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ties of Space Flight, edited by L. J. Carter (London: Putnam,
1957), p. 390.—Ed.
38. E. Fichot, "Le Prix REP-Hirsch' et les problems de
l'astronautique," Bulletin de la Societe Astronotnique de
France, vol. 42, February 1928, pp. 57-59; see editorial introduction
to REP, "La Navigation intersiderale on astronautique,"
L'Aerophile, vol. 36, 15 March 1928, pp. 67-70;
and "Preisausschreiben fiir eine Arbeit uber Raumschiffahrt,"
Der Flug, vol. 10, no. 7 (April 1928), p. 130.—Ed.
39. Woodford A. Heflin, "Astronautics," American Speech,
vol. 36, October 1961, pp. 169-74, and "Robert Esnault-
Pelterie," in Shirley Thomas, Men of Space (Philadelphia,
New York, London: Chilton Book Company, 1968), pp. 20-24,
(conversation between the author and Andre-Louis Hirsch).
—Ed.
40. A. Hamon, "Assemblee generate annuelle de la Societe
Astronomique de France" (5 June 1929); Gabrielle Camille
Flammarion, "Les Progres de la Societe Astronomique de
France," and "Prix et medailles decernes par la Societe,"
Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, vol. 43, July
1929, pp. 301, 313, 314; and "Der REP-Hirsch-Preis Professor
Herman Oberth zuerkannt," Die Rakete, vol. 3, 15 June 1929,
p. 75.—Ed.
41. This epilogue appears on p. 576 of Ways to Spaceflight,
by Hermann Oberth, NASA TT F-622, 1972, a translation
into English of the book Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (Munich-
Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1929).—Ed.
42. "The History of the REP-Hirsch Award," Astronautics,
no. 34 (June 1936), pp. 6-7, 13; Ary J. Sternfeld, "Initiation
a la cosmonautique," French manuscript translated and published
in Russian as Vvedenie v kosmonavtiku [Introduction
to Cosmonautics], Leningrad and Moscow: ONTI Glavnaya
redaktsiya aviatsionnoi literatury, 1937. See also Joseph
Krieger, Behind the Sputniks, A Survey of Soviet Space
Science (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1958), p. 351.
—Ed.
43. See pp. 3-97 of Interplanetary Flight and Communication,
vol. 3, (Theory of Space Flight), by Nikolai Alexeyevich
Rynin, NASA TT F-647, 1971, a translation into English of
the book Mezhplanetnye soobshcheniya Tom 3, vypusk 8,
Teoriya kosmicheskogo poleta (Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Academii
Nauk SSSR, 1932). It contains translations of REP's
"Consideration sur les resultats de l'allegement indefini des
moteurs," 1913 (see note 21); "L'Exploration par fusee de la
tres haute atmosphere et la possibilite des voyages interplanetaires,"
1928 (see note 22); and "Astronautik und
Relativitatstheorie, 1928." This last paper by REP first appeared
in Die Rakete, vol. 2, 15 August 1928, pp. 114-17; 15
September 1928, pp. 130-34; and 15 October 1928, pp. 146-48,
as translated from the French by Johannes Winkler. Subsequently
the paper was expanded and included as pp. 228-41
in REP, L'Astronautique (note 20).—Ed.
44. "Prix et medailles descernes par la Societe," Bulletin de
la Societe Astronomique de France, vol. 53, July 1939, p. 296.
—Ed.
45. Op. cit., note 20.
46. 27 May 1931 record flight (16,000 meters) of Professor
Auguste Picchard and M. Kipfer is discussed in "Le Mois, les
records," L'Aerophile, vol. 39, 15 June 1931, pp. 179-180, and
15 August 1931, pp. 244-47. On 18 August 1932, Professor
Piccard and M. Cosyns broke the previous record by reaching
a height of 16,700 meters. "A Stratospherical Record, Balloon
Ascent by Prof. Piccard, 10i/£ Miles Up," Flight, 26 August
1932, p. 798.—Ed.
47. Charles Dollfus, "L'Ascension stratospherique du professor
Piccard et de Cosyns," L'Aeronautique, vol. 14, September
1932, p. 268.—Ed.
48. Op. cit., note 2.
49. REP, L'Astronautique—Complement (Paris: Societe des
Ingenieurs Civils de France, 1935). Lecture given to the
Society on 25 May 1934.—Ed.
50. French patent 803,021, 29 June 1936, "de projectiles
auto-propulseurs dont la charge propulsive est repartie en
plusiers etages de combustion superposes suivant l'axe longitudinal
de la fusee" [self-projectiles with propellant charge
divided into several combustion stages superimposed along
longitudinal axis of the rocket].—Ed.
51. "Election a l'Academie des Sciences," Bulletin de la
Societe Astronomique de France, October 1936, p. 487.
52. American usage would define the term "jets" as injector
orifices.
53. REP, "Reglage des orifices pour la premiere experience
de refroidissement par oxygene liquide" [Adjustment of the
orifices for the first experiment in cooling by liquid oxygen],
Report no. 2125, Paris, September-October 1936; and "Essais
de mise a feu avec refroidissement par oxygene liquide,"
[Firing tests for cooling by liquid oxygen], Report no. 2163,
Paris, 15 October, 3 December, and 16 December 1936.—Ed.
54. REP, "Recapitulation des resultats obtenus au cours de
l'anne 1937" [Review of the results obtained in 1937], Report
no. 2333, Paris, 17 December 1937.—Ed.
55. A list of the French patents awarded him (to June
1929) appears in REP, Vie et travaux, pp. 93-100.—Ed.
56. REP, "Apparatus and Methods for Measurement of the
Hertzian Hardness," Engineer, vol. 146, nos. 3788, 3789, and
3790, 17, 24, and 31 August 1928, pp. 180-81, 196-97, and
220-22. Paper read on 24 November 1927 before the British
Section of Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France.—Ed.
57. "Moteur balistique" pp. 7-8 in Note 30 above.—Ed.
58. "Utilization de l'energie des marees," REP, Vie et
Traveaur, p. 38.—Ed.
59. REP, "Sur l'application de l'analyse dimensionnelle a
l'etude de l'ecoulement turbulent," Comptes Rendus de
l'Academie des Sciences, vol. 196, 26 June 1933, p. 1968;
"Etude de l'ecoulement en regime turbulent a travers des
orifices," Chaleur et Industrie, vol. 15, nos. 171, 172, and 173,
July, August, and September, pp. 129-36, 189-98, and 235-42;
and "Extension du principe de la loi-limite en analysis
dimensionnelle," Comptes Rendus, vol. 203, 26 October 1936,
p. 755.—Ed.
60. REP, L'Analyse dimensionnelle, Lausanne: F. Rouge,
1948. Additional publications of his concerning dimensional
analysis include the following, all appearing in Comptes
Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences: "Sur une confusion
d'idees," vol. 225, 13 October 1947, pp. 606-09; "Sur une
demonstration illusoire," vol. 225, 27 October 1947; "Variables
de Vaschy et similitude mecanique," vol. 226, 14 June 1948,
pp. 1935-38; "Action d'une variation du nombre des grandeurs
choisies comme principales sur les variables de Vaschy,"
vol. 227 30 August 1948, pp. 493-96; "Solution d'un para-