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Foreword vii
Preface ix
Chapter 1. The History of the UFA Rocket, Karlheinz Rohrwild 3
Chapter 2. Rocket Center Peenemünde: Personal Memories, Konrad Dannenberg and Ernst Stuhlinger 27
Chapter 3. Klaus Riedel at Peenemünde, Harald Tresp 41
Chapter 4. Highlights of 50 Years at Aerojet, a Pioneering American Rocket Company, 1942-1992, Frank H. Winter and George S. James 53
Chapter 5. The Great Results and Perspectives of the Development of Rocket and Space Engineering, V. P. Mishin 107
Chapter 6. The SE4200: First Ramjet Missile?, Philippe Jung 115
Chapter 7. German Engineers: Their Contribution to British Rocket Technology After World War II, John Becklake 157
Chapter 8. Alpha, Beta, and RTV-1: The Development of Early British Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines, J. Harlow 173
Chapter 9. A Survey of Rocketry for Space Science in Japan, Yasunori Matogawa 203
Chapter 10. Lunar Roving Vehicle: Historical Origins, Development and Deployment, Bettye B. Burkhalter and Mitchell R. Sharpe 227
Chapter 11. The History of the First Stage of Spacecraft Control Systems Development in the U.S.S.R., B. V. Rauschenbach 263
Chapter 12. On the History of Space Navigation Development, V. V. Ivashkin 271
Chapter 13. CNES: The French Space Agency, 1962-1992, Claude Carlier, Marcel Gilli and Louis Laidet 281
Chapter 14. The History of the Viking Engine, Christophe Rothmund 297
Chapter 15. The Development of Space Station Objectives, David W. Robinson 323
Chapter 16. The Rocket Research Institute, 1943-1993: 50 Years of Rocket Safety, Engineering and Space Education Programs, George S. James and Charles J. Piper 343
Index 401