CONTENTS
Volume 17, AAS History Series,
History of Rocketry and Astronautics

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), Bangalore, India, 1988; and Málaga, Spain, 1989

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Foreword vii

Preface ix

PART I: Early Solid Propellant Rocketry

Chapter 1.  Indo-Aryan Traditions and the History of Astronautics, Roberto Pinotti 3

Chapter 2.  William Congreve and the City of Toulouse, Jean-Paul Escalettes and Philippe Jung 13

PART II: Rocketry and Astronautics: Concepts, Theories and Analyses

Chapter 3.  The Collaboration of Wernher von Braun and Fred Freeman, Randy Liebermann 35

Chapter 4.  Preserving Chapters in Aerospace History, Shirley Thomas 41

Chapter 5.  A Legacy for the Future:  Preserving Space-Related Historic Sites, John R. London, III 63

PART III: Rocketry and Astronautics After 1945

Chapter 6.  The Evolution of Liquid Rocket Propulsion in France in the Last Fifty Years, J. Villain 87

Chapter 7.  The SE 4100 Family: An Early French Experience in Rocketry, Philippe Jung 103

Chapter 8.  The SE 4400/4401 Family: A Hypersonic Ramjet in the 1950s, Philippe Jung 131

Chapter 9.  British Rocket Experiments in the Late 1950s/Early 1960s, John Becklake 153

Chapter 10. The British Black Knight Rocket, John Becklake 165

Chapter 11. Ariel I: The World’s First Cooperative Satellite Venture, A. P. Willmore 183

Chapter 12. The First Control System for Space Vehicles, Boris V. Rauschenbach 197

Chapter 13. Major Development Trends of Orbital Space Stations, K. P. Feoktistov 203

Chapter 14. The American Rocket Society, 1953-1963:  A Memoir, James J. Harford 209

Chapter 15. A Brief History of the German Rocket Society, Boris Kit 217

Chapter 16. “Black Betsy”: The 6000C-4 Rocket Engine, 1945-1989, Part 1, Frank H. Winter 221

Chapter 17. The X-20 Space Plane:  Past Innovation, Future Vision, Terry L. Sunday and John R. London, III 253

Chapter 18. The Atlas and Centaur “Steel Balloon Tanks”:  A Legacy of Karel Bossart, Richard E. Martin 285

Chapter 19. Mercury Primates, Gregory P. Kennedy 319

Chapter 20. Mercury-Redstone:  The First American Man-Rated Space Launch Vehicle, Mitchell R. Sharpe and Bettye B. Burkhalter 341

Chapter 21. The Aeromedical Field Laboratory of Space Medicine, Gregory P. Kennedy 389

Chapter 22. Apollo Scientific Exploration of the Moon, Wm. David Compton 405

Chapter 23. American Manned Planetary Mission Studies, 1962-1968, Franklin P. Dixon 421

PART IV: Pioneers of Rocketry and Astronautics

Chapter 24. The Role of Mikhail Klavdiyevich Tikhonravov in Creating Staged Rockets, 1947-1953, I. M. Yatsunsky 451

Chapter 25. The Activities and Role of Vladimir Petrovich Vetchinkin in the Field of Rocketry, B. L. Belov 457

Index 461