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Rocket on cover of Other Worlds sci-fi magazine, September 1951 Space travel , [ 1 ] : 69 [ 2 ] : 209–210 [ 3 ] : 511–512 or space flight [ 2 ] : 200–201 [ 4 ] (less often, starfaring or star voyaging [ 2 ] : 217, 220 ) is a science fiction theme that has captivated the public and is almost archetypal for science fiction. [ 4 ]
Principles of Guided Missile Design is a textbook and reference book written by E. Arthur Bonney, Maurice J. Zucrow, and Carl W. Besserer in 1956. The book is a glossary of rocket and space flight terms, an introduction to rocket design, parametric studies and student instruction. The book is written in English and was published by Van Nostrand ...
Oberth's Model B design for a two-stage rocket. In 1923, Oberth's book The Rocket to the Planetary Spaces was published. [11] This publication is generally regarded as a kind of initial spark for rocket and space travel enthusiasm in Germany. Many later rocket engineers were inspired by his precise and comprehensive theoretical considerations ...
A rocket design can be as simple as a cardboard tube filled with black powder, but to make an efficient, accurate rocket or missile involves overcoming a number of difficult problems. The main difficulties include cooling the combustion chamber, pumping the fuel (in the case of a liquid fuel), and controlling and correcting the direction of motion.
The design space constraints of SSTO vehicles were described by rocket design engineer Robert Truax: Using similar technologies (i.e., the same propellants and structural fraction), a two-stage-to-orbit vehicle will always have a better payload-to-weight ratio than a single stage designed for the same mission, in most cases, a very much better ...
After White Sands, Stine was employed at several other aerospace companies, finally ending up at Martin working on the Titan project. This job was short-lived: he was abruptly fired in 1957 when United Press called him for a reaction to the launch of Sputnik 1, and he repeated to them a passage from his just-published book Earth Satellites and the Race for Space Superiority, in which he wrote ...
A payload or second stage would have fit atop the core stage, and two detachable Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters would have been mounted on the sides of the core stage as on the Shuttle. Period illustrations suggest that much larger rockets than NLS-1 were contemplated, using multiples of the NLS-1 core stage. [4]
The X-3 [14] Volksrocket (other names: Arriba One, Skycycle X-3) was a reusable space tourism rocket planned by Robert Truax after Evel Knievel provided a $1,000 research grant [14] for a pilot study. Truax was looking for volunteers with enough money to help fund the effort and who wished to fly aboard his rocket.