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... was W.R. Cook, his subordinates were F. Elstub, an RAF rocket expert, and A.D. Baxter a ... rocket pioneers, Walter Riedel . Almost all of the Germans came from the Walterwerke in Kiel Germany and as a consequence of that were mostly familiar with high test hydrogen peroxide rocket engines ... on to be used in the Europa-1 space rocket launch vehicle. Rockets such as Blowpipe, Seawolf, Blue Steel, ...

... -fix shock-prevention water system was hooked up November 1 during a countdown "notable for its smoothness," the Washington ... Shuttle's three main rocket engines. L. Michael Weeks, acting associate administrator for STS, said that the engineers would have to analyze ... to locate the trouble, and Shuttle operations director George F. Page finally announced that there would be no launch. Astronauts Col ...

... AIRCRAFT JET POWERPLANTS''' by Durham, F. P. ''New York, 1951: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 304 pages, $7.00'' There are chapters on ... thrust and the energy equation, thermodynamic properties of air and gas, combustion chambers, turbines, ramjet engines, rocket engines, etc., in this large size, illustrated book. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of ...

... first place. T/W ratios may be useful when comparing a chemical rocket engine with another or with an airplane engine with another, but here it’s diesel/electric sub thinking applied to ... in a good materials testing and qualification program. With that caveat, a nuclear rocket has the following components: 1. Pressure vessel - a machined specialty metal “can” a bit smaller than a 55 ...

... Raketenflug - Mitteilungen des Raketenflugplatzes Berlin'' that was produced entirely by Nebel, there are two possibilities: (1), Nebel himself was the author; and (2), another individual of the Raketenflugplatz who was ... us,” it continues. “Rocket flight is now where aviation was at the turn of the century...yet we had to start with something completely new, the rocket engine...rocket flight has to ...

... made available.... The fact that a new engine was invented here is not true. It was nothing more than practical work on the rocket engines for liquid propellants which have long been known ... this work was also undertaken before the German Army began its own rocket program that started in 1929. ref 1 November 1928 Further evidence on the progress of Winkler's experimentation during ... he concluded that while this was “the cheapest and safest form of rockets...For higher power only the liquid fuel rocket engine may be used, based on the combustion of a fuel with ...

... " Ley jumped years into the future. For the first rocket engine, which was tested by Wernher von Braun in early 1933, was called "Aggregat 1", short for A1. But no missile was completed ... far enough out of town to prepare in the near future for engine tests and missile launches. The first rocket launching test site in the world was built on the northwestern edge ... other missile specialists) shortly after his arrival in April 1935 to do a rocket mail shot. Ley brought his engine developments from Germany to the task. In 1937, he spent some time ...

... hemispherical fins. Thus, Riedel's primary practical solutions for the basic flight rocket consisted of: (1), placing both the pressurized nitrogen-feed and fuel (gasoline) systems within one ... of Rocket Engineering,” ''Aviation'', Vol. 35, November 1936, p. 19; and, “Rocket Propulsion - A Résumé of Theory with an Account of the Practical Experiments made to Date,” ''Aircraft Engineering'', Vol. ...

... ''Prelude'', p. 42; Ley, ''Rockets, Missiles'', pp. 154-155; Engel, pp. 273275;Irene Sänger-Bredt and Rolf Engel, “The Development of Regeneratively-Cooled Liquid Rocket Engines in Austria and Germany, ... , copy in “Helmut Zoike” file, NASM; “Zur Lage,” VfR, ''Mitteilungen'', March 1931, p. 1; “Bilanz 1930,” VfR, ''Mitteilungen'', March 1931, p. 3; “Veränderungen,” VfR, ''Mitteilungen'', March 1931, ...

... liquid-fuel rocket engines and had concluded hydrogen and oxygen high-performance-engine demonstration program. Work on XLR-129 reusable rocket engine had provided basis for shuttle's reusable high-pressure-rocket concept. ... to general medical science and practice. Symposium reviewed results of Soyuz 11 - Salyut 1 mission, June 6-30, that ended with crew's accidental death on reentry. ''( ...

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