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099    eBook Boundless 
100 1  Teitel, Amy Shira,|eauthor. 
245 10 Breaking the chains of gravity :|bthe story of spaceflight
       before NASA /|cAmy Shira Teitel.|h[Boundless electronic 
       resource] 
264  1 New York, NY, USA :|bBloomsbury Sigma,|c2016. 
300    1 online resource (304 pages) :|billustrations (some 
       color) 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-296) and 
       index. 
505 0  Hobby rocketeers -- The rocket loophole -- The turning 
       tide of war -- Escape and surrender -- Nazi rockets in New
       Mexico -- Rockets meet airplanes -- A new war, a new 
       missile, and a new leader -- Higher and faster -- Edging 
       into hypersonics -- The floating astronaut -- Space 
       becomes an option -- The first satellite race -- Little 
       Ball's big impact -- The fight to control space -- 
       Epilogue : America finds its footing in space -- Glossary 
       of people -- Glossary of places and organizations. 
520    NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically 
       peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the 
       Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in
       a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, 
       drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet 
       world had to offer. In the 1930s, rockets were all the 
       rage in Germany, the focus both of scientists hoping to 
       fly into space and of the German armed forces, looking to 
       circumvent the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. 
       One of the key figures in this period was Wernher von 
       Braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became 
       the devastating V-2. As the war came to its chaotic 
       conclusion, von Braun escaped from the ruins of Nazi 
       Germany, and was taken to America where he began 
       developing missiles for the US Army. Meanwhile, the US Air
       Force was looking ahead to a time when men would fly in 
       space, and test pilots like Neil Armstrong were flying 
       cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper 
       atmosphere. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story
       of America's nascent space program, its scientific 
       advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused 
       between the various arms of the US military. At this point
       getting a man in space became a national imperative, 
       leading to the creation of the National Aeronautics and 
       Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA. 
520    Looks at the early history of western space flight up to 
       the establishment of NASA by Dwight D. Eisenhower, 
       covering the decades of research in rocketry, aeronautics,
       and human tolerances that laid the groundwork for the 
       advances that succeeded it. 
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588    Description based on print version record. 
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610 10 United States.|bNational Aeronautics and Space 
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650  0 Aeronautics|xResearch|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Astronautics|xResearch|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Aeronautics and state|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Aeronautics and state|zGermany|xHistory. 
650  0 Space race. 
650  0 Rocketry|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Rockets (Aeronautics)|xHistory. 
650  7 Rocketry.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01099327 
650  7 Rockets (Aeronautics)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01099341 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  4 Electronic books. 
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776 08 |iElectronic reproduction of (manifestation):|aTeitel, Amy
       Shira.|tBreaking the chains of gravity|dNew York, NY, USA 
       : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2016|z9781472911179|w(DLC)  2015046643
       |w(OCoLC)927101899 
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