Volume 23, AAS History Series,
History of Rocketry and Astronautics
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA),
Jerusalem, Israel, 1994
Oslo, Norway, 1995
Jerusalem, Israel, 1994
Oslo, Norway, 1995
Page
Foreword vii
Preface
ix
PART I: Rocketry and Astronautics: Pioneering Work
Chapter 1. Evolution and Accomplishments of the Supervision of Youth Research Experiments (SYRE) Subcommittee of the IAF Education Committee, George S. James and Hervé Moulin 3
Chapter 2. Launching Europe Into Space: The Origins of the Ariane Rocket, Arturo Russo 35
Chapter 3. A-1: The First French Satellite, Hervé Moulin 51
Chapter 4. Etude 4212: The First French Large Liquid Rocket Project, Christophe Rothmund 73
Chapter 5. The Delta Project: Early LOX/Kerosene Engines in the United Kingdom, John Harlow 91
Chapter 6. Albert Püllenberg and the GEFRA: A Memoir (Gesellschaft für Raketenforschung), Konrad K. Danneberg and Mitchell R. Sharpe 107
Chapter 7. “Pencil” Rocket and Hideo Itokawa: Pioneering Work of Japanese Rocketry, Yasunori Matogawa 121
Chapter 8. The ‘Trip to the Moon’ and Other Early Spaceflight Simulation Shows, ca. 1901-1915: Part I, Frank H. Winter 133
Chapter 9. Krafft Ehricke’s Extraterrestrial Imperative: A Memoir, Marsha Freeman 163
Chapter 10. The SE 1500: Preliminary French Missile Tests, Philippe Jung 173
Chapter 11. The Personality of the Rocket Pioneer Professor Hermann Oberth, Erna Roth-Oberth and Reinhard Layritz 203
Chapter 12. The Excluded: Hermann Oberth and Rudolf Nebel in the Third Reich, Michael J. Neufeld 209
Chapter 13. Biographical Memoir – Dr. Homer Joseph Stewart: Recollections from 1934-1980, Shirley Thomas 223
Chapter
14. The History of Rocket-Space Techniques Development in the Ukraine,
V. F. Prisniakov and F. P. Sanin 245
PART II: Rocketry and Astronautics: Applications
Chapter 15. Main Fields of the Current Studies on the History of Astronautics and Rocketry, B. V. Rauschenbach and Victor N. Sokolsky 255
Chapter 16. The Grand Central Rocket Company, Charles E. Bartley and Robert G. Bramscher 267
Chapter 17. Apollo at 25: A Retrospective, Frederick I. Ordway III 279
Chapter 18. Dniepropetrovsk Space Rocket Complex in the 1970s and 1980s, V. F. Prisniakov, V. P. Gorbulin and F. P. Sanin 293
Chapter 19. The San Marco Project, C. Buongiorno 303
Chapter 20. Another Destiny of Rocketry in Japan: Festival Rockets in Japanese Shrines, Yasunori Matogawa 315
Chapter 21. The First Manned Lunar Landing Spacecraft, Ross Fleisig 327
Chapter 22. From SEPR to SEP, 1944-1994, Christophe Rothmund 351
Chapter
23. About the Development of the Means of Putting Payloads into Low-Earth
Orbit, V. P. Mishin 375
PART III: Cold War Projects
Chapter 24. Evolution of the Soviet Space Industry, Maxim V. Tarasenko 383
Chapter 25. The History of the Foundation of the Soviet Cosmodrome Baikonour, D. V. Shatalov 393
Chapter 26. What the Russians Learned From German V-2 Technology, James Harford 401
Chapter 27. The SE 4500 Nuclear Missile, Philippe Jung 425
Chapter 28. The History of Space Launch Vehicle Development, S. N. Konyukhov and V. A. Paschenko 451
Chapter 29. The Race to the Moon: A Look Back From Baikonour, Oleg A. Sokolov 459
Chapter 30. M. K. Yangel: The Unknown Pages of Biography, S. N. Konyukhov and L. V. Andreyev 467
Chapter 31. The U.S. and Soviet Space Systems Developments as Driven by the Cold War Competition, Maxim V. Tarasenko 477
Chapter 32. The Evolution of the Institutional Structure of the United States Military Space Program: The History of the National Reconnaissance Office, Dwayne A. Day 489
Chapter 33. Roles and Impacts of RAND in the pre-Apollo Space Program of the United States, Bruno W. Augenstein 505
Chapter 34. The Soviet Program of Moon Surface Research (1966-1976), B. V. Rauschenbach 527
Chapter 35. A Brief History of Baikonur, Jacques Villain 533
Index
547