Rockets and People, Volume 2: Creating a Rocket Industry
by Boris Chertok
Publisher: NASA 2006
ISBN/ASIN: 1470015080
ISBN-13: 9781470015084
Number of pages: 383
Description:
This is volume 2 -- Creating a Rocket Industry: Chertok not only describes and reflects upon his experiences, but he also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society's quest to explore the cosmos.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(3.6MB, PDF)
Similar books
Psychology of Space Exploration
by Douglas A. Vakoch - NASA
Contemporary research in historical perspective. This e-book explores some of the contributions of psychology to yesterday's great space race, today's orbiter and International Space Station missions, and tomorrow's journeys beyond Earth's orbit.
(10428 views)
by Douglas A. Vakoch - NASA
Contemporary research in historical perspective. This e-book explores some of the contributions of psychology to yesterday's great space race, today's orbiter and International Space Station missions, and tomorrow's journeys beyond Earth's orbit.
(10428 views)
Confronting Space Debris
by Dave Baiocchi, William Welser IV - RAND Corporation
Orbital space debris represents a growing threat to the operation of man-made systems in space. With the goal of guiding future remediation efforts, this monograph examines nine comparable problems that share similarities with orbital debris.
(6389 views)
by Dave Baiocchi, William Welser IV - RAND Corporation
Orbital space debris represents a growing threat to the operation of man-made systems in space. With the goal of guiding future remediation efforts, this monograph examines nine comparable problems that share similarities with orbital debris.
(6389 views)
Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990
by Roger E. Bilstein - United States Government Printing
This is a concise history of NACA and its successor agency, NASA. This edition not only updates the historical record, but restores aeronautics to its due place in the history of the agency and of mankind's most fascinating and continuing voyage.
(16295 views)
by Roger E. Bilstein - United States Government Printing
This is a concise history of NACA and its successor agency, NASA. This edition not only updates the historical record, but restores aeronautics to its due place in the history of the agency and of mankind's most fascinating and continuing voyage.
(16295 views)
How to design, build and test small liquid-fuel rocket engines
by Leroy J. Krzycki - Rocketlab
This text provides the amateur builder with design information, fabrication procedures, test equipement requirements, and safe oeprating procedures for small liquid-fuel rocket engines, which are relatively simple devices.
(17544 views)
by Leroy J. Krzycki - Rocketlab
This text provides the amateur builder with design information, fabrication procedures, test equipement requirements, and safe oeprating procedures for small liquid-fuel rocket engines, which are relatively simple devices.
(17544 views)