Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology{BBS} torrent

This volume provides a concise, clear history of rockets and missiles from ancient times to the present... Van Riper does an exemplary job in lifting out the critical points from a mass of potentially intimidating detail, and explaining these in terms that lay persons can grasp... In sum, this book recommends itself as a lucid history of missile technology for the general reader.

Introduces readers to the history of rocket and missile technology and its impact on society.


# Hardcover: 200 pages
# Publisher: Greenwood (October 30, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0313327955
# ISBN-13: 978-0313327957