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100 1 _avan Pelt, Michel.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRocketing Into the Future
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe History and Technology of Rocket Planes /
_cby Michel van Pelt.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2012.
300 _aXVIII, 366 p. 162 illus., 60 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 1 _aSpringer Praxis Books
505 0 _aIllustrations -- Author's preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A crash course in rocket plane design -- Chapter 3: Germany's wonder weapons -- Chapter 4: Non-German wartime rocket fighters -- Chapter 5: The rise and fall of the rocket interceptor -- Chapter 6: Breaking the barrier -- Chapter 7: Rocket plane spaceflight -- Chapter 8: Future spaceplanes -- Chapter 9: Joyriding a rocket plane -- Chapter 10: Man versus robot -- Chapter 11: Conclusions -- Appendix: Aircraft maximum velocity and altitude evolution -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aRocketing into the Future journeys into the exciting world of rocket planes, examining the exotic concepts and actual flying vehicles that have been devised over the last one hundred years. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 photographs, it recounts the history of rocket planes from the early pioneers who attached simple rockets on to their wooden glider airplanes to the modern world of high-tech research vehicles. The book then looks at the possibilities for the future. The technological and economic challenges of the Space Shuttle proved insurmountable, and thus the program was unable to fulfill its promise of low-cost access to space. However, the burgeoning market of suborbital space tourism may yet give the necessary boost to the development of a truly reusable spaceplane.
650 0 _aEngineering.
650 0 _aAstrophysics.
650 0 _aAstronomy.
650 0 _aAstronautics.
650 1 4 _aEngineering.
650 2 4 _aAerospace Technology and Astronautics.
650 2 4 _aPopular Science in Astronomy.
650 2 4 _aExtraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9781461431992
830 0 _aSpringer Praxis Books
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3200-5
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