Milestones of flight : from hot-air balloons to SpaceShipOne
Grove, Tim2016
Books, Manuscripts
This book is being published in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The museum will celebrate its 40th anniversary in July 2016. There will be a new Smithsonian exhibition, to be called Milestones of Flight. This book is NOT a catalogue of the exhibition; rather, it is a history of flight told through approximately twenty-five historical milestones.
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Imprint:
New York Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016.copyright2016.
Collation:
vii, 103 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Notes:
At head of title: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Interest age level: 10-14.
Contents:
Ballooning -- Wright Flyer -- Curtiss JN-4, the "Jenny" -- Douglas World Cruiser -- Goddard rocket -- Spirit of St. Louis -- Full scale wind tunnel -- Douglas DC-3 -- UAVs -- Bell XP-59A Aeracomet -- Whittle and Jumo 004B engines -- Bell X-1, Glamorous Glennis -- Boeing 367-80, "Dash 80" -- Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1 -- North American X-15 -- Discoverer/Corona -- Telstar -- Mercury Friendship 7 -- Mariner 2 -- Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird -- Gemini IV -- Imagination and the Star Trek Starship Enterprise -- Lunar Module -- Touchable moon rock -- Pioneer 10/11 -- Viking Lander -- Space Shuttle Discovery -- Hubble Space Telescope -- SpaceShipOne -- Epilogue.
ISBN:
9781419720031
Dewey class:
J 629.109629.109
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
16872
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