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" To reach the high frontier : "
edited by Roger D. Launius and Dennis R. Jenkins.
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BL
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636093
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To reach the high frontier : : a history of U.S. launch vehicles /\ edited by Roger D. Launius and Dennis R. Jenkins.
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Lexington, Ky. :: University Press of Kentucky,, c2002.
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519 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0813122457 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780813122458 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Episodes in the evolution of launch vehicle technology / Roger D. Launius -- Rocketry and the origins of space flight / Ray A. Williamson and Roger D. Launius -- Stage-and-a-half: the atlas launch vehicle / Dennis R. Jenkins -- Delta: the ultimate Thor / Kevin S. Forsyth -- Titan: some heavy lifting required / Roger D. Launius -- History and development of U. S. small launch vehicles / Matt Bille, Pat Johnson, Robyn Kane,...[et al.] -- Minuteman and the development of solid rocket launch technology / J. D. Hunley -- The biggest of them all: reconsidering the Saturn V / Ray A. Williamson -- Taming liquid hydrogen: the Centaur saga / Virginia P. Dawson -- Broken in midstride: Space Shuttle as a launch vehicle / Dennis R. Jenkins -- Eclipsed by tragedy: the fated mating of the Shuttle and Centaur / Mark D. Bowles -- The quest for usability / Andrew J. Butrica -- Epilogue: "To the very limit of our ability" : reflections on forty years of military-civil partnership in space launch / David N. Spires and Rick W. Sturdevant.
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Launch vehicles (Astronautics)-- United States-- History.
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Rocketry-- United States-- History.
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TL785.8.L3T67 2002
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Launius, Roger D.
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Jenkins, Dennis R.
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