History of rocketry and astronautics proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics : Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2004 Å. Ingemar Skoog, volume editor ; Rick W. Sturdevant, series editor
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Physical description:
xiii, 544 pages illustrations, portraits 25 cm
Type:
Congresses
Congrès
Kongress
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Place:
Vancouver (British Columbia)
Date:
2011
2004
Notes:
A Supplement to Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
"The material in this volume was presented originally at the 38th International Academy of Astronautics Symposium on History of Astronautics at the 55th International Astronautical Congress in Vancouver, Canada, on 4-8 October 2004"--Page vii
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Contents:
Part I: Pioneers of the space age -- The silent revolution : how H.R. Goddard helped start the space age / Frank H. Winter -- Post-war German rocketry influence in France : an analysis (part II) / Philippe Jung -- O.M. Makarov, the outstanding organizer of manufacture of Soviet rockets in Dnipropetrovsk : for 35 years 100 ballistic missiles per year / O.O. Larionova, V.P. Platonov, V.F. Prisniakov -- Slovenian scientists as popularizers of space exploration and research / Miloš Krmelj -- Heroes in a vacuum : the Apollo astronaut as cultural icon / Roger D. Launis -- Part II: Organizations and heritage -- Canada's space program, 1958-1989 : a progrom without an agency / Christopher Gainor -- Leading Russian liquid rocket engines' company : to 75th anniversary of NPO energomash / B. Katorgin, V. Chvanov, V. Rakhmanin [and others] -- The link between aerospace industry and NASA during the Apollo years / Nicolas Turcat -- Japan-U.S. space relations during the 1970s : after the exchange of notes / Hirotaka Watanabe -- An introduction to national space organization of Taiwan / Jeng-Shing Chern -- The avro arrow and its remarkable contribution to America's space program / Christopher Gainor -- The "spadeadam" blue streak project : a community space heritage initiative / Kerrie Dougherty, Fiona Deal -- Organizational history of the space collections at the University of Alabama in Huntsville / Anne M. Coleman, Charles A. Lundquist, David L. Christensen -- The earlist Romanian publication on astronautics in 1929 / Radu D. Rugescu -- Part III: Technologies and projects -- Aerodynamic aspects of ancient Chinese rocket : Fire Dragon / Lai-Chen Chien -- Reusable man-rated rocket engines : the French experience, 1944-1996 / Christophe Rothmund -- History of the inertial navigation : part one, 1900-1960 / Jacques Villain -- Experimental postal rockets by the astronautic and rocket society of Celje from 1963 to 1966 / Aleksander Kerstein, Amalija Trauner -- The French meteorological rockets in the early 1960s / Hervé Moulin, Jean-Jacques Serra -- Hypersonic research at Woomera : Falstaff -- the unclassified story / Kerrie Dougherty, Jean-Jacques Serra -- Mu launch vehicles and space in Japan / Yasunori Matogawa -- The Soviet/Russian spacesuit history : part III -- the European connection / Å. Ingemar Skoog, Isaak P. Abramov -- Part IV: The development of the space station -- Space stations : base camps to the stars / Roger D. Launis -- From cures to curations : the life of research on orbit / Roger H. Weiss -- The changing purpose of the space station / James A. Vedda -- Goldin O'Keefe, and the international space station : leadership and large-scale technological programs / W. Henry Lambright -- Canada's role on space station / Karl Doetsch
