CONTENTS
Volume 10, AAS History Series,
History of Rocketry and Astronautics
Proceedings of the Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 1978; Munich, Germany, 1979; and Tokyo, Japan, 1980
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FOREWORD, R. Cargill Hall, Series Editor v
PREFACE, Å. Ingemar Skoog, Volume Editor vii
PART I — EARLY SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKETRY 1
Chapter 1: The Genesis of the Rocket in China and its Spread to the East and West, Frank H. Winter 3
Chapter 2: Rockets and Rocket Propulsion Devices in Ancient China, Fang-Toh Sun 25
Chapter 3: The Swedish Fire Arrow, The Oldest Rocket Specimen Extant, Å. Ingemar Skoog and Frank H. Winter 41
PART II — ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS: CONCEPTS, THEORIES, AND ANALYSES AFTER 1880 59
Chapter 4: Johannes Kepler and His Laws of Planetary Motion, Werner Schulz 61
Chapter 5: From Celestial Mechanics to Space Flight Mechanics - Historical Notes on the Development of Astrodynamics, Werner Schulz 79
Chapter 6: Origin of the Basic Equations of Rocket Dynamics, Tatomir P. Andjelic 97
Chapter 7: The Contribution of Soviet Scientists and Engineers to the Technology of Rocket Launching, V. P. Mikhaylov 105
PART III — THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIQUID- AND SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKETS, 1880-1945 111
Chapter 8: Theoretical and Experimental Investigations in the Field of Rocketry in the U.S.S.R. (Up to the Early Forties) (Abstract only), I. A. Merkulov 113
Chapter 9: Development of Methods of Cooling Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines (ZhRDs), 1903-1970, G. M. Salakhutdinov 115
Chapter 10: Original Research on a Rocket Engine with Multiple Combustion Chambers, Developed in Romania Between 1940-1944, Florin Zågånescu 123
Chapter 11: Reaction Motors Incorporated, The First Large Scale American Rocket Company: A Memoir, John Shesta 137
PART IV — ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS AFTER 1945 151
Chapter 12: Hungarian Lunar Radar Experiments 1944-1946, István György Nagy and Pál Vajda 153
Chapter 13: Scientific Investigations Carried Out by the First Soviet Satellites and their Results, S. N. Vernov and B. A. Tverskoy 159
Chapter 14: Early Experiments with Liquid Rockets at High Chamber Pressures, J. R. Osborn, C. F. Warner and S. N. B. Murthy 165
Chapter 15: Technological Steps to Liquid Hydrogen Propulsion, John L. Sloop 177
Chapter 16: Liquid Rocket Propulsion System Advancements 1946-1970, J. M. Murphy 191
Chapter 17: Rocket Research and Tests at the NACA/NASA Wallops Island Flight Test Range 1945-1959: A Memoir, Joseph Adams Shortal 203
Chapter 18: The Antecedents of the Space Shuttle, Richard P. Hallion 227
Chapter 19: The Pacific Rocket Society and the Founding of the International Astronautical Federation, 1944-1960: A Memoir, Edmund V. Sawyer 245
Chapter 20: The Founding of the International Astronautical Federation: A Memoir, Alexandre Ananoff 261
PART V — PIONEERS OF ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS 269
Chapter 21: A Man of the First Hour - Johannes Winkler, Rolf Engel 271
Chapter 22: V. V. Rasumov’s Efforts in the Field of Rocketry (Abstract only), L. M. Alexandrova 285
Chapter 23: Walter Hohmann’s Contributions Toward Space Flight: An Appreciation on the Occasion of the Centenary of his Birthday, Werner Schulz 287
Chapter 24: Maurice J. Zucrow and Rocket Research at Purdue University, C. M. Ehresman and J. R. Osborn 303
INDEX 313
Numerical Index 315
Author Index 317