Contains a 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. Reprint of a book that was originally published in 1980.

Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (Nasa History Series.)

History

Bilstein, Roger E.

Americas

United States Govt Printing Office

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

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Franklin Classics

 Contains a 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.  Reprint of a book that was originally published in 1980.

Sagebrush Education Resources

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.

Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts

World

Johns Hopkins University Press

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics―forerunner of today's NASA―emerged in 1915, when airplanes were curiosities made of wood and canvas and held together with yards of baling wire. At the time an unusual example of government intrusion (and foresight, given the importance of aviation to national military concerns), the committee oversaw the development of wind tunnels, metal fabrication, propeller design, and powerful new high-speed aircraft during the 1920s and '30s. In this richly illustrated account, acclaimed historian of aviation Roger E. Bilstein combines the story of NACA and NASA to provide a fresh look at the agencies, the problems they faced, and the hard work as well as inventive genius of the men and women who found the solutions.
NACA research during World War II led to critical advances in U.S. fighter and bomber design and, Bilstein explains, contributed to engineering standards for helicopters. After 1945 the agency's test pilots experimented with jet-powered aircraft, testing both human and technical limits in trying to break the so-called "sound barrier." In October 1958, when the launch of the Soviet Sputnik signaled the beginning of the space race, NACA formed the nucleus of the new National Aeronautics and Space Agency. The new agency's efforts to meet President Kennedy's challenge―safely landing a man on the Moon and returning him to Earth before the end of the 1960s―is one of the great adventure stories of all time. Bilstein goes on to describe NASA's recent planetary and extraplanetary exploration, as well as its less well-known research into the future of aeronautical design.

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space: An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space: An Illustrated History of Naca and Nasa

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

An historical study of the aerospace industry from its beginnings in the years following the Wright brothers' flight in 1903 to today's space shuttle. Bilstein (history, U. of Houston) analyzes the international influence on American aviation and space technology, demonstrating how the industry's growth was augmented by wartime advances, foreign technology and competition, and the design success of government organizations such as NACA and NASA. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The American Aerospace Industry: From Workshop to Global Enterprise (Twayne's Evolution of Modern Business Series)

Business & Money

Industries

Twayne Pub

From 1918 to 1929 American aviation progressed through the pioneering era, establishing the pattern of its impact on national security, commerce and industry, communication, travel, geography, and international relations. In America, as well as on a global basis, society experienced a dramatic transformation from a two-dimensional world to a three-dimensional one. By 1929 aviation was poised at the threshold of a new epoch. Covering both military and civil aviation trends, Roger Bilstein's study highlights these developments, explaining how the pattern of aviation activities in the 1920s is reflected through succeeding decades. At the same time, the author discusses the social, economic, and political ramifications of this robust new technology. Aviation histories usually pay little attention to aeronautical images as an aspect of popular culture. Thoughtful observers of the 1920s such as Stuart Chase and Heywood Broun considered aircraft to be an encouraging example of the new technology-workmanlike, efficient, and graceful, perhaps representing a new spirit of international good will. Flight Patterns is particularly useful for its discussion of both economic and cultural factors, treating them as integrated elements of the evolving air age.

Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development In the United States, 1918-1929

University of Georgia Press

Aviation in Texas

Miller, Jay

Texas Monthly Pr

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Legare Street Press

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Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (Nasa History Series.)

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

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

Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space: An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space: An Illustrated History of Naca and Nasa

The American Aerospace Industry: From Workshop to Global Enterprise (Twayne's Evolution of Modern Business Series)

Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development In the United States, 1918-1929

Aviation in Texas

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