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Rocketing Into the Future [electronic resource] : The History and Technology of Rocket Planes / by Michel van Pelt.

By: van Pelt, Michel [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Springer Praxis Books: Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: XVIII, 366 p. 162 illus., 60 illus. in color. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781461432005.Subject(s): Engineering | Astrophysics | Astronomy | Astronautics | Engineering | Aerospace Technology and Astronautics | Popular Science in Astronomy | Extraterrestrial Physics, Space SciencesDDC classification: 629.1 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Illustrations -- Author's preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A crash course in rocket plane design -- Chapter 3: Germany's wonder weapons -- Chapter 4: Non-German wartime rocket fighters -- Chapter 5: The rise and fall of the rocket interceptor -- Chapter 6: Breaking the barrier -- Chapter 7: Rocket plane spaceflight -- Chapter 8: Future spaceplanes -- Chapter 9: Joyriding a rocket plane -- Chapter 10: Man versus robot -- Chapter 11: Conclusions -- Appendix: Aircraft maximum velocity and altitude evolution -- Bibliography -- Index.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Rocketing into the Future journeys into the exciting world of rocket planes, examining the exotic concepts and actual flying vehicles that have been devised over the last one hundred years. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 photographs, it recounts the history of rocket planes from the early pioneers who attached simple rockets on to their wooden glider airplanes to the modern world of high-tech research vehicles. The book then looks at the possibilities for the future. The technological and economic challenges of the Space Shuttle proved insurmountable, and thus the program was unable to fulfill its promise of low-cost access to space. However, the burgeoning market of suborbital space tourism may yet give the necessary boost to the development of a truly reusable spaceplane.
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Illustrations -- Author's preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A crash course in rocket plane design -- Chapter 3: Germany's wonder weapons -- Chapter 4: Non-German wartime rocket fighters -- Chapter 5: The rise and fall of the rocket interceptor -- Chapter 6: Breaking the barrier -- Chapter 7: Rocket plane spaceflight -- Chapter 8: Future spaceplanes -- Chapter 9: Joyriding a rocket plane -- Chapter 10: Man versus robot -- Chapter 11: Conclusions -- Appendix: Aircraft maximum velocity and altitude evolution -- Bibliography -- Index.

Rocketing into the Future journeys into the exciting world of rocket planes, examining the exotic concepts and actual flying vehicles that have been devised over the last one hundred years. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 photographs, it recounts the history of rocket planes from the early pioneers who attached simple rockets on to their wooden glider airplanes to the modern world of high-tech research vehicles. The book then looks at the possibilities for the future. The technological and economic challenges of the Space Shuttle proved insurmountable, and thus the program was unable to fulfill its promise of low-cost access to space. However, the burgeoning market of suborbital space tourism may yet give the necessary boost to the development of a truly reusable spaceplane.

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