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To Reach the High Frontier : A History of U. S. Launch Vehicles.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2002Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (528 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813148076
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: To Reach the High FrontierDDC classification:
  • 629.47/5
LOC classification:
  • TL785.8.L3.T6 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Episodes in the Evolution of Launch Vehicle Technology -- 1. Rocketry and the Origins of Space Flight -- 2. Stage-and-a-Half: The Atlas Launch Vehicle -- 3. Delta: The Ultimate Thor -- 4. Titan: Some Heavy Lifting Required -- 5. History and Development of U.S. Small Launch Vehicles -- 6. Minuteman and the Development of Solid Rocket Launch Technology -- 7. The Biggest of Them All: Reconsidering the Saturn V -- 8. Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Saga -- 9. Broken in Midstride: Space Shuttle as a Launch Vehicle -- 10. Eclipsed by Tragedy: The Fated Mating of the Shuttle and Centaur -- 11. The Quest for Reusability -- 12. Epilogue: "To the Very Limit of Our Ability":Reflections on Forty Years of Military-Civil Partnership in Space Launch -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Episodes in the Evolution of Launch Vehicle Technology -- 1. Rocketry and the Origins of Space Flight -- 2. Stage-and-a-Half: The Atlas Launch Vehicle -- 3. Delta: The Ultimate Thor -- 4. Titan: Some Heavy Lifting Required -- 5. History and Development of U.S. Small Launch Vehicles -- 6. Minuteman and the Development of Solid Rocket Launch Technology -- 7. The Biggest of Them All: Reconsidering the Saturn V -- 8. Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Saga -- 9. Broken in Midstride: Space Shuttle as a Launch Vehicle -- 10. Eclipsed by Tragedy: The Fated Mating of the Shuttle and Centaur -- 11. The Quest for Reusability -- 12. Epilogue: "To the Very Limit of Our Ability":Reflections on Forty Years of Military-Civil Partnership in Space Launch -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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