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...e intercepted by anti-aircraft guns and propeller-driven fighters. The V-2 rocket, at 3500 mph outside the atmosphere and half that speed on impact, could no

...ir hiding place for literally tons on research documents pertaining to the rocket and supersonic flight."</blockquote> ...were at war while the Kerensky government was in office. (In fact, German rocket research began in earnest only after 1929, when Hermann Oberth published ''

...ichael Neufeld writes that after the August 1943 attack on Peenemunde, the rocket works were moved to an abandoned underground storage facility. The tunnels ...says, the tunnels are suggestive of the '''double integral''', translating rocket acceleration into a point -- the Brennschluss point. And as noted above, h

...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth Hermann Oberth], the pioneer of German rocket science, inventor of liquid-fuel propulsion, consultant on [[http://gravity ...ough some arithmetic, and you get the current position and velocity of the rocket... leading to the right moment to shut down the engine (Brennschluss).<br>

...?p=6 a tilted camera-angle]. "From overhead" implies a German bomber's (or rocket's) view. 230.21-22 '''Volksgrenadier: setz V-2 ein!'''<br>

[[image:rocket-insignia.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]361.5 '''insigne'''<br /> ...1942. The photo shows the V3 insigne, a (less than) pretty witch astride a rocket, carrying her obsolete broom. The color illustration is an artist's impress

...consists of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. This stage accelerated the rocket through the upper atmosphere. So, Rocketman's cry of "Hauptstufe!" might b ...largely serviceable. Hauptstufe is final. Throttles are fully opened, the rocket takes off and hopefully clears the launchpad. If it does not and falls down

...-wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou. It was released in the USA as ''By Rocket to the Moon'', and in the UK as ''Woman in the Moon''.

No, there's never a frown, here in Rocket,

...raphical characters in the book: '''A''' and '''--'''. If the first is the rocket waiting to fly, the last is the flattened impact site with nothing left sta

...Elsewhere, Statistician Roger Mexico plots the distribution pattern of the rocket strikes according to a probability equation. But his data is no help. The o ...t and fire it off. Aimed at what and for what purpose? Who knows? Making a rocket from scrounged parts seems to be like making a philosophical system or a my

'''Rocket Power'''<br /> ...topical (in that its central mystery is not a cryptogram but a supersonic rocket), and more nuanced, ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is even less easy to assimilate i