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Blast from the past: A rocket history quiz

The history of the rocket stretches back far longer than most people realize. Long before spaceflight, early civilizations ...
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History of rocketry and astronautics : proceedings of the Thirty-Second History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics : Melbourne, Australia, 1998 / Kerrie ...

pt I. Memoirs. 2001 : a space odyssey -- vision versus reality at 30 / Frederick I. Ordway III. ; French space biological experiments with animals before 1968 / Claude-Alexandre Timsit, Gerard ...
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History of rocketry and astronautics : proceedings of the twenty-second and twenty-third History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, Bangalore, India, 1988 ...

pt. I. Early solid propellant rocketry. Indo-Aryan traditions and the history of astronautics ; William Congreve and the City of use -- pt. II. Rocketry and astronautics : concepts, theories and ...
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Who invented the modern rocket engine?

Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust backward fast enough to push itself forward. The person who first turned ...