CONTENTS
Volume 14, AAS History Series
History of Rocketry and Astronautics
Proceedings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), Lausanne, Switzerland, 1984; and Stockholm, Sweden, 1985
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FOREWORD, R. Cargill Hall, Series Editor vi
PREFACE, Tom D. Crouch, Alex M. Spencer, Volume Editors ix
PART I — EARLY SOLID PROPELLANT ROCKETRY 1
Chapter 1: Early Rocket Weapons in China, Fang-Toh Sun 3
Chapter 2: Nineteenth Century Rocketry in France, Frederick I. Ordway, III and Hervé Moulin 17
Chapter 3: Some Features of Lifesaving Rocket Development in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, V. P. Mikhailov 43
Chapter 4: The Rocket Development of Isaac Lubbock and Geoffrey Collin, J. Griffiths 51
PART II — ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS: CONCEPTS, THEORIES AND ANALYSES 65
Chapter 5: The Contributions of K. E. Tsiolkovsky and Other Native Scientists to the Technology of Rocket Launching, V. P. Mikhailov 67
Chapter 6: The Smaller British Societies Devoted to Astronautics and Interplanetary Flight, Eric Burgess 73
Chapter 7: Function, Form, and Technology: The Evolution of Space Station in NASA, Sylvia Doughty Fries 79
Chapter 8: Reaching for the Planet Mars: Humankind’s Evolving Perspective, Stewart W. Johnson 95
Chapter 9: Sotir Cherkezov: The Inventor of a Device for Rescuing Spacemen, A. Simeonov and I. Belberov 105
PART III — LIQUID- AND SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKETS, 1880-1945 107
Chapter 10: Some Important Aspects on the Three Centuries Old History of Romanian Aerospace Techniques, Florin Zaganescu 109
Chapter 11: British Rocketry during World War II, John Becklake 117
Chapter 12: A Brief History of the First U.S. JATO Flight Tests of August 1941: A Memoir, Homer A. Boushey 127
Chapter 13: Comparative Analysis of Developoments in the Active and Reactive Methods of Projection, G. Yu. Mazing 139
PART IV — ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS SINCE 1945 149
Chapter 14: Engines and Propulsion Units for Space Vehicles Constructed by Alexey M. Isaev, A. D. Tavzarashvily 151
Chapter 15: A Survey of World Meteorological and Environmental Satellites, 1960-1985, Abraham Schnapf 159
Chapter 16: A History of Heat Shields for Manned Space Flight, Leon Ronquillo 185
Chapter 17: Thirty Years of the Polish Astronautical Society, W. Geisler 189
PART V — PIONEERS OF ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS 195
Chapter 18: Anatole Arkadievich Blagonravov and Soviet Cosmonautics, K. V. Frolov and A. A. Parkhomenko 197
INDEX 205
Numerical Index 207
Author Index 209