By Roger D. Launius
Access―no unmarried notice greater describes the first challenge of the exploration and improvement of area. each player in house activities―civil, army, medical, or commercial―needs cheap, trustworthy, widespread, and versatile entry to area. To succeed in the excessive Frontier information the histories of many of the area entry autos constructed within the usa because the beginning of the gap age in 1957. every one case examine has been written by way of a consultant acquainted with the automobile defined and areas every one method within the higher context of the heritage of spaceflight. The technical problem of achieving area with chemical rockets, the excessive expenditures linked to area release, the lengthy lead instances beneficial for scheduling flights, and the bad reliability of the rockets themselves express release automobiles to be the gap program's so much tough problem.
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Eugene M. , The History of Rocket Technology: Essays on Research, Development, and Utility (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1964 ). 60. Isakowitz, Hopkins, and Hopkins, International Reference Guide, is the most significant of these works. - 1 Rocketry and the Origins of Space Flight Ray A Williamson and Roger D. Launius Introduction Curiosity about the universe and other worlds has been one of the few constants in the history of humankind. Prior to the twentieth century, however, there was little opportunity to explore the universe except in fiction and through astronomical observations.
See James J. Harford, Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997). 9. Wernher von Braun, "The Redstone, Jupiter, and Juno," in Eugene M. , The History ofRocket Technology: Essays on Research, Development, and Utility (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1964), pp. 107-22. 10. Loyd S. Swenson, James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. : NASA, 1966), pp. 422-36 . 11. S. , 2d sess. : Government Printing Office, 1960); Robert M. : NASA, 1966), pp.
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