Milestones of flight : from hot-air balloons to SpaceShipOne /
"This book is being published in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The museum will celebrate its 40th anniversary in July 2016. There will be a new Smithsonian exhibition, to be called "Milestones of Flight." This book is NOT a catalog of the exhibition;...
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New York :
Abrams Books for Young Readers,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Ballooning
- Wright Flyer
- Curtiss JN-4, the "Jenny"
- Douglas World Cruiser
- Goddard rocket
- Spirit of St. Louis
- Full scale wind tunnel
- Douglas DC-3
- UAVs
- Bell XP-59A Aeracomet Whittle and Jumo 004B engines
- Bell X-1, Glamorous Glennis
- Boeing 367-80, "Dash 80"
- Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1
- North American X-15
- Discoverer/Corona
- Telstar
- Mercury Friendship 7
- Mariner 2
- Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
- Gemini IV
- Imagination and the Star Trek Starship Enterprise
- Lunar Module and touchable moon rock
- Pioneer 10/11
- Viking Lander
- Space Shuttle Discovery
- Hubble Space Telescope
- SpaceShipOne
- Epilogue.