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| Author | : J. D. Hunley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
"Preludes to U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology is devoted primarily to military hardware and traces the evolution of missile technology from the 1920s through the 1970s, when the Minuteman III became operational. Hunley discusses individual innovations, technology transfer, management systems, and the organizations that were involved in the research and development of a wide range of rockets and missiles, including the German V-2, Redstone, Atlas, Thor, Jupiter, Titan I and II, and Polaris. He also humanizes the subject through numerous anecdotes and sketches of such fascinating individuals as Robert H. Goddard, Werner von Braun, Bernard Schriever, and "Red" Raborn, among others."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : J. D. Hunley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
For nearly fifty years, a wide range of missiles and rockets has propelled U.S. satellites and spacecraft into the sky. J. D. Hunley's two-volume work traces the evolution of this technology, from Robert Goddard's research in the 1920s through the development of the Titan missiles and launch vehicles in the 1960s to the refinement of the space shuttle in the 1980s. With the first book devoted primarily to military hardware and the second to launch vehicle hardware, Hunley offers a sweeping overview of these impressive engineering innovations as well as insights into the dynamic personalities responsible for them. Together, the two volumes offer a unique, invaluable history of rocketry that should appeal to a wide range of scholars and space buffs.
| Author | : J. D. Hunley |
| Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2013-03-15 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1603449876 |
In this definitive study, J. D. Hunley traces the program’s development from Goddard’s early rockets (and the German V-2 missile) through the Titan IVA and the Space Shuttle, with a focus on space-launch vehicles. Since these rockets often evolved from early missiles, he pays considerable attention to missile technology, not as an end in itself, but as a contributor to launch-vehicle technology. Focusing especially on the engineering culture of the program, Hunley communicates this very human side of technological development by means of anecdotes, character sketches, and case studies of problems faced by rocket engineers. He shows how such a highly adaptive approach enabled the evolution of a hugely complicated technology that was impressive—but decidedly not rocket science. Unique in its single-volume coverage of the evolution of launch-vehicle technology from 1926 to 1991, this meticulously researched work will inform scholars and engineers interested in the history of technology and innovation, as well as those specializing in the history of space flight.
| Author | : Roger D. Launius |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 2014-07-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813148073 |
Access -- no single word better describes the primary concern of the exploration and development of space. Every participant in space activities -- civil, military, scientific, or commercial -- needs affordable, reliable, frequent, and flexible access to space. To Reach the High Frontier details the histories of the various space access vehicles developed in the United States since the birth of the space age in 1957. Each case study has been written by a specialist knowledgeable about the vehicle described and places each system in the larger context of the history of spaceflight. The technical challenge of reaching space with chemical rockets, the high costs associated with space launch, the long lead times necessary for scheduling flights, and the poor reliability of the rockets themselves show launch vehicles to be the space program's most difficult challenge.
| Author | : Roger E. Bilstein |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 537 |
| Release | : 1999-08 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0788181866 |
| Author | : National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 2018-10-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781729343333 |
As directed in Public Law 100-657, Commercial Space Launch Act Amendments of 1988, and consistent with National Space Policy, NASA has prepared a report on a potential program of research on technologies to reduce the initial and recurring costs, increase reliability, and improve performance of expendable launch vehicles for the launch of commercial and government spacecraft into orbit. The report was developed in consultation with industry and in recognition of relevant ongoing and planned NASA and DoD technology programs which will provide much of the required launch systems technology for U.S. Government needs. Additional efforts which could be undertaken to strengthen the technology base are identified. To this end, focus is on needs for launch vehicle technology development and, in selected areas, includes verification to permit private-sector new technology application at reduced risk. If such a program were to be implemented, it would entail both government and private-sector effort and resources. The additional efforts identified would augment the existing launch vehicle technology programs. The additional efforts identified have not been funded, based upon agency assessments of relative priority vis-a-vis the existing programs. Throughout the consultation and review process, the industry representatives stressed the overriding importance of continuing the DoD/NASA Advanced Launch Development activity and other government technology programs as a primary source of essential launch vehicle technology. Unspecified Center...
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| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 23 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1437986692 |
| Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1965 |
| Genre | : Launch vehicles (Astronautics) |
| ISBN | : |
Reviews development of the national space program and considers what type of launch vehicle systems will be needed in the future.
| Author | : Committee on Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology and Test Program |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 99 |
| Release | : 1996-01-22 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309588960 |
The key to opening the use of space to private enterprise and to broader public uses lies in reducing the cost of the transportation to space. More routine, affordable access to space will entail aircraft-like quick turnaround and reliable operations. Currently, the space Shuttle is the only reusable launch vehicle, and even parts of it are expendable while other parts require frequent and extensive refurbishment. NASA's highest priority new activity, the Reusable Launch Vehicle program, is directed toward developing technologies to enable a new generation of space launchers, perhaps but not necessarily with single stage to orbit capability. This book assesses whether the technology development, test and analysis programs in propulsion and materials-related technologies are properly constituted to provide the information required to support a December 1996 decision to build the X-33, a technology demonstrator vehicle; and suggest, as appropriate, necessary changes in these programs to ensure that they will support vehicle feasibility goals.
| Author | : Roger E. Bilstein |
| Publisher | : History Office |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
"A classic study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle that took Americans to the moon in the 1960s"--Back cover.
