CONTENTS
Volume 22, AAS History Series,
History of Rocketry and Astronautics
 
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh History Symposium of
the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA),
Graz, Austria, 1993

Page

Foreword vii

Preface ix

PART I: Rocketry and Astronautics: The Pioneers

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

PART II: The March to Space

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

PART III: The Space Age

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

PART IV: Planning for the Future

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