CONTENTS
Volume 20, AAS History Series,
History of Rocketry and Astronautics

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth History Symposium of
the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA),
Montreal, Canada, 1991

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Foreword vii

Preface ix

PART I: Early Solid-Propellant Rocketry

Chapter 1.  French Rocketry 1739-1872, Philippe Jung 3

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

Chapter 2.  Gravity Propulsion Research at UCLA and JPL, 1962-1964, Richard L. Dowling, William J. Kosmann, Michael A. Minovitch, and Rex W. Ridenoure 27

PART III: The Development of Liquid- and Solid-Propellant Rockets, 1880-1945

Chapter 3.  The Romanian Inventor Paul Popovatz’s Contribution to Jet Propulsion Theory and Practice, Stefan Ispas, Florin Zaganescu, and Ionel Lazar 105

PART IV: Rocketry and Astronautics After 1945

Chapter 4.  The Navaho Cruise Missile—A Burst of Technology, Dale D. Myers 121

Chapter 5.  Development of the Jupiter Propulsion System, Julius H. Braun 133

Chapter 6.  Project Farside, S. Fred Singer 145

Chapter 7.  From the Development History of the Vostok Spacecraft, B. V. Rauschenbach 151

Chapter 8.  Segmented Rocket Demonstration: Historical Development prior to their Use as Space Boosters, Karl Klager 159

Chapter 9.  Coralie: The Forgotten Rocket, Christophe Rothmund 189

Chapter 10.  Vela—A Space System Success Story, John R. London, III 215

Chapter 11.  Construction and Testing of the First Soviet Automatic  Interplanetary Stations, G. Yu. Maksimov 233

Chapter 12.  The Role of Academician S. P. Korolev in the Development of Space Rocket Vehicles for Lunar Exploration with the Help of Manned Spaceships, V. P. Mishin 247

Chapter 13.  Black Arrow—The First British Satellite Launcher, R. D. Gould and J. Harlow 257

PART V: Pioneers of Rocketry and Astronautics

Chapter 14.  The Experience of Hermann Oberth, John Elder 277

Chapter 15.  Activities of Former Peenemunders who Remained in Germany, B. Heinz and B. Kit 319

Index 325