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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The 30th IAA History Symposium was held in 1996 in Beijing, China, during the 47th International Astronautical Congress. This Symposium contains three sessions with a total of twenty papers presented.

(Extracted from the Foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.
-Preface.
-PART I. Rocketry and Astronautics: Pioneering Work
-Chapter 1. The ‘Trip to the Moon’ and Other Early Spaceflight Simulation Shows ca. 1901-1915: Part 2, Frank H. Winter.
-Chapter 2. The Legacy of the Oberth Rocket of 1935, Karlheinz Rohrwild.
-Chapter 3. K. E. Tsiolkovsky and His Contribution to Space Life Sciences, O. G. Gazenko.
-Chapter 4. A Study of the History of Rocketry and Astronautics in the International Academy of Astronautics, V. N. Sokolsky, F. C. Durant III, F. I. Ordway III.
-PART II. Rocketry and Astronautics: Unmanned Applications.
-Chapter 5. ARIANE: the Story of a Successful Cooperation, Jacques Villain.
-Chapter 6. Redstone’s First Flight—Success or Failure?, Julius H. Braun.
-Chapter 7. The RAE-Vickers Rocket Powered Transonic Aircraft Model, 1945 to 1948, John Becklake.
-Chapter 8. The Historical Progress and Development of Space Technology and Education in China, Chen Shilu, Yan Hui, Cai Yuanli and Zhu Xiaoping.
-Chapter 9. Japanese Solid Rockets in World War II, Yasunori Matogawa.
-Chapter 10. The History of the Beginning of the Russian Plesetsk Cosmodrome, D. V. Shatalov.
-Chapter 11. The Development of Solid Rocket Motors in China, Huang Jianding and Ye Dingyou.
-Chapter 12. SNCASE Cannes Rockets of the 1950s, Philippe Jung.
-Chapter 13. German Rockets in Africa: The Explosive Heritage of Peenemünde, Theo Pirard.
-Chapter 14. The D1 French Satellite Program, Hervé Moulin.
-Chapter 15. The Rocket Flight Stability Problem: A History of Misconceptions, Boris V. Rauschenbach.
-PART III. Manned Projects.
-Chapter 16. Realized and Non Realized Projects of the Soviet Manned Lunar Program, Oleg A. Sokolov.
-Chapter 17. The Apollo Fire and Investigation: Facts Not Considered, Shirley Thomas.
-Chapter 18. The Flight That Never Happened: The Story of the First Women’s Cosmonaut Team, Valentina Ponomareva and Debra D. Facktor.
-Chapter 19. Soviet Space Designers When They Were Secrets, Christian Lardier.
-Chapter 20. "Man’s Now Going to Go to the Moon": Professor Frank Cotton and Australia’s Contribution to the Origins of the Partial Pressure Suit, Kerrie Dougherty.
-Index.