Words and illustrations highlight all of the missions and milestones of space travel, from the development of early rocketry to the race to the Moon and beyond, including the physics behind manned flight, and profiles of scientists and astronauts.

Spaceflight: A Smithsonian Guide (Smithsonian Guides Series)

Science & Math

Neal, Valerie

Lewis, Cathleen S.

Winter, Frank H.

Technology

Macmillan General* Reference

Spaceflight This comprehensive, easy-to-use guide tells the fascinating story of one of the greatest scientific achievements of our times—the conquest of space. Produced in association with the world-renowned Smithsonian Institution and its scientific experts, Spaceflight recounts the epic adventure of the men, women, and machines that took us into space. This Smithsonian Guide features: 
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<li>Detailed text by Smithsonian experts clearly explaining how spaceflight developed</li> <li>More than 350 full-color photographs and explanatory illustrations of spacecraft, equipment, people, and events</li> <li>Full-color foldout timeline of spaceflight milestones decade by decade</li> <li>40-page quick-access A-to-Z glossary, including capsule biographies, special terms, and key concepts</li> </ul> Other titles: Aviation • Planets • Zoo Animals • Automobiles • Railroads

Spaceflight: The Complete Illustrated Story - from the Earliest Designs to Plans for the 21st Century (Smithsonian Guides)

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

wiley

Since ancient times, men and women have dreamed of soaring among the stars, but only in this century has that dream been realized. In Rockets into Space, Frank Winter tells the fascinating story of the modern launch vehicle, from the mythological musings of the Babylonians and Greeks to the present-day reality of manned and unmanned space flight. In concise yet comprehensive chapters dense with anecdotal detail, Winter tracks the theoretical formulations and technological breakthroughs that have charted the evolution of rocket propulsion and vehicle design. He pays particular attention to the remarkable contributions of pioneers Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, Hermann Oberth, Eugen Sanger, and Sergei Korolev, whose genius and vision paved the way for later innovation. He describes the clandestine development of the V-2 rocket in Germany, under the technical leadership of Wernher von Braun, and its dramatic impact on postwar rocket research and satellite development in the United States and the Soviet Union. He also chronicles the complex events of the last three decades, which have produced ever more sophisticated rockets capable of launching larger payloads, from weapons to weather and communications satellites. Finally, he surveys exotic propulsion systems-nuclear, electric, solar, photon, laser-that lie on the frontiers of science today but that will shape the spaceflight and space policy decisions of tomorrow. Rockets into Space is an authoritative, entertaining guidebook for all who are interested in the history of space travel.

Rockets into Space (Frontiers of Space)

Harvard University Press

Each year, millions of visitors flock to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to look at the Bell X-1 aircraft-the vehicle in which Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947. This in-depth look at the legendary aircraft tells the story of this momentous achievement-how the technology was developed, conflicts were resolved, and Yeager and his fellow pilots became the heroic figures depicted in The Right Stuff. A wealth of historical photographs of the Bell X-1 enriches the text, which includes such fascinating material as Yeager's official memo about the historic flight. This is as close as readers will ever get to being inside the aircraft that paved the way for supersonic flight, thus ushering in the era of space exploration.

Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier

Biographies & Memoirs

Van Der Linden, F. Robert

Pisano, Dominick A.

Historical

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

The Filipinos in America (In America Books)

Surveys Filipino immigration to the United States and discusses the contributions made by Filipinos to various areas of American life.

Teen & Young Adult

Lerner Pub Group

From the "Manilamen," who escaped from Spanish galleons in New Orleans in the 1700s, to the more than eight hundred thousand Americans of Filipino ancestry today, this study traces the history and achievements of immigrants from the Philipine Islands

Winter (National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC) details the history, development, international impact, and applications of the gunpowder rocket. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The First Golden Age Of Rocketry : Congreve and Hale rockets of the nineteenth century

History

Smithsonian

Examines the history of aeronautics, covering each decade since the experiments of the Wright Brothers, and features details about notable people, events, and machines.

100 Years of Flight: A Chronicle of Aerospace History, 1903-2003 (Library of Flight)

F Winter and F Van Der Linden, National Air and Space Museum

AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)

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Books by Winter, Frank H.

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Spaceflight: A Smithsonian Guide (Smithsonian Guides Series)

Spaceflight: The Complete Illustrated Story - from the Earliest Designs to Plans for the 21st Century (Smithsonian Guides)

Rockets into Space (Frontiers of Space)

Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier

The Filipinos in America (In America Books)

The Filipinos in America (In America Books)

The First Golden Age Of Rocketry : Congreve and Hale rockets of the nineteenth century

100 Years of Flight: A Chronicle of Aerospace History, 1903-2003 (Library of Flight)