(Space Exploration) Five publications by or about the fathers of American and Russian space flight Date Published: 1932-1935 Description: 5 items. Comprising: Goddard, R.H. “Rocket Plane for the Upper Air/A New Turbine Rocket Plane for the Upper Atmosphere”. Scientific American, March 1932, pp. 148-149. Illustrated. Original wrappers. Korolev, Sergei. "Raketa Na Voinye” [Rocket for War]. Tekhnika Molodyezhi [Technical Youth journal, Organ of the Young Communist League], Moscow, May 1935; pp. 56-59. Illustrated. Original wrappers (wear. tear and dampstaining). [Goddard, Robert]. “The Limit of Rapid Transit”. Scientific American, November 20, 1909, pg. 366. Complete issue, removed from larger volume. Romanov. Spacecraft Designer; The Story of Sergei Korolev. Moscow: 1976. 119 pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. Harford, James. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon. New York: 1997. Original cloth and dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed by author on title page Goddard was the physicist now considered the American father of space travel, at first derided for his revolutionary hypothesis of flying to the moon by rocket ship. Korolev, the brilliant Soviet rocket scientist, was the principal Russian spacecraft designer during the US-USSR space race, instrumental in the launch of Sputnik and Gagarin’s mission as the first human in space. When he wrote this article on military rocketry, Korolev was the unknown chief engineer at the Soviet’s Jet Propulsion Research Institute. Arrested and imprisoned for years in a forced labor camp, he was rehabilitated for his technological expertise during World War II and postwar became Chief Designer of the first Soviet intercontinental Ballistic Missile that launched the Sputnik satellite, his identity being a closely guarded military secret until his death in 1966. “The Limit of Rapid Transit” was an editorial based on Goddard’s essay submitted to the journal as an undergraduate at Worcester Polytechnic. It was his fifth periodical publication though published anonymously and advocated a supersonic rail system for the East Coast with a calculation of maximum railway speed foreshadowing Goddard’s rocketry calculations of the future. Condition: Varies from fair to very good. Item#: 347168 Headline: Early work by two space pioneers
(Space Exploration) Five publications by or about the fathers of American and Russian space flight Date Published: 1932-1935 Description: 5 items. Comprising: Goddard, R.H. “Rocket Plane for the Upper Air/A New Turbine Rocket Plane for the Upper Atmosphere”. Scientific American, March 1932, pp. 148-149. Illustrated. Original wrappers. Korolev, Sergei. "Raketa Na Voinye” [Rocket for War]. Tekhnika Molodyezhi [Technical Youth journal, Organ of the Young Communist League], Moscow, May 1935; pp. 56-59. Illustrated. Original wrappers (wear. tear and dampstaining). [Goddard, Robert]. “The Limit of Rapid Transit”. Scientific American, November 20, 1909, pg. 366. Complete issue, removed from larger volume. Romanov. Spacecraft Designer; The Story of Sergei Korolev. Moscow: 1976. 119 pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. Harford, James. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon. New York: 1997. Original cloth and dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed by author on title page Goddard was the physicist now considered the American father of space travel, at first derided for his revolutionary hypothesis of flying to the moon by rocket ship. Korolev, the brilliant Soviet rocket scientist, was the principal Russian spacecraft designer during the US-USSR space race, instrumental in the launch of Sputnik and Gagarin’s mission as the first human in space. When he wrote this article on military rocketry, Korolev was the unknown chief engineer at the Soviet’s Jet Propulsion Research Institute. Arrested and imprisoned for years in a forced labor camp, he was rehabilitated for his technological expertise during World War II and postwar became Chief Designer of the first Soviet intercontinental Ballistic Missile that launched the Sputnik satellite, his identity being a closely guarded military secret until his death in 1966. “The Limit of Rapid Transit” was an editorial based on Goddard’s essay submitted to the journal as an undergraduate at Worcester Polytechnic. It was his fifth periodical publication though published anonymously and advocated a supersonic rail system for the East Coast with a calculation of maximum railway speed foreshadowing Goddard’s rocketry calculations of the future. Condition: Varies from fair to very good. Item#: 347168 Headline: Early work by two space pioneers
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