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Topic: America's First Rocket Company (Frank Winter)
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cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 05-25-2017 10:40 AM
America's First Rocket Company: Reaction Motors, Inc. by Frank H. Winter America's First Rocket Company is the story of Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI), the U.S.'s first liquid-propellant rocket company. Founded in December, 1941 following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, with the single-minded goal of developing the liquid-propellant rocket for the war effort, RMI was an ambitious undertaking at a time when rocket propulsion technology was in its infancy.RMI went on to accomplish some of the most significant technological breakthroughs in American aerospace history, paving the way to manned flights far beyond the speed of sound, the beginnings of manned flight into space, and development of the critically important vernier motors for the Surveyor spacecraft that became the U.S.'s first soft-landing craft on the surface of the Moon. - Hardcover
- American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (Sept. 29, 2017)
- ISBN-10: 162410441X
- ISBN-13: 978-1624104411
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Glint Member Posts: 1040 From: New Windsor, Maryland USA Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 05-25-2017 12:40 PM
So, in other words, they failed at "the single-minded goal of developing the liquid-propellant rocket for the war effort"? Or did a few of their rockets fall on Berlin that we haven't heard about? | |
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