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Already a highly respected rocket scientist and compatriot of Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley was the author of bestselling books and at the forefront of popular science journalism. But as von Braun came onto center stage with his Saturn rockets, Ley was ostracized and excluded from the limelight by younger historians and scientists. Buss gives us the first full-length biography of Ley, presenting his contribution to modern science and science journalism.

Rocketry --- Scientists --- Ley, Willy, --- Le, Ṿili, --- ליי, ווילי

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A discussion of the work in rocketry and space research carried out in the UK in the 1950's and 1960's. The projects covered include rocket-propelled aircraft, large military missiles such as the medium range ballistic missile "Blue Streak", and the satellite launcher "Black Arrow".

Astronautics --- Rocketry --- Aeronautics --- Space sciences --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- History.

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Access -- no single word better describes the primary concern of the exploration and development of space. Every participant in space activities -- civil, military, scientific, or commercial -- needs affordable, reliable, frequent, and flexible access to space. To Reach the High Frontier details the histories of the various space access vehicles developed in the United States since the birth of the space age in 1957. Each case study has been written by a specialist knowledgeable about the vehicle described and places each system in the larger context of the history of spaceflight. The technic

Rocketry --- Launch vehicles (Astronautics) --- Aeronautics --- Astronautics --- Space launch vehicles --- Artificial satellites --- Rockets (Aeronautics) --- History. --- Launching

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This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.

Liquid propellants. --- Liquid propellants --- Rockets (Aeronautics) --- Aerial rockets --- Flying-machines --- High-speed aeronautics --- Projectiles --- Rocketry --- Interplanetary voyages --- Jet propulsion --- Rocket engines --- Liquid rocket propellants --- Propellants --- History. --- Fuel

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This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the recent Nazi war effort, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, and by the rocketeers' families, co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the Space Race, and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology, and asking Americans to consider their country's own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past.

Aerospace engineers -- United States -- Biography. --- Ex-Nazis -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- German Americans -- Alabama -- Huntsville -- History -- 20th century. --- Rocketry -- Biography -- 20th century. --- Rocketry --- Aerospace engineers --- German Americans --- Ex-Nazis --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics --- Former Nazis --- Nazis --- Ethnology --- Germans --- Engineers --- Aeronautics --- Astronautics --- History