Title Single stage to orbit : politics, space technology, and the quest for reusable rocketry / Andrew J. Butrica

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) : illustrations Series New series in NASA history New series in NASA history. Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I / The Conservative Agenda for Space -- 1 The Reagan Revolution -- 2 Commerce on the High Frontier -- 3 Space Warriors -- Part II / The Quest -- 4 X-30: The Cold War SSTO -- 5 Space Visionaries -- Part III / The Space Ship eXperimental -- 6 Launching the SSX -- 7 The SDIO SSTO Program -- Part IV / Spaceship Wars -- 8 W(h)ither SSTO? -- 9 The Disorder of Things -- 10 The Clipper Graham -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Kelly�s Rules -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-259) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. SUBJECT United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration fast Subject Aerospace planes -- Research -- United States Reusable space vehicles -- Research -- United States Aerodynamics, Hypersonic -- Research -- Political aspects -- United States Research aircraft -- United States TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Aeronautics & Astronautics. Research aircraft United States Form Electronic book ISBN 080188134X 9780801881343 080187338X 9780801873386

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