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Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum

Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum

by Lynne C. Murphy

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Author
Murphy, Lynne C.
Title
Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Credits
Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
Subject
Astronautics -- United States -- Exhibitions
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 57421
Release Date
June 30, 2018
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum — Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data — Negative numbers and photo credits
  2. 2.Contents
  3. 3.Introduction
  4. 4.Robert H. Goddard’s Rockets: March 16, 1926, and 1941
  5. 5.Sputnik 1
  6. 6.Explorer 1
  7. 7.Mariner 2
  8. 8.Friendship 7
  9. 9.Gemini 4
  10. 10.Apollo 11 Command Module, Columbia
  11. 11.Ponnamperuma Experiments
  12. 12.Photomosaic Globe of Mars
  13. 13.Mariner 10
  14. 14.U.S.S. Enterprise
  15. 15.Goddard A-Series Rocket, 1935
  16. 16.WAC Corporal
  17. 17.Aerobee 150
  18. 18.Farside
  19. 19.Nike-Cajun
  20. 20.ARCAS
  21. 21.Cricket
  22. 22.Viking 12
  23. 23.MOUSE
  24. 24.Agena-B
  25. 25.Science Satellites
  26. 26.Meteorological Satellites
  27. 27.Communications Satellites
  28. 28.Lunar Module
  29. 29.Lunar Orbiter
  30. 30.Surveyor
  31. 31.Goddard Rockets: May 1926 and “Hoopskirt,” 1928 — The Rocket of May 4, 1926 — The “Hoopskirt” Rocket
  32. 32.19th-Century Rockets: Congreve and Hale
  33. 33.American Rocket Society: Engines and Parts
  34. 34.H-1 Engine
  35. 35.RL-10 Engine
  36. 36.JATO Units
  37. 37.LR-87 Engine
  38. 38.Toward 2076: The Future of Rocket Propulsion — A Cesium Ion Rocket Engine
  39. 39.Project Orion — The Plug-Nozzle Rocket Engine
  40. 40.Space Suits
  41. 41.V-2 (A-4)
  42. 42.V-1
  43. 43.German Antiaircraft Missiles — Rheintochter I — Hs-298 — X-4
  44. 44.Jupiter-C
  45. 45.Vanguard
  46. 46.Scout
  47. 47.Minuteman III
  48. 48.Poseidon C-3
  49. 49.Skylab
  50. 50.Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
  51. 51.M2-F3 Lifting Body
  52. 52.Freedom 7
  53. 53.Gemini 7
  54. 54.F-1 Engine
  55. 55.Lunar Roving Vehicle
  56. 56.Apollo Lunar Tools and Equipment
  57. 57.Apollo Command Module: Skylab 4
  58. 58.Moon Rocks
  59. 59.Suggested Reading
  60. 60.Front Cover:
  61. 61.Back Cover:
  62. 62.Transcriber’s Notes

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