Between Sputnik and the Shuttle : new perspectives on American astronautics

Author(s)

• Durant, Frederick C.
• Disher, John H.
• AAS Goddard Memorial Symposium
• AAS Goddard Memorial Symposium
• American Astronautical Society. History Committee
• American Astronautical Society

Bibliographic Information

Between Sputnik and the Shuttle : new perspectives on American astronautics

Frederick C. Durant, III, editor ; John H. Disher ... [et al.]

（AAS history series, v. 3）

Published for American Astronautical Society by Univelt, c1981

• pbk.

Uniform Title

Advances in the astronautical sciences

Note

Selected papers from the 17th Goddard Memorial Symposium, held 1979, and the 18th Goddard Memorial Symposium, held 1980, and sponsored by the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society

"A supplement to Advances in the astronautical sciences."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Introduction / F.C. Durant, III
• Presidents and space / Eugene M. Emme
• U.S. Congress and outer space / Eilene Galloway
• The political economy of American astronautics / Mary A. Holman and Theodore Suranyi-Unger, Jr
• Evolution and problems of space law on planet earth / Stephen E. Doyle
• Space transportation / John H. Disher
• Technological innovation for success / John L. Sloop
• Lessons of Apollo for large-scale technology / Robert C. Seamans, Jr. and Frederick I. Ordway, III
• Astronautics and art / Frederick C. Durant, III

Details

• NCID: BA26819671
• ISBN:
  • 0877031452
  • 0877031495
• LCCN: 83100038
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: San Diego, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 334 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TL789.8.U5
  • DC19 : 629.4/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Astronautics -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12346662