To a distant day : the rocket pioneers / Chris Gainor ; foreword by Alfred Worden.
To a distant day : the rocket pioneers / Chris Gainor ; foreword by Alfred Worden.
To a distant day : the rocket pioneers / Chris Gainor ; foreword by Alfred Worden.
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
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N621.43056/1
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English
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xxiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Space Dreams and War Drums -- 2. Tsiolkovsky and the Birth of Soviet Astronautics -- 3. Robert Goddard's Solitary Trail -- 4. Hermann Oberth and Early German Rocketry -- 5. Von Braun, Dornberger, and World War II -- 6. Rockets, Balloons, and the Right Stuff -- 7. Korolev and the First ICBM -- 8....
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
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Nebraska
Date Published
c2008.
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"Chris Gainor's irresistible narrative introduces us to pioneers such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth, who pointed the way to the cosmos and created the earliest wave of international enthusiasm for space exploration. It shows us German engineer Wernher von Braun creating the v-2, the first large rocket, which opened t...
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To a distant day : the rocket pioneers / Chris Gainor ; foreword by Alfred Worden.
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Outward odyssey--a people's history of spaceflight.
Outward odyssey.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-218) and index.
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c2008.
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N621.43056/1
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74VM8qEkRbp3
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0803222092 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803222090 (cloth : alk. paper)
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621.43560922
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991000062729702626
