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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

In this volume, the American Astronautical Society's history series presents 35 papers delivered at the 28th and 29th History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, held in Jerusalem in 1994 and in Oslo in 1995. These took place as part of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Congresses meeting at those times and places.

(Extracted from the Preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.

-Contents.

-Preface.

-Part I. Rocketry and Astronautics: Pioneering Work.

-1. Evolution and Accomplishments of the Supervision of Youth Research Experiments Subcommittee of the IAF Education Commmittee.
-2. Launching Europe Into Space: The Origins of the Ariane Rocket.
-3. A-1: The First French Satellite.
-4. Etude 4212: The First French Large Liquid Rocket Project.
-5. The Delta Project: Early LOX/Kerosene Engines in the United Kingdom.
-6. Albert Püllenberg and the GEFRA: A Memoir.
-7. "Pencil" Rocket and Hideo Itokawa: Pioneering Work of Japanese Rocketry.
-8. The "Trip to the Moon" and Other Early Spaceflight Simulation Shows, ca. 1901-1915.
-9. Kraff Ehricke's Extraterrestrial Imperative: A Memoir.
-10. The SE 1500: Preliminary French Missile Tests.
-11. The Personality of the Rocket Pioneer Professor Hermann Oberth.
-12. The Excluded: Hermann Oberth and Rudolf Nebel in Third Reich.
-13. Biographical Memoir - Dr. Homer Joseph Stewart: Recollections from 1934-1980.
-14. The History of Rocket-Space Techniques Development in the Ukraine.

-Part II. Rocketry and Astronautics: Applications.

-15. Main Fileds of the Current Studies on the History of Astronautics and Rocketry.
-16. The Grand Central Rocket Company.
-17. Apollo at 25.
-18. Dniepropetrovsk Space Rocket Complex in the 1970s and 1980s.
-19. The San Marco Project.
-20. Another Destiny of Rocketry in Japan: Festival Rockets in Japanese Shrines.
-21. The First Manned Lunar Landing Spacecraft.
-22. From SEPR to SEP, 1944-1994.
-23. About the Development of the Means of Putting Payloads into Low-Earth Orbit. 

-Part III. Cold War Projects.

-24. Evolution of the Soviet Space Industry.
-25. The History of the Foundation of the Soviet Cosmodrome Baikonur.
-26. What the Russians Learned From German V-2 Technology.
-27. The SE 4500 Nuclear Missile.
-28. The History of Space Launch Vehicle Development.
-29. The Race to the Moon: A Look Back From Baikonur.
-30. M.K. Yangel: The Unknown Pages of Biography.
-31. The US and Soviet Space Systems Developments as Driven by the Cold War Competition.
-32. The Evolution of the Institutional Structure of the United States Military Space Program: The History of the National Reconnaissance Office.
-33. Roles and Impacts of RAND in the pre-Apollo Space Program of the United States.
-34. The Soviet Program of Moon Surface Research (1966-1976).
-35. A Brief History of Baikonur.

-Index.

-Numerical Index.
-Author Index.