Two hundred years of flight in America : a Bicentennial survey / Eugene M. Emme, editor ; participants, Michael Collins ... [et al.].

Contributor Emme, Eugene Morlock.

Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Univelt, c1977.

Descriptionxvi, 310 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.

Note:Proceedings of a symposium held at the National Air and Space Museum Nov. 4, 1976.

Note:"A supplement to Advances in the astronautical sciences."

Note:INTRODUCTION: Perspectives of flight in America / Eugene M. Emme -- PART ONE: AEROSTATICS: Ballooning, 1783-1976 / Roger Pineau -- The airship, 1904-1976 / Richard K. Smith -- PART TWO: AERONAUTICS: General aviation, 1919-1976 / Tom D. Crouch -- Military aviation, 1908-1976 / Robert L. Perry -- Commercial aviation, 1919-1976 / Richard P. Hallion -- PART THREE: ASTRONAUTICS: Instrumented utilization of space / R. Cargill Hall -- Manned space flight / Edward C. Ezell -- PART FOUR: COMMENTARY: Perspectives of a historian of technology / Thomas Parke Hughes -- APPENDICES: A. U.S. space science missions -- B. U.S. applications satellites -- C. U.S. manned space flights.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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