Book ID: CBB000063429

Science with a vengence: How the military created the US space sciences after World War II (1992)

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DeVorkin, David H. (Author)


Springer-Verlag


Publication Date: 1992
Physical Details: xxii + 404 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Jones, F.C. (1993) Review of "Science with a vengence: How the military created the US space sciences after World War II". American Journal of Physics (pp. 860-61). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Launius, Roger D.
Wilson, Keith T.
Wachtel, C.
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Reinke, Niklas
Raushenbakh, Boris V.
Journals
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
Journal of American Culture
Historian: Journal of History
Publishers
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA History Office
Wiley
University of Georgia Press
Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Scandinavian Univ. Press
Concepts
Astronautics
Space travel; space flight
Spacecraft
Space Travel
Rockets; rocketry
Technology and society
People
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Oberth, Hermann
Time Periods
20th century
Places
United States
Germany
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John C. Stennis Space Center
Langley Aeronautical Laboratory (United States)
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