CONTENTS
Volume 15, AAS History Series
History of Rocketry and Astronautics
Proceedings of the Twentieth and Twenty-First History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), Innsbruck, Austria, 1986; and Brighton, United Kingdom, 1987
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FOREWORD, R. Cargill Hall, Series Editor vii
PREFACE, Lloyd H. Cornett, Jr., Volume Editor ix
PART I — EARLY SOLID PROPELLANT ROCKETRY 1
Chapter 1: The ‘Boun Bang Fai’ Rockets of Thailand and Laos: Possible Key to Determining the Spread of Rocketry in the Orient, Frank H. Winter 3
Chapter 2: Congreve Rocketry Revisited, P. J. Turvey 25
PART II — ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS: CONCEPTS, THEORIES AND ANALYSES 31
Chapter 3: The Legacy of Schiaparelli and Lowell, Frederick I. Ordway, III 33
Chapter 4: Analysis of K. E. Tsiolkovsky’s Ideas on Space Industrial Development and Exploitation, T. N. Zhelnina 65
Chapter 5: Scientific and Technological Prerequisites for the First Manned Spacecraft, Boris V. Rauschenbach 73
Chapter 6: Project Horizon: An Early Study of a Lunar Outpost, Frederick I. Ordway, III, Mitchell R. Sharpe, and Ronald C. Wakeford 79
Chapter 7: Using Mathematical Models in Researching the History of Rocket Space Technology, V. P. Mikhailov 107
Chapter 8: Speculative Spacecraft, 1610-1957, Ron Miller 115
Chapter 9: The Scientific Foundations of Space Flight in Newton’s “Principia” (1687), Mieczylaw Subotowicz 137
Chapter 10: The Development of Space Flight Theory by Soviet Scientists, B. V. Rauschenbach 141
Chapter 11: Development of the Theory of Correction Maneuvers for the First Transfer Trajectories to Mars and Venus, R. K. Kazakova and A. K. Platonov 147
Chapter 12: K. E. Tsiolkovsky and the Development of Twentieth Century Anthropocosmism, Tsvetan Dimitrov Kardashev 161
PART III — LIQUID- AND SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKETS, 1880-1945 163
Chapter 13: Camera Rockets and Space Photography Concepts Before World War II - Part II, Frank H. Winter 165
Chapter 14: The Construction of a Replica of Robert H. Goddard’s First Successful Liquid-Propellant Rocket, I. M. Ball 181
Chapter 15: An Analysis of Yu. A. Pobedonostsev’s Scientific and Technical Activity, B. T. Erokhin, G. Yu. Mazing, and N. E. Prudnikov 195
PART IV — ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS SINCE 1945 199
Chapter 16: The Propellant Chemists’ Contribution to Modern Rocket Flight: A Memoir, Karl Klager 201
Chapter 17: The Beginning of the U.S. Space Program: A Memoir, William H. Pickering 211
Chapter 18: The Apollo Generation: A Profile of NASA’s First Engineers, Sylvia Doughty Fries 223
Chapter 19: Wernher von Braun and Collier Magazine’s Man in Space Series, Randy Liebermann 235
Chapter 20: Apollo Scientific Exploration of the Moon, Wm. D. Compton 243
Chapter 21: Lunar Surface Photography: A Study of Apollo 11, H. J. P. Arnold 259
Chapter 22: International Geophysical Year to International Space Year, Herbert Friedman 285
Chapter 23: Project Manhigh: A Balloon-Borne Predecessor for Project Mercury, Gregory P. Kennedy 293
Chapter 24: From HF Radio to Unified S-Band: An Historical Review of the Development of Communications in the Space Age, David E. B. Wilkins 305
Chapter 25: Brennschluss Over the Desert: V-2 Operations at White Sands Missile Range, 1946-1952, John R. London, III 335
Chapter 26: Thirty Years of Astronautics with McDonnell and Douglas, Charles D. Walker 369
Chapter 27: Peenemünde and Los Alamos: Two Studies, Donald E. Tarter 377
Chapter 28: The French SE 1900 and SE 1910 Rocket Sleds, Phillippe Jung 395
PART V — PIONEERS OF ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS 415
Chapter 29: Georgy Nikolaevich Babakin’s Contribution to the Development of Automatic Space Stations, O. G. Ivanovsky and M. B. Fainshtein 417
Chapter 30: Yuriy Alexeyevich Gagarin: His Uniqueness, Typicalness and Wealth of Personality, Tsvetan Dimitrov Kardashev 423
Chapter 31: Personal Recollections of Theodore von Kármán, Boris Kit 427
INDEX 433
Numerical Index 435
Author Index 437