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Author Petty, Chris (Christopher J.), author.

Title Beyond blue skies : the rocket plane programs that led to the Space Age / Chris Petty ; foreword by Dennis R. Jenkins
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 380 pages) : illustrations
Series Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight
Outward odyssey.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations and Definitions -- Part 1 -- 1. A New Breed of Aircraft -- 2. Like a Speeding Bullet -- 3. A New Pretender -- 4. The Race to Mach 2 -- 5. Facing the Heat -- 6. The End of the Beginning -- Part 2 -- 7. The Hypersonic Challenge -- 8. Higher and Faster -- 9. The Follow-On -- 10. Failure to Launch -- Part 3 -- 11. Look Ma, No Wings! -- 12. The Heavyweights -- 13. Racehorses and Unrealized Plans -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-345) and index
Subject Space vehicles -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Rocket planes -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Research aircraft -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Space vehicles -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Research aircraft
Rocket planes
Space vehicles
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496223555
1496223551
9781496223531
1496223535