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Blazing the trail : the early history of spacecraft and rocketry /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gruntman, Mike, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, [2004]
Subjects:
Rocketry > History.
Rockets (Aeronautics) > History.
Space vehicles > History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Humble beginnings
  • Rocket proliferation, the first wave
  • Under rocket fire in India
  • The Congreve rocket
  • Rockets come to America
  • First American rockets
  • Rocket proliferation, the second wave
  • Public imagination on fire
  • Great pioneers
  • The first modern rocket
  • JATO and beyond
  • Building the foundation
  • Road to Sputnik
  • Gateways to heaven
  • The breakthrough
  • Opening the skies
  • Joining the club
  • The first thousand years.