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By J. D. Hunley

In this definitive research, J. D. Hunley lines the program’s improvement from Goddard’s early rockets (and the German V-2 missile) throughout the Titan IVA and the gap go back and forth, with a spotlight on space-launch autos. for the reason that those rockets usually developed from early missiles, he will pay substantial consciousness to missile know-how, now not as an result in itself, yet as a contributor to launch-vehicle technology.

Focusing particularly at the engineering tradition of this system, Hunley communicates this very human aspect of technological improvement via anecdotes, personality sketches, and case reviews of difficulties confronted by way of rocket engineers. He exhibits how this type of hugely adaptive procedure enabled the evolution of a highly advanced expertise that used to be impressive—but decidedly no longer rocket science.

exact in its single-volume insurance of the evolution of launch-vehicle know-how from 1926 to 1991, this meticulously researched paintings will tell students and engineers attracted to the background of know-how and innovation, in addition to these focusing on the background of area flight.

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