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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The 31th IAA History Symposium was held in 1997 in Turin, Italy, during the 48th International Astronautical Congress. This Symposium contains three sessions with a total of 25 papers presented.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword.
-Preface.
-A Tribute to Bill Hilton.
-PART I. The Pioneers of the Space Age.
-Chapter 1. Tsiolkovsky’s “Album of Space Voyages:” Visions of a Space Theorist Turned Film Consultant, Ben Finney, Vladimir Lytkin and Liudmila Alepko.
-Chapter 2. Konstantin Tsiolkovski and the Origin of the Space Elevator,
Jerome Pearson.
-Chapter 3. Wernher von Braun’s Doctoral Thesis: A Scientific Basis for the Type ‘A’ Rocket (Aggregate) Program Florin Zãgãnescu and George Popa.
-Chapter 4. Viacheslav Kovtunenko: His Life and His Place in the History of Astronautics, Vladimir Prisniakov, Evgeni Abramovsky and Sergei Kavelin.
-Chapter 5. Le Prieur and the First Air Launched Rockets, Hervé Moulin and Philippe Jung.
-PART II. Rocketry and Astronautics: Program Overviews.
-Chapter 6. Rocketdyne—A Giant Pioneer in Rocket Technology: The Earliest Years, 1945-1955, Frank H. Winter.
-Chapter 7. Dusting Off the Roots of Consistency: British Space Policy 1957-1959, Douglas Millard.
-Chapter 8. Birth of the Sun-Synchronous Satellite, R. Genty and G. Pignolet.
-Chapter 9. Japanese Liquid Rockets in World War II, Yasunori Matogawa.
-Chapter 10. Soviet Work on Ramjets From 1929 Until Now, Christian Lardier.
-Chapter 11. Fire in the Sky: U.S. Space Laser Development From 1968, Lt. Col. John R. London III and Dr. H. Alan Pike.
-Chapter 12. 50 Years of Rocket Propulsion in Vernon, Christophe Rothmund.
-PART III. Developments During The Space Age.
-Chapter 13. Mitchell R. Sharpe, Jr. Aerospace Historian, Konrad K. Dannenberg and Donald Tarter.
-Chapter 14. The Contribution of Ju. V. Kondratjuk to the Foundation of the
Theory of Space Flight, B. V. Rauschenbach and V. N. Sokolsky.
-Chapter 15. Korolev’s “Circus Act:” Voskhod, James Harford.
-Chapter 16. TM-3: A Joint Soviet-Syrian Space Mission, M. A. Fares and G. Edelby.
-Chapter 17. Sputnik Technology—40 Years Ago, Vladimir Syromiatnikov and Guy Pignolet.
-Chapter 18. 1947-1997, Rocket Mail and High Priority Cargo Delivery by Rocket: 50 Years of Research by the Rocket Research Institute— Part I, George S. James.
-Chapter 19. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center: A Dream Realized, Thad Mauldin.
-Chapter 20. The X 422: The First Cruise Missile in History, Philippe Jung.
-Chapter 21. Doctrine and Dyna-Soar: Origins of USAF Manned Military Spacecraft, R. F. Houchin.
-Chapter 22. The History and Formation of Kapustin Yar, the First Soviet Cosmodrome, D. V. Shatalov.
-Chapter 23. The U.S. Navy’s HYDRA Project, and Other Floating-Launch
Programs, John E. Draim.
-Chapter 24. 80 Years of the Khrunichev Space Center—From Cars to
Space Vehicles, Anatoly I. Kiselev, Alexander A. Medvedev, Vladimir K. Karrask and Oleg A. Sokolov.
-Chapter 25. Organization and Initial Period of Activity of the Enterprise to
Develop Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines in the Russian Federation, V. F. Rakhmanin and V. S. Sudakov.
-Index.