Isbn: 9780764332517 - the rockets and missiles of white sands proving ground: 1945-1958 (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 160 pages, over 200 bw images. BIC Classification: JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 294 x 226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1150. . 2009. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. private library liquidation, Mylar on cover. new unread.

Rayon : Militaria Editeur : Schiffer Date de parution : 2009 Description : In-4, 168 pages, relié cartonné, occasion, très bon état. IMPORTANT : Pour les envois internationaux, merci de vous renseigner avant de passer commande. Les envois se font uniquement en point relais MONDIAL RELAY ou INPOST pour les pays suivants : Belgique, Espagne, Italie, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas, Pologne, et Portugal. Merci de nous indiquer en retour le point relais choisi ainsi que votre numéro de téléphone mobile pour assurer le suivi du colis. ATTENTION : Les expéditions nationales de plus de 2 kilos et les expéditions internationales de plus de 1 kilo se voient appliquer un supplément de port. Envois quotidiens du mardi au samedi. Les livres sont envoyés sous enveloppe bulles. Les frais de ports comprennent les frais d'affranchissements et d'emballage. Librairie Le Piano-Livre. Merci. Référence catalogue vendeur: X15068.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. n edition. 160 pages. 11.10x8.70x0.90 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25. 168 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Appendix 1-3. Map. Tabular Data. Technical Specifications. Bibliography. Index. The format is primarily in two-column format. The author wrote: Welcome to my author page. To give you a little background about me -- I am one of those seemingly rare individuals who was actually born in Washington, D.C. One of the great things about growing up in DC was the Smithsonian Institution. As a teenager, I used to hang out there whenever I had off from school. This led to my first job in the museum field, at the National Air and Space Museum. After 14 years there (with a three year break to serve in the US Army) I headed west to New Mexico. At the Air and Space Museum, I was Associate Curator for Manned Space Flight -- in New Mexico, I became Executive Director of the International Space Hall of Fame. I've managed other museums in Texas, Kansas and Pennsylvania, all of them related to aviation and space flight. I developed a deep appreciation for the achievements and sacrifices made by the early pioneers of space flight. I left the museum field (after 37 years). Today, I work at The National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center in Southampton, PA. My other interests include writing. In 1945, the United States Army established a testing center for rockets and guided missiles in south-central New Mexico. Named White Sands Proving Ground, this center was the locale for many of America's first steps towards space. Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground chronicles major activities at the base from 1945-1958. During this period, the Army, Navy, and Air Force all tested missiles at the desert installation. This book details the development and testing for such missiles as Hermes, Corporal, Nike Ajax, Sergeant, Honest John, and Viking. These missiles formed the backbone of much of America's arsenal during the Cold War and represented major technological advancements. In 1958, the White Sands Proving Ground became the White Sands Missile Range, as it is known today. White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio. It then became the White Sands Proving Ground on 9 July 1945. White Sands National Park founded in the 1930s is located within the range. Significant Events: The missile range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. On 16 July 1945, the first atomic bomb (code named Trinity) was test detonated at Trinity Site near the northern boundary of the range, seven days after the White Sands Proving Ground was officially established near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio. After the conclusion of World War II, 100 long-range German V-2 rockets that were captured by U.S. military troops were brought to WSMR. Of these, 67 were test-fired between 1946 and 1951 from the White Sands V-2 Launching Site. (This was followed by the testing of American rockets, which continues to this day, along with testing other technologies.) On 15 May, 1947, a V-2 rocket fired from WSMR veered off course and landed 4 miles northeast of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Exactly two weeks later, on May 29, 1947, a modified V-2 sounding rocket veered off course and crashed on top of a rocky knoll about 3.5 miles south of the Juárez business district, leaving a 24 feet deep by 50 feet wide crater. On 11 July 1970, the United States Air Force launched an Athena sounding rocket, equipped with re-entry vehicle V-123-D, from the Green River Launch Complex in Utah. While its intended target was inside of WSMR, the rocket instead flew south and impacted 180200 miles south of the Mexican border in the Mapimi Desert in the northeastern corner of the Mexican state of Durango. On 30 March 1982 NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia landed on the Northrop Strip at WSMR as the conclusion to mission STS-3. This was the only time that NASA used WSMR as a landing site for the space shuttle.…