The missile and space race /
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| Author / Creator: | Levine, Alan J. |
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| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1994. |
| Description: | viii, 247 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1676869 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Prelude and Background to the Development of Rocketry and Space Travel
- The Immediate Postwar Era: Abortive Progress and Hiatus 1945-1950
- The Race for the ICBM Space
- Exploration and Satellites in the 1950s
- Sputnik and its Consequences, 1957-1958
- The "Missile Gap" and After The Space Race, 1958-1960
- Humans in Orbit and Interplanetary Probes, 1961-1966
- The Other Road--Wings toward Space
- The Road Not Taken--Nuclear Propulsion To the Moon
- Bibliography
- Index
