The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

532 Category Index
Propellants (Continued)
nitric acid (HNO3)
nitrogen tetroxide (N 2O4)
nuclear fuel
oxidizer
oxidizer-to-fuel ratio
propellant
propellant storage
propellant stratification
propellant utilization
reactant
RFNA (red fuming nitric acid). See nitric
acid
RP-1 (rocket propellant 1)
solid propellant
trapped propellant
UDMH ((CH3)2NHH2)
Protection and shielding for
spacecraft
Pegasus (spacecraft)
Whipple shield
Rentry physics and terminology
ablation
air breakup
ARTV (Advanced Reentry Test Vehicle)
blackout
Boost Glide Reentry Program (BGRV)
cross range
decay. See orbit decay
de-orbit burn
drogue
entry. See reentry
heat shield. See reentry thermal protection
ionized plasma sheath
overshoot boundary
PAET (Planetary Atmospheric Entry Test)
parabolic reentry
plasma sheath
reentry
Reentry (test program)
reentry corridor
Reentry Flight Demonstrator (RFD)
reentry thermal protection
reentry vehicle
reentry window
Ryusei
sweat cooling
undershoot boundary
Rocket engineers and space
scientists
Abbott, Ira Herbert (1906–)
Ames, Milton B., Jr. (1913–)
Bernal, J(ames) D(esmond) (1901–1971)
Bickerton, Alexander William
(1842–1929)
Biringuccio, Vannoccio (1480–1537)
Blagonravov, Anatoli A. (1895–1975)
Bond, Alan (1944–)
Bossart, Karel J. (1904–1975)
Buckley, Edmond C. (1904–1977)
Bull, Gerald Vincent (1928–1990)
Chelomei, Vladimir Nikolaevich
(1914–1984)
Clauser, Francis H. (1913–)
Cleator, P(hilip) E(llaby) (1908–1994)
Colombo, Giuseppe “Bepi” (1920–1984)
Congreve, William (1772–1828)
Crocco, Gaetano Arturo (1877–1968)
Damblanc, Louis (1889–1969)
De Laval, Gustav (1845–1913)
Debus, Kurt H. (1908–1983)
DeFrance, Smith J. (1896–1985)
Dornberger, Walter (1895–1980)
Draper, Charles Stark (1901–1987)
Dryden, Hugh Latimer (1898–1965)
Dunn, Louis G. (1908–1979)
Durant, Frederick Clark III (1916–)
Dyson, Freeman John (1923–)
Ehricke, Krafft Arnold (1917–1984)
Esnault-Pelterie, Robert A. C.
(1881–1957)
Faget, Maxime A. (1921–)
Feoktistov, Konstantin Petrovich (1926–)
Finger, Harold B. (1924–)
Forward, Robert L(ull) (1932–)
Ganswindt, Hermann (1856–1934)
Glushko, Valentin Petrovitch
(1908–1989)
Goddard, Robert Hutchins (1882–1945)
Haas, Conrad (c. 1509–1579)
Hale, William (1797–1870)
Hohmann, Walter (1880–1945)
Hunsaker, Jerome C. (1886–1984)
Johnson, Clarence L. “Kelly”
(1910–1990)
Kaplan, Joseph (1902–1991)
Keldysh, Msitslav Vsevolodovich
(1911–1978)
Kelly, Thomas J. (1930–2002)
Kibalchich, Nikolai Ivanovitch
(1854–1881)
Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich (1907–1966)
Kurchatov, Igor (1902–1960)
Kurzweg, Hermann H. (1908–)
Le Prieur, Yves Paul Gaston (1885–1963)
Lundin, Bruce T. (1919–)
Malina, Frank J. (1912–1981)
Maul, Alfred (1864–1941)
Mishin, Vassily (1917–)
Murray, Bruce C. (1932–)
Newell, Homer E. (1915–1983)
Noordung, Herman (1892–1929)
Oberth, Hermann Julius (1894–1989)
O’Neill, Gerard Kitchen (1927–1992)
Ordway, Frederick Ira (1927–)
Paulet, Pedro A.
Petrov, Boris N. (1913–1980)
Pierce, John R. (1910–2002)
Ramo, Simon (1913–)
Rauschenbach, Boris Viktovich
(1915–2001)
Rees, Eberhard F. M. (1908–)
Riedel, Klaus (1901–1944)
Rosen, Milton W. (1915–)
Ross, H (arry) E.
Rothrock, Addison M. (1903–1971)
Rudolph, Arthur L. (1906–1996)
Rynin, Nikolai Alexsevitch (1877–1942)
Sagan, Carl Edward (1934–1996)
Sagdeyev, Roald Z. (1932–)
Sander, Friedrich Wilhelm
Sänger, Eugen (1905–1964)
Sarabhai, Vikram Ambalal
(1919–1971)
Schmidlap, Johan (16th century)
Schmiedl, Friedrich (1902–1994)
Shesta, John
Silverstein, Abe (1908–2001)
Singer, Samuel Frederick (1924–)
Stack, John (1906–1972)
Stewart, Homer J. (1915–)
Stuhlinger, Ernst (1913–)
Syromiatnikov, Vladimir S. (1934–)
Thiel, Walter
Tikhonravov, Mikhail K. (1901–1974)
Tiling, Reinhold
Truax, Robert C.
Tsander, Fridrikh Arturovitch
(1887–1933)
Tsien, Hsue-Shen (1909–)
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovitch
(1857–1935)
Tupolev, Andrei (1888–1972)
Ulinski, Franz Abdon (1890–1974)
Valier, Max (1893–1930)
Van Allen, James Alfred (1914–)
von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian
(1912–1977)
Von Hoefft, Franz (1882–1954)
Von Kármán, Theodore (1881–1963)
Von Opel, Fritz (1899–1971)
Von Pirquet, Guido (1880–1966)
Walter, Hellmuth
Wexler, Harry (1911–1962)
Whipple, Fred L. (1906–)
Whittle, Frank (1907–1996)
Winkler, Johannes (1887–1947)
Wyld, James Hart
Yangel, Mikhail K. (1911–1971)
Rocket planes
BI-1 (Bereznyak-Isayev 1)
Douglas Skyrocket
Malyutka
MX-324
RP-318
X-1
X-2
X-15