ROCKETS AND MISSILES – Baker, David. The Rocket, the History and Development of Rocket and Missile Technology . New York: Crown Publishers, 1978. One of the most comprehensive works ever published on rocket and missile technology, signed by astronauts. SIGNED and INSCRIBED with their launch vehicle number(s) by Buzz ALDRIN, Alan BEAN, Scott CARPENTER, Gene CERNAN, Walt CUNNINGHAM, Fred HAISE, Joe KERWIN, Jack LOUSMA, Edgar MICHELL, Rusty SCHWEICKART, Dave SCOTT and Paul WEITZ. Acknowledged as the international reference work on this subject. Baker covers initial steps with fire-sticks and gunpowder, the visions and experimentations by early rocket developers Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Hermann Oberth, and Robert Goddard, as well as the extensive application of rocket technology by Nazi Germany and post-war efforts by the allied powers. The final chapters describe the Space Race and rocket technology developed by both the United States and Russian to send men into space and the Saturn rocket needed to accomplish a lunar landing and discusses the open window to the 21th Century with the potential of nuclear propulsion and reusable unmanned vehicles. 13.5 by 10 inches. 276 pp. 350 illustrations and two color fold-outs. Original cloth with dust jacket.
ROCKETS AND MISSILES – Baker, David. The Rocket, the History and Development of Rocket and Missile Technology . New York: Crown Publishers, 1978. One of the most comprehensive works ever published on rocket and missile technology, signed by astronauts. SIGNED and INSCRIBED with their launch vehicle number(s) by Buzz ALDRIN, Alan BEAN, Scott CARPENTER, Gene CERNAN, Walt CUNNINGHAM, Fred HAISE, Joe KERWIN, Jack LOUSMA, Edgar MICHELL, Rusty SCHWEICKART, Dave SCOTT and Paul WEITZ. Acknowledged as the international reference work on this subject. Baker covers initial steps with fire-sticks and gunpowder, the visions and experimentations by early rocket developers Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Hermann Oberth, and Robert Goddard, as well as the extensive application of rocket technology by Nazi Germany and post-war efforts by the allied powers. The final chapters describe the Space Race and rocket technology developed by both the United States and Russian to send men into space and the Saturn rocket needed to accomplish a lunar landing and discusses the open window to the 21th Century with the potential of nuclear propulsion and reusable unmanned vehicles. 13.5 by 10 inches. 276 pp. 350 illustrations and two color fold-outs. Original cloth with dust jacket.
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