Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space, 1915-1960, 1961

Document Type: Book (Historical Study).

Purpose: Informational.

Authority: Author Expertise.

Scope (From the Preface): "This volume is largely a response to repeated requests for basic historical information. It is intended to serve as a ready informational reference, one from whence more detailed historical analysis should proceed.

The scope of this chronology is defined in accordance with the following criteria:

• Emphasize scientific research and engineering development in aeronautics and astronautics as well as their related fields.

• Demonstrate historic use of aircraft, rockets, balloons, and spacecraft as tools of scientific research.

• Specialize upon U.S. efforts with inclusion of sufficient items on general historical events and foreign progress to retain an undistorted historical context.

• Illustrate practical exploitation of technological progress in aeronautics and astronautics.

• Exploit generally available source materials to insure widest and early utilization of the material compiled."

Contents (from the Table of Contents):

"- Foreword by Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator

- ABBREVIATIONS

- PREFACE

PART I: From The Founding of NACA to the Dawn of the Space Age, January 1915-October 1957

PART II: The First Three Years of the Space Age, October 1957- December 1960

APPENDICES:

A. Chronicle of Earth Satellites and Space Probes

B. Chronicle of World Airplane Records

C. Chronicle of Select Balloon Flights, 1927-60

D. Select Awards and Honors in Aeronautics and Astronautics

E. Membership of the NACA, 1915-58

- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

- SUBJECT AND NAME INDEX"