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To a distant day the rocket pioneers /
Published 2008An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Blazing the trail the early history of spacecraft and rocketry /
Published 2004Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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The development of propulsion technology for U.S. space-launch vehicles, 1926-1991
Published 2007Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Dark side of the moon the magnificent madness of the American lunar quest /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…-- Sputnik -- The red rockets glare -- Muttnik -- Rocket jocks -- Before this decade is out -- The sleep of reason produces monsters -- Lost in space -- Sacrifices on the altar of St. …”
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Space flight history, technology, and operations /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The early history of space flight -- Rockets and propulsion -- Planets -- Orbits -- Military space operations -- Mercury -- Gemini -- Apollo -- Space stations -- The space shuttle -- Spacecraft systems -- Russian space history.…”
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The godfather of tabloid Generoso Pope Jr. and the National enquirer /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…The man in perspective -- Family connections -- Kid Wheeler-Dealer -- Friends in low places -- From gore to groceries -- A second start -- Rocketing up -- Perfecting the formula -- Lantana 33464 -- The million-dollar tree : ho! …”
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America's battalion Marines in the first Gulf war /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…The alert -- India Company leads the way -- Saudi Arabia: the warehouses -- Cement ridge -- The chemical threat -- Holidays -- Al Mishab: working with the Arabs -- The air war starts -- Rockets -- Marines in Khafji -- Cross-training: another step in the relationship -- The first American ground action: the artillery raids -- The alarms go off -- The battle for Khafji -- With the recon teams in the city -- Melissa and friends -- Khafji retaken -- Movement west to attack position -- Moving up to the minefields -- The breach -- Prisoners -- Kuwait International Airport -- Yellow ribbons -- Parting shots -- The years after.…”
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Red cosmos K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Tsiolkovskii, Russian public culture, and the mythology of Soviet cosmonautics, 1857-1964 -- Beginnings, teaching science in a provincial context: Tsiolkovskii's years in the Russian locale, 1857-1917 -- Dreaming of the cosmos: early scientific and technical experimentation in pre-1917 Kaluga, Russia -- Getting serious about rocket flight in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928 -- Cross-fertilizing futuristic literary genres: utopian science fiction or didactic popular technology in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1928 -- Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman: technology, Soviet national identity, and the memorialization of a local hero in the dawn of Sputnik, 1928-1957 -- Epilogue and conclusion: chudo (wonder) or chudak (crank), the legacy of Tsiolkovskii in the Khrushchev era and beyond 1964.…”
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