This book focuses on the aircraft designs of the man often referred to as the father of Russian aviation, Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev. Born in Russia in 1888, Tupolev went on to design aircraft that earned Russia worldwide acclaim for their...
A reprint of the 1953 University of Illinois Press edition, itself translated from the 1952 German edition (Das Marsprojekt, Bechtle Verlag, Esslingen). A forward look at interplanetary space flight, based on von Braun's experience working first for...