TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petty,Chris
AU  - Jenkins,Dennis R.
TI  - Beyond Blue Skies: The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age
T2  - Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight Series
SN  - 9781496223555
AV  - TL567.R47 .P488 2020 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations and Definitions -- Part 1 -- 1. A New Breed of Aircraft -- 2. Like a Speeding Bullet -- 3. A New Pretender -- 4. The Race to Mach 2 -- 5. Facing the Heat -- 6. The End of the Beginning -- Part 2 -- 7. The Hypersonic Challenge -- 8. Higher and Faster -- 9. The Follow-On -- 10. Failure to Launch -- Part 3 -- 11. Look Ma, No Wings! -- 12. The Heavyweights -- 13. Racehorses and Unrealized Plans -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Index
N2  - Beyond Blue Skies examines the thirty-year period after World War II during which aviation experienced an unprecedented era of progress that led the United States to the boundaries of outer space
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ER  -