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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Launch vehicles (Astronautics) |
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Reviews development of the national space program and considers what type of launch vehicle systems will be needed in the future.
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 | : Steven J. Isakowitz |
Publisher | : AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics) |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Launch vehicles (Astronautics) |
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This bestselling reference guide contains the most reliable and comprehensive material on launch programs in Brazil, China, Europe, India, Israel, and the United States. Packed with illustrations and figures, this edition has been updated and expanded, and offers a quick and easy data retrieval source for policy makers, planners, engineers, launch buyers, and students.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Launch vehicles (Astronautics) |
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Author | : J. D. Hunley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
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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 | : John E. Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Launch vehicles (Astronautics) |
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Author | : Donald L. Edberg |
Publisher | : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Launch vehicles (Astronautics) |
ISBN | : 9781624105937 |
With growing interest in space activity and numerous new launchers in development, this book is a timely, comprehensive survey of important concepts and applications. It enhances understanding and provides exposure to practical aspects of design, manufacturing, testing, and engineering associated with these topics.
Author | : J. D. Hunley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Launch vehicles (Astronautics) |
ISBN | : 9780813038551 |
For nearly 50 years, a wide range of missiles and rockets has propelled U.S. satellites and spacecraft into the sky. This 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.
Author | : Forrest McCartney |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0833039598 |
In 1994, the National Space Transportation Policy laid the framework for appropriate government agencies to maintain strong launch systems and infrastructure while modernizing space transportation capabilities and encouraging cost reductions. More than a decade later, through combined Department of Defense (DoD) and industrial investment, the two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) families of U.S. rockets (Atlas V and Delta IV) have proved to be maturing, reliable state-of-the-art technologies. In 2004, Congress directed the Secretary of Defense to establish a panel of experts with extensive space launch and operations background to address the future National Security Space launch requirements and the means of meeting those requirements. DoD selected RAND to facilitate and support this panel in its deliberations between May 2005 and May 2006. This report analyzes the National Security Space (NSS) Launch Requirements Panel's major findings and recommendations. In short, the Panel concludes that, because basic rocketry principles, use of chemically derived thrust, and multiple expendable stages seem certain to remain the design of choice for operational space launch vehicles, the EELV can satisfy all known and projected NSS requirements through 2020.
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.