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The Missile and Space Race

Alan Levine

出版	Bloomsbury Academic, 1994-07-30
主題	History / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN	02759445149780275944513
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iTzbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Here is a history of the development of military missiles and space travel from World War II to the American visits to the Moon in 1969-1972. It stresses the relationship between the early stages of space exploration and the arms race, and that a dual path led to space flight. One was the development of unmanned long-range war rockets, the other, less often noted, was the rocket-powered research plane. The first path led through the intercontinental ballistic missile to the first artificial satellites and space capsule; the latter, more uniquely American, through the X-series and Skyrocket rocket planes to the X-15, and ultimately to the Space Shuttle. The early part of the book focuses on the Soviet-American race to develop the ICBM in the 1950s, and the first satellites, with particular attention paid to the events and reactions that followed the flight of Sputnik I in 1957 and the subsequent missile gap era.