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... school, I read two books by Jules Verne...which shaped my life-long interest"); cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man into space; and astronaut Frank Borman. Astronomer Robert Richardson, in Man and the Moon (1961), wrote, "There can be no doubt that Jules Verne's Trip to the Moon with all ...

... TECHNICAL DICTIONARY OF ROCKETS AND ASTRONAUTICS''' by Partei, G. ''Rome, 1955: Associazione Italiana Razzi, 107 pages, $3.00'' This multi-language dictionary provides equivalents, in Italian, German, English, and French, of more than 1 ... Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961.'' by Frederick I. Ordway III Category:Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology by Frederick I. Ordway ...

... DICTIONARY OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTRONAUTICS''' by Spitz, A. and F. Gaynor ''New York, 1959: Philosophical Library, 439 pages, $6.00'' The dictionary provides definitions of astronomical terms and, to a considerably lesser extent, astronautical terms. Extracted ... Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961.'' by Frederick I. Ordway III Category:Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology by Frederick I. Ordway ...

... AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS''' by Hoff, N. J. and W. G. Vincenti (eds) ''New York, 1960: Pergamon Press, Inc., 468 pages, $12.00'' The ... Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961.'' by Frederick I. Ordway III Category:Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology by Frederick I. Ordway ...

... repeated in 1913 by F. Rodman Law, but with less fatal results. Image:9138030 ruggieri.jpg border 200px ''Claude Ruggieri'' Between the last half of the nineteenth century and the first decade ... rockets of the Civil War. Their unreliability, small size and lack of power was one of the reasons Jules Verne chose to launch his astronauts by means of a giant cannon. One way to prove ...

... correct and promises a great deal for the future, particularly if thinking of interplanetary flights. . . . The same idea was developed by Tsiolkovsky after Kibalchich.” Yakov Perelman, an early pioneer in Russian rocketry and astronautics ... suggest that a vehicle could be propelled by rocket propulsion. The Spanish inventor Frederico Gomez Arias did so in 1872, as did the Englishmen Butler and Edwards in 1869. (Amazingly, the latter ...

... "Shirley Lois Moon Girl" after Daniel's daughter. Made largely of cardboard and linoleum, a 1921 Chevy chassis, and powered by a set of gasoline-burning rocket motors, the thing must have been ... of flying a rocket to the moon. He and brother Floyd operated a shop where they repaired cars and aircraft. They had been fascinated by aviation even before the Wright Brother's first ... at the New York State Museum in Albany. It was rescued in the 1960s by Ralph Hodge and Keith Marvin from the back yard of the inventor, who had retired it in ...

... been Venus then, as well (the rocket was to have been guided to the planet by "polarized magnetic controls"). The Baltimore rocket was fueled with 50 gallons of gasoline with eight ... it did succeed in drawing a substantial crowd, and probably an ambulance. The hopeful astronauts decided that what they needed was a booster and, as they figure that would cost them at least ...

... he calls it—are ascribed to Pseudoman. By using this literary device, Northrup not only described the machines and experiments he actually had carried out and patented, but was able to extend them ... his guns’ performance and acceleration without loss or damage to his projectiles, Northrup simply placed two of his guns muzzle to muzzle; the projectile accelerated by one is braked by the other, using ...

... that would be powered by rocket turbines. Although Goddard never had anything more in mind than a new way of propelling aircraft, Popular Science took the idea and ran with it, turning ... pair of ordinary propellers. As the plane climbed to higher altitudes, a rack-and-pinion device operated by the pilot would remove the turbines from the exhaust jets. The plane would then ...

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