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