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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The 32th IAA History Symposium was held in 1998 in Melbourne, Australia, during the 49th International Astronautical Congress. This Symposium contains three sessions with a total of 18 papers presented.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.
-Preface.
-PART I.
-Memoirs.
-Chapter 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Vision Versus Reality at 30, Frederick I. Ordway III.
-Chapter 2. French Space Biological Experiments With Animals Before 1968, Claude-Alexandre Timsit, Gérard Chatelier and Hervé Moulin.
-Chapter 3. 25 Years of Space at Surrey: Pioneering Modern Microsatellites, M. N. Sweeting.
-Chapter 4. The Contribution of Fridrikh Tsander: A Memoir, Marsha Freeman.
-Chapter 5. Australia in Space: Then and Now, Jos Heyman.
PART II.
-Organizational Histories.
-Chapter 6. The Australian Rocket Societies: Rocketry Pioneers or Rocket Mail Sideshows?, Kerrie Dougherty.
-Chapter 7. An Overview of French Astronautical Activities in the 1930s, Christophe Rothmund.
-Chapter 8. The Conquest of the Moon 1958-1969: The Race Between the Soviet Union and the United States of America, Jacques Villain.
-Chapter 9. Forty Years of NASA – Australian Cooperation, Miriam Baltuck, Dennis Cooper, Peter Holland and Graham Harris.
-Chapter 10. Conservation of the German WWII Rocket Collection at the Aerospace Museum, Cosford, England, A. McLean, C. Davies, S. Fairbrass, J. Becklake and A. Hall Patch.
-Chapter 11. RAND and North American Aviation’s Aerophysics Laboratory: An Early Interaction in Missiles and Space, Bruno W. Augenstein.
-Chapter 12. French-U.S. Space Research Cooperation in the Early 1960s, Hervé Moulin.
-Chapter 13. Festival Rockets in Thailand, Laos, Japan, and China: A Case Study of Early Technology Transfer – Part 1, Frank H. Winter and Akira Kubozono.
-PART III.
-Scientific and Technical Reviews.
-Chapter 14. OHKA: Japanese World War II Rocket-Propelled Attack Glider, Yasunori Matogawa.
-Chapter 15. VE 111 Topaze: The First French Inertial Rocket, Philippe Jung.
-Chapter 16. A Technical Re-Appraisal of Black Arrow, Christopher Mark Hempsell and Alan Bond.
-Chapter 17. The Ranger Project, Otfrid G. Liepack.
-Chapter 18. Solid Propellant Rockets in the Soviet Union, Christian Lardier.
-Index.