To a distant day : the rocket pioneers / Chris Gainor ; foreword by Alfred Worden.
Gainor, Chris.
2008
TL781 .G25 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
To a distant day : the rocket pioneers / Chris Gainor ; foreword by Alfred Worden.
Author
Gainor, Chris.
ISBN
9780803222090 (alk. paper)
0803222092 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
TL781 .G25 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
621.43/560922
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-218) and index.
Series
Outward odyssey
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Space dreams and war drums
Tsiolkovsky and the birth of Soviet astronautics
Robert Goddard's solitary trail
Hermann Oberth and early German rocketry
Von Braun, Dornberger, and World War II
Rockets, balloons, and the right stuff
Korolev and the first ICBM
The military-industrial complex
Sputniks and Muttniks
The birth of NASA
Man in space soonest
Epilogue: July 16, 1969.

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