To Reach the High Frontier: a History of U.S. Launch Vehicles.(Book Review)
Publication Date: 22-MAR-04
Publication Title: Air Power History
Format: Online
Author: Crosby, David F.

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To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles. Edited by Roger D. Launius and Dennis R. Jenkins. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2002. Tables. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Index. Pp. 519. $49.95 ISBN: 0-81312245-7

This book's co-editors have compiled a series of historical essays written by specialists in the major rockets used to launch nuclear warheads, satellites, and space vehicles. The co-editors are experts in their own right. Roger Launius is chairman of the National Air and Space Museum's Space History Department and has written sever...



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