

93023673

OCLC

ocm29319619
29319619
SCSB-2026037

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library