CONTENTS
Volume 12, AAS History Series
History of Rocketry and Astronautics

Proceedings of the Seventeenth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), Budapest, Hungary, 1983

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FOREWORD, R. Cargill Hall, Series Editor v

PREFACE, John L. Sloop, Volume Editor vii

PART I — EARLY SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKETRY 1

Chapter 1:  A Study of Early Korean Rockets (1377-1600), Chae, Yeon Seok 3

PART II — ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS:  CONCEPTS, THEORIES, AND ANALYSES 17

Chapter 2:  Leonhard Euler’s Importance for Aerospace Sciences - on the Occasion of the Bicentenary of his Death, Werner Schulz 19

PART III — THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIQUID- AND SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKETS, 1880-1945 29

Chapter 3:  The Founding of the Jet Propulsion Research Institute and the Main Fields of its Activity, B. V. Rauschenbach 31

Chapter 4:  The British Interplanetary Society:  The First Fifty Years (1933-1983), G. V. E. Thompson and L. R. Shepherd 37

Chapter 5:  Liquid Propellant Rocket Development by the U.S. Navy during World War II:  A Memoir, Robert C. Traux 57

Chapter 6:  Some Vignettes from an Early Rocketeer’s Diary: A Memoir, Bernard Smith as told to Frederick I. Ordway, III 69

Chapter 7:  Contribution of the Romanian Inventor Alexandru Churcu to the Development of Theoretical and Practical Reactive Motion in the 19th Century, Florin Zaganescu, Rodica Burlacu and I. M. Stefan 85

PART IV — ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS AFTER 1945 93

Chapter 8:  Communication Satellites:  The Experimental Years, Burton I. Edelson 95

Chapter 9:  Project Rover: The United States Nuclear Rocket Program, James A. Dewar 109

Chapter 10:  A Comparative Study of the Evolution of Manned and Unmanned Spaceflight Operations, Kristan Lattu 125

Chapter 11:  Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corporation:  An Operational History, 1958-1972 (Part II), Frederick I. Ordway, III 137

Chapter 12:  Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corporation:  A Project History, 1958-1972 (Part III), Frank H. Winter 175

Chapter 13:  Pages from the History of the Hungarian Astronautical Society, István György Nagy 203

Chapter 14:  United States Space Camp at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center, Edward O. Buckbee and Lee Sentell 209

PART V — PIONEERS OF ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS 215

Chapter 15:  A Life Devoted to Astronautics:  Dr. Olgierd Wolczek (1922-1982), M. Subotowicz 217

APPENDIX 233

Biographical Sketches of the Authors 235

INDEX 239

Numerical Index 241

Author Index 242