History of Rocketry and Astronautics: Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth History Symposiium of the International Academy of Astronautics, Montreal, Canada, 1991J. D. Hunley |
Contents
French Rocketry 17391872 | 3 |
Gravity Propulsion Research at UCLA and JPL 19621964 | 27 |
The Romanian Inventor Paul Popovǎtzs Contribution to | 109 |
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