RaketenspurenPeenemunde 1936-1996

Remembering the Space AgeProceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference

Proceedings of October 2007 conference, sponsored by the NASA History Division and the National Air and Space Museum, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch in October 1957 and the dawn of...

Schiffer Military History Vol. 26: V2. Dawn of the Rocket Age

The first ballistic missle in its use during WWII.

Secret Projects: Military Space Technology

This book outlines the development of space technology for military purposes from its very beginnings during World War 2 right up to the latest, most sophisticated systems. The author starts with references to...

Soviet Aircraft and Rockets

How are modern aircraft, helicopters, multi-stage rockets constructed? What keeps them in the air? What kind of engines are used in flight vehicles, how are they built? What instruments are installed in...

Secrets of our Spaceship Moon

Rescue: аварийный выход

Мир, конструктивное международное сотрудничество на Земле и в космосе — вот единственная альтернатива аварийной...

Rocket Planes

Russian Space Probes: Scientific Discoveries and Future Missions

Ein Pionier des Raketenantriebs berichtet

It’s ONLY Rocket Science: An Introduction in Plain English

«Well, it’s not rocket science, is it?» How many times have you heard people use that expression when they mean something pretty simple? There are other areas of science and technology that are...

NASA at 50: Interviews with NASA’s Senior Leadership

The 50th anniversary of NASA on 1 October 2008 found an agency in the midst of deep transition. In the closing year of the presidency of George W. Bush, only a month before the presidential election and in the...

Mach 3+: NASA/USAF YF-12 Flight Research, 1969-1979 / Самолет NASA / ВВС США YF-12.

During the 1950s. American aircraft designers emphasized configurations that flew increasingly high and fast, a trend that continued for nearly two decades. Then, during rhe 1970s, efficiency, noise reduction,...

Earth

From the Foreword by Michael Carlowicz: From its origins, NASA has studied our planet in novel ways, using ingenious tools to study physical processes at work—from beneath the crust to the edge of the...

Economic Development of Low Earth Orbit book cover

This collection of papers identifies a number of important policy questions that will be of rising importance as NASA transitions human spaceflight in LEO to the private sector, as well as a number of economic...

Janes’s Space Recognition Guide

Jane’s Space Recognition Guide is the essential, most comprehensive guide to spacecraft and space exploration. It includes: Civilian and military spacecraft Shuttles and satellites Space agencies,...

El Futuro de la Exploración del Espacio

Entwicklung des Raketenbaus und der Raumfahrt in der UdSSR

How to survive in spaceТом 2

As part of our celebrations for the 50th anniversary of ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, we are pleased to make available the delightful ESOC history, How to Survive in Space, as a...

How to survive in spaceТом 1

As part of our celebrations for the 50th anniversary of ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, we are pleased to make available the delightful ESOC history, How to Survive in Space, as a...

Historical Analogs for the Stimulation of Space Commerce

With the rise of a range of private-sector entrepreneurial firms interested in pursuing space commerce, the process whereby their efforts might be incubated, fostered, and expanded comes to the fore as an...

Historical Studies in the Societal Impact of Spaceflight

This volume presents a series of in-depth studies on the mutual interaction of space exploration and society—part of a larger need to understand the relationships between science, technology, and society....

Global Reach: A View of NASA’s International Cooperation

When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958, its founding legislation—the National Aeronautics and Space Act—directed the new Agency to pursue cooperation “with...

Flying the Frontiers of Space

A history of American experimental aircraft and space vehicles from 1947 to the present.

F. A. Tsander and Modern Cosmonautics

Flight research : problems encountered and what they should teach US

The document by Milt Thompson that is reproduced here was an untitled rough draft found in Thompson’s papers in the Dryden Historical Reference Collection. Internal evidence suggests that it was written...

Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics

Hypersonics is the study of flight at speeds where aerodynamic heating dominates the physics of the problem. Typically this is Mach 5 and higher. Hypersonics is an engineering science with close links to...

Exploring Space

Throughout history, people have tried to understand Earth’s place in the universe and what else, if anything, is ‘out there’. This common human curiosity has led to great discoveries, from...

Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics

Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties

To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books — to be published annually — will explore this half...

Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space

The technologies for the reentry and recovery from space might change over time, but the challenge remains one of the most important and vexing in the rigorous efforts to bring spacecraft and their crews and...

Cave of the Winds

The huge Langley Full-Scale Tunnel building dominated the skyline of Langley Air Force Base for 81 years (1930–2011). The Full-Scale Tunnel was constructed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...

Book of Flight: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

The dream of flight is one of the oldest in human history. We read about it in ancient Greek mythology and visualize it through Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches of flying machines. The Book of Flight traces...

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Preliminary Science Report

NASA TM X-58173/International cooperation was the keynote of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. In the 3 y ears since the project was initiated in the U.S. — U .S .S .R. Agreement Concerning Cooperation in...

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America’s First Rocket Company: Reaction Motors, Inc.

America’s First Rocket Company is the story of Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI), the U.S.’s first liquid-propellant rocket company. Founded in December, 1941 following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, with...

After Sputnik50 Years of the Space Age

A-1: The First French Satellite

«26 ноября 1965 года с момента полета первой французской РН «Диамант» Франция стала — после СССР и США —...

All About History: History of NASA 2nd Edition

American X-Vehicles An_ Inventory X-1 to X-50

Animals in Space_From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle

Apollo 1 and the Space Shuttle Challenger:The History of NASA’s Two Most Notorious Disasters

Apollo in PerspectiveSpaceflight Then and Now

This book takes a retrospective look at the Apollo space program and the technology that was used to land a man on the Moon. Jonathan Allday’s aims are to explain the basic physics and technology of...

Building Hitler’s Missiles

Boeing. The complete story / Боинг. История компании.

Today, Boeing is the premier aircraft builder in the US and one of the biggest aerospace constructors in the world. To the public Boeing is inextricably linked with some of the greatest names in aircraft...