Space TravelBeskriver udviklingen inden for raketter og rumforskning samt situationen i begyndelsen af 1950'erne. |
Contents
AUTHORS PREFACE | viii |
From Small Beginnings | 27 |
CHAPTER 2 | 71 |
Copyright | |
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acceleration Aerobee aerodynamic aircraft altitude approximately astronautics atmosphere atomic Bell X-2 booster Braun British Interplanetary Society cabin carried centrifuge chamber climb combustion cooling cosmic crew diameter distance Douglas Skyrocket Earth energy engineering equipment exhaust gases exhaust velocity experiments feet fins fired flight fuel German Goddard gravity heat Hermann Oberth inches instruments journey Laboratory landing launching liquid oxygen mass-ratio Max Valier maximum miles per second Mirak missile Moon neutrons nose nozzle nuclear Oberth orbit orbital rocket oxygen tank parachute payload Peenemunde pilot planet possible pressure problems propellant tanks propulsion R. A. Smith radar radiation radio reactor Repulsor Rheinbote rocket motor Rudolf Nebel Satellite Vehicle second step Skyrocket space-flight space-ship space-station speed star supersonic surface take-off temperature tests third step three-step rocket thrust tons trajectory United vanes Viking Viking rocket weight Wernher von Braun Willy Ley