CONTENTS
Volume 9, AAS History Series,
History of Rocketry and Astonautics
Proceedings of the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), Lisbon, Portugal, 1975; Anaheim, California, 1976; and Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1977
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FOREWORD, R. Cargill Hall, series editor
PREFACE, Frederick I. Ordway, III, volume editor
PART I: SECTION ONE - EARLY SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKETRY 1
Chapter 1: Analysis of Rocket Construction, Described in Manuscripts and Printed Books During the 16th and 17th Centuries, Mieczyslaw Subotowicz 3
PART II: SECTION TWO - ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS: CONCEPTS, THEORIES, AND ANALYSES AFTER 1880 13
Chapter 2: Analysis of Early 19th Century Swedish Solid Propellants, Jan Hansson, A. Ingemar Skoog 15
Chapter 3: Beginnings of Airborne Aeromedical Weightlessness Research, Harald J. von Beckh, 29
Chapter 4: Early Concepts of Aerospace Systems, A. N. Ponomarev, V. S. Mikhailov 37
Chapter 5: Computer-Oriented Dynamic Modeling of Spacecraft: Historical Evolution of Eulerian Multibody Formalisms Since 1750, Robert E. Roberson 41
PART III: SECTION THREE - DEVELOPMENT OF LIQUID-AND-SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKETS, 1880-1945 61
Chapter 6: Organization and Results of the Work of the First Scientific Centers for Rocket Technology in the USSR, I. A. Merkulov 63
Chapter 7: Genesis of Liquid Hydrogen Propulsion Through 1945, John L. Sloop 79
Chapter 8: History of Development of First Space Rocket Engines in the USSR, V. I. Prishchepa 89
PART IV: SECTION FOUR - ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS AFTER 1945 105
Chapter 9: Beginnings of Rocket and Missile Activities in Switzerland, Nik A. Schliep 107
Chapter 10: Operation Backfire: England Launches the V2, Mitchell R. Sharpe 121
Chapter 11: Early Upper Atmospheric Research with Rockets, Thor Bergstralh, Ernst Krause 135
Chapter 12: Early History of the Skylark Rocket, E. B. Dorling 163
Chapter 13: First Rocket Experiments for Research on Solar Shortwave Radiation, G. S. Ivanov-Kholodnyy, L. A. Vedeshin 191
Chapter 14: Structure of Neutral Upper Atmosphere Air Samples and Falling Spheres, Leslie M. Jones 201
Chapter 15: Upper Atmosphere Research and the First Rocket Experiments in the USSR, B. A. Mirtov, L. A. Vedeshin 231
Chapter 16: Early Scientific History of the Rocket Grenade Experiment, William G. Stroud 237
Chapter 17: Early French Upper Atmosphere Research Using Rockets, A. Vassy 253
Chapter 18: Development of the First Automatic Stations for Lunar Flight in USSR, G. Yu. Maximov, Yu. A. Matusevich 261
PART V: SECTION FIVE - PIONEERS OF ROCKETRY AND ASTRONAUTICS 267
Chapter 19: Kepler’s “The Dream, or Lunar Astronomy” as a Predecessor of Space Research, Z. Horsky 269
Chapter 20: Albert Fonó: A Pioneer of Jet Propulsion, Istvån György Nagy 277
Chapter 21: S.P. Korolev and Soviet Rocket Technology, B. V. Rauschenbach 283
Chapter 22: Harry Bull, American Rocket Pioneer, Frank H. Winter 291
INDEX 313