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Spaceflight and Rocketry: A Chronology (Hardcover)

by David Baker (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Facts On File Inc (25 April 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0816018537
  • ISBN-13: 978-0816018536
  • Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 22.3 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 846,820 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Traces the development of aeronautic concepts and technology from early Greek steam turbines to the joint American-Russian space missions.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A vast large scale effort but somehow disappoints me!, 11 Jul 2000
I am sorry that my disappointment at modern rocket boooks has finally boiled over. This is wonderful on spacecraft , but it sets its stall as a guide to ROCKETRY. Thus, like all good monday morning quarter backs,it looks back sees the success of the liquid fuel rocket and (almost literally!) goes with the flow!

But you can equally argue that the 1930s and the second world war , especially, were dominated not by Von Braun (whose war crimes are glossed over in the usual VB PR way) but by solid fuel devices which proved highly successful in war.So Congreve gets a full record but the successful rockets of WW2 might just as well never have existed. Am I dreaming or did Typhoons and Beaufighters prove hugely successful as rocket armed ground attack aircraft.Were German troops not even more afraid of Russian Katyshka ground to ground rockets.But these dont fit in with the drift that liquid fuel is wonderful!So we are also deprived of solid fuel pioneers like Gerhard Zucker who had built the worlds largest rocket up to 1930.Tiling also gets no mention,Dr Smith in India (75 rockets , I think)gets one small paragraph.People were genuinely excited by rockets in the 20s and early 30s and, in those days, that meant solid fuel.

So too many gaps for the serious historian.Having said that, I could not doo better myself, its a wonderful effort and so I feel guilty for criticising such a major effort.

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