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Sputnik   Explorer   Vanguard   Astronautics   Missile defense   Baikonur Tyuratam   Saryshagan   Rocket equation   Rocket espionage   U-2   Neil Armstrong   USC

Various events, documents, and publications

(and a few unrelated) to history of

space, spacecraft, and rocketry

The Road to Space: The First Thousand Years (video)

Sputnik 1

Explorer 1

Vanguard 1

Astronautics Symposium, February 1957 (The first Astronautics Symposium - sponsored by AFOSR – in the United States)

Bernard A. Schriever, "ICBM - a Step Toward Space Conquest," speech at the Astronautics Symposium, San Diego, California, February 1957

The New York Times trashes Robert H. Goddard in 1920 and then (sort of) regrets in ... 1969

Tyuratam Missile Test Range (Baikonur Cosmodrome)

Baikonur Cosmodrome. (Tyuratam Missile Test Range)

Missile defense  –  first nonnuclear intercept of a ballistic missile warhead by a missile in 1961 at Saryshagan. Missile defense. Saryshagan test range.

Soviet laser space battle station Polyus

Missile defense publications

Astronautics

Elite Space Club

German and Soviet Rocketeers

Dong Feng - Chinese Ballistic Missiles

Satellite Launch by North Korea in 2012

Access to space

TRW and The Aerospace Corporation

International cooperation in space

Military space

National Anthem and Rocketry

Robert Esnault-Pelterie and Astronautics

United States National Space Policy, 2006

United States National Space Policy, 2010

United States National Space Policy, 2020

Fear and common sense

Human vs. robotic spaceflight

Science illiteracy of intellectuals

Cost of Communism and rocketeers

Dupes and fellow-travelers dress up communist fronts - Life magazine, 1949

Winston Churchill: The Sinews of Peace (Iron Curtain) speech, 1946

The 1776 Report

The Sharon Statement, 1960

Appeasement - Munich Agreement. Editorial in the Nature magazine in 1938

Freedom is not free

Sputnik   Explorer   Vanguard   Astronautics   Missile defense   Baikonur Tyuratam   Saryshagan   Rocket equation   Rocket espionage   U-2   Neil Armstrong   USC

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160+ problems with detailed solutions Fundamentals of Space Missions Magnitudes of stars and satellites. The solar system. Coordinate systems and time. Plane and solid angles. Space environment and spacecraft interactions. Satellite atmospheric drag. Solar radiation pressure. Gravitational field. The Earth. Basics of orbital mechanics. Orbital elements, transfers, and maneuvers. Orbit evolution and common orbits. Space mission geometry.

Fundamentals of Space Missions – 3-page info (pdf) – list of problems