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

Author: Mike Gruntman
Publisher: Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ©2004.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mike Gruntman
ISBN: 156347705X 9781563477058
OCLC Number: 54852580
Description: xiv, 505 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Mike Gruntman.
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