Foreword vii
Preface ix
PART I
Rocketry and Astronautics: Pioneering Work
Chapter 1. The ‘Trip to the Moon’ and Other Early Spaceflight Simulation Shows ca. 1901-1915: Part 2, Frank H. Winter 3
Chapter 2. The Legacy of the Oberth Rocket of 1935, Karlheinz Rohrwild 29
Chapter 3. K. E. Tsiolkovsky and His Contribution to Space Life Sciences, O. G. Gazenko 45
Chapter 4. A Study of the History of Rocketry and Astronautics in the International Academy of Astronautics, V. N. Sokolsky, F. C. Durant III, F. I. Ordway III 51
PART II
Rocketry and Astronautics: Unmanned Applications
Chapter 5. ARIANE: the Story of a Successful Cooperation, Jacques Villain 67
Chapter 6. Redstone’s First Flight—Success or Failure?, Julius H. Braun 81
Chapter 7. The RAE-Vickers Rocket Powered Transonic Aircraft Model, 1945 to 1948, John Becklake 93
Chapter 8. The Historical Progress and Development of Space Technology and Education in China, Chen Shilu, Yan Hui, Cai Yuanli and Zhu Xiaoping 109
Chapter 9. Japanese Solid Rockets in World War II, Yasunori Matogawa 123
Chapter 10. The History of the Beginning of the Russian Plesetsk Cosmodrome, D. V. Shatalov 137
Chapter 11. The Development of Solid Rocket Motors in China, Huang Jianding and Ye Dingyou 145
Chapter 12. SNCASE Cannes Rockets of the 1950s, Philippe Jung 153
Chapter 13. German Rockets in Africa: The Explosive Heritage of Peenemünde, Theo Pirard 201
Chapter 14. The D1 French Satellite Program, Hervé Moulin 235
Chapter 15. The Rocket Flight Stability Problem: A History of Misconceptions, Boris V. Rauschenbach 251
PART III
Manned Projects
Chapter 16. Realized and Non Realized Projects of the Soviet Manned Lunar Program, Oleg A. Sokolov 259
Chapter 17. The Apollo Fire and Investigation: Facts Not Considered, Shirley Thomas 267
Chapter 18. The Flight That Never Happened: The Story of the First Women’s Cosmonaut Team, Valentina Ponomareva and Debra D. Facktor 307
Chapter 19. Soviet Space Designers When They Were Secrets, Christian Lardier 319
Chapter 20. "Man’s Now Going to Go to the Moon": Professor Frank Cotton and Australia’s Contribution to the Origins of the Partial Pressure Suit, Kerrie Dougherty 335
Index 353