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40. Space Science <strong>and</strong> me, Bengt Hultqvist, originally published in Swedish in 1997 by the Swedish<br />
Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences, translated by <strong>ESA</strong> <strong>and</strong> published in 2003 as <strong>ESA</strong> SP-1269<br />
41. Geschichte der deutschen Raumfahrtpolitik 1923-2002, Nikolas Reinke, Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen<br />
Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, R. Oldenburg Verlag, München 2004<br />
9. Acknowledgements<br />
I wish <strong>to</strong> extend my warm thanks <strong>to</strong> Jan G. Englund, former direc<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong> Esrange, <strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong> his former assistant<br />
Mrs Barbro Minde, for collecting <strong>and</strong> copying at the Esrange library/archives many sounding-rocket-related<br />
lists <strong>and</strong> papers. Thanks also go <strong>to</strong> Sven Grahn <strong>of</strong> the SSC for providing images <strong>and</strong> lists <strong>of</strong> Sweden’s<br />
national sounding-rocket activities.<br />
Enthusiastic support was received by Peter Preu <strong>and</strong> Maria Roth from DLR/Bonn who provided archive<br />
material from the DLR library. Mr Peter Turner, Head <strong>of</strong> MORABA, DLR München-Oberpfaffenh<strong>of</strong>en,<br />
provided a list <strong>of</strong> German sounding-rocket missions launched from that base.<br />
Warm thanks go also <strong>to</strong> Marie-Angèle Lemoine <strong>of</strong> the <strong>ESA</strong>’s Information Documentation Service at the<br />
<strong>ESA</strong> Head Offi ce library in Paris for making available a large number <strong>of</strong> ‘back-number’ reports from the<br />
<strong>ESA</strong> archives. I would also like <strong>to</strong> thank Wolfgang Herfs (ESTEC) for assembling the Proceedings <strong>of</strong> sounding-rocket<br />
symposia published by <strong>ESA</strong> Publications Division <strong>and</strong> for checking this manuscript. Anthony<br />
Blend <strong>of</strong> <strong>ESA</strong>’s Translation Division helped put the English <strong>of</strong> this document in<strong>to</strong> proper shape.