The Rocket: The History and Development of Rocket & Missile Technology

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History of technology of ballistic missiles, satellites, space launches, Apollo project, manned rockets, and much more.

Author(s): David Baker
Publisher: New Cavendish Books
Year: 1978

Language: English
Pages: 276
City: London UK
Tags: Rocket Missile ICMB NASA Space

Acknowledgements
Introduction
01 Fire-Sticks and Gunpowder
02 Vision and Reality
03 New Politics and a New Technology
04 Vergeltungswaffe Zwei - V2
05 Parallel Developments
06 Ideas and Applications
07 Deadly Payloads
08 Russian Challenge
09 The Race for Space
10 Strategic Rocketry
11 Window to the Twenty-First Century
Compendium of Launch Vehicles and Ballistic Missiles
Compendium of Rocket Powered Aircraft
Basic solid and liquid propellant technology
Glossary of terms
World Rocket and Missile Inventory
Illustration credits
Index & Bibliography