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To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers Book

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  • To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers
  • Written by author Chris Gainor
  • Published by University of Nebraska Press, 7/1/2013
  • Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese gunpowder experiments during the Middle Ages. Rockets as both weapons and entertainment are examined in this engaging hist
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List of Illustrations     viii
Foreword     xi
Preface and Acknowledgments     xv
Acronyms and Abbreviations     xxi
Space Dreams and War Drums     1
Tsiolkovsky and the Birth of Soviet Astronautics     18
Robert Goddard's Solitary Trail     36
Hermann Oberth and Early German Rocketry     53
Von Braun, Dornberger, and World War II     70
Rockets, Balloons, and the Right Stuff     89
Korolev and the First ICBM     109
The Military-Industrial Complex     126
Sputniks and Muttniks     144
The Birth of NASA     163
Man in Space Soonest     182
Epilogue: July 16, 1969     207
Sources     211
Index     219


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