Flight in America

Explains technological advances in aeronautics, assesses the links between American culture and flight technology, and chronicles the history of American flight--commercial, military, and private

Science & Math

Bilstein, Professor Roger E.

History & Philosophy

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Roger E. Bilstein's Flight in America has won acclaim as the foremost history of one of the twentieth century's landmark achievements―human flight. In this revised and expanded third edition, Bilstein chronicles changes in military, commercial, and space aviation in the 1990s. He offers a glimpse of the developments one might expect in the new millennium.

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

When first published in 1984, Roger Bilstein's Flight in America was widely hailed as the foremost history of what is arguably the most remarkable achievement of the twentieth century--human flight. Now, in this newly revised and expanded edition, Bilstein continues his comprehensive history to the closing decade of the present century and offers a glimpse of developments in the next.
"The most comprehensive survey of the history of American aeronautics and space flight yet published."--Technology and Culture.
"Bilstein casts wide and far to net virtually everything from technological trends and research and development to the effect of air travel on the expansion of major league baseball in the 1950s and early 1960s... A superior work that will satisfy aero buffsand professionals alike."--Journal of American History.

Astronomy & Space Science

NASA SP 4206. NASA History Series. Study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle for the Apollo Moon Missions. Recounts the exploits of the Saturn vehicle's operational life from orbital missions around Earth testing Apollo equipment to the Moon and back. First published in 1980, this superior quality reprint contains photographs and illustrations.

Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles

History

NASA History Office

Lucas, William R

World

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