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Rockets and missiles : the life story of a technology
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Rockets and missiles : the life story of a technology

Author: A Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher: Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Series: Greenwood technographies
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: A Bowdoin Van Riper
ISBN: 0313327955 9780313327957
OCLC Number: 55518389
Description: xvi, 176 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction -- The age of black powder, 1000-1900 -- The birth of modern rocketry, 1900-1942 -- Rockets in World War II, 1939-1945 -- Rockets for research, 1945-1960 -- Ballistic missiles and the Cold War, 1945-1990 -- Rockets to the moon, 1960-1975 -- Tactical missiles in the Cold war, 1950-1990 -- Spaceflight becomes routine, 1970-present -- Missiles after the Cold War, 1990-present -- Conclusion : what next?
Series Title: Greenwood technographies
Responsibility: A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
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