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The Pre- Astronauts: Manual Ballooning on Threshold of Space

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: . 12696 Publication details: 1995 England, Naval Institute PressSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 629.13 RYA
Summary: The Pre- Astronauts: Manual Ballooning on Threshold of Space This book examines the dramatic achievements of the postwar manned balloon programs and the remarkable individuals who made them possible, and it argues for their rightful inclusion in the broad history of space exploration and astronautics. The stratospheric balloon programs supplied many of the systems and processes that would later be adopted by NASA. Some of these inheritances were acknowledged, others were not.
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Book National Defence College (NDC) Library 600 TL618 .R95 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3664/02

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The Pre- Astronauts: Manual Ballooning on Threshold of Space This book examines the dramatic achievements of the postwar manned balloon programs and the remarkable individuals who made them possible, and it argues for their rightful inclusion in the broad history of space exploration and astronautics. The stratospheric balloon programs supplied many of the systems and processes that would later be adopted by NASA. Some of these inheritances were acknowledged, others were not.

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