Science with a Vengeance: How the Military Created the Us Space Sciences After World War II by David H. DeVorkin

Science with a Vengeance: How the Military Created the Us Space Sciences After World War II

David H. DeVorkin

404 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

mysterious tense medium-paced

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The exploration of the upper atmosphere was given a jump start in the United States by German V-2 rockets - Hitler's "vengeance weapon" - captured at the end of World War II. The science performed with these missiles was largely determined by the ...

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