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    Title

    Scientific and Technical Histories

    Description

    Historical summaries of rocket and space programmes and the corresponding technical and scientific achievements.

    Date

    2012-10-04

    Time

    10:15

    Room

    TS10 (Sala Sirius, Hall 3)

    IPC members
    • Chairman: Mr. Christophe Rothmund, Airbus Safran Launchers, France;

    • Rapporteur: Mr. William Jones, United States;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    Reaction-Propelled Manned Aircraft Concepts, 1670-1900 - The Precursors to Unmanned and Manned Spacecraft Concepts, A Survey

    15'

    withdrawn

    Mr. Frank Winter

    United States

    2

    Louis Damblanc - Multistage rocket pioneer

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Philippe Jung

    Association Aéronautique & Astronautique de France (3AF)

    France

    3

    Can a pile of scrap unmask a new high technology? The A4/V2 No V89 Bäckebo-Torpeden

    15'

    confirmed

    Dr. Ake Ingemar Skoog

    Germany

    4

    History of British Rocket Assisted Take Off Units

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Andrew Chatwin

    The British Interplanetary Society

    United Kingdom

    5

    The Corona satellite program and the beginnings of reconnaissance satellites

    15'

    confirmed

    Ms. Amy Parlett

    University of Alabama in Huntsville

    United States

    6

    The First Soviet Lunar Flights

    15'

    confirmed

    Prof. Vyacheslav V. Ivashkin

    Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS

    Russian Federation

    7

    THE VALOIS ENGINE AND THE DIAMANT-B LAUNCH VEHICLE -- FIRST STAGE PROPULSION SYSTEM

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Christophe Rothmund

    Snecma

    France

    8

    The Lunar Roving Vehicle – A Legacy of Lunar Surface Exploration

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. John Alcorn

    University of Alabama in Huntsville

    United States

    9

    The first practical attempt to create an 'Aerospike'-concept rocket engine in the FSU

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Oleg A. Sokolov

    The British Interplanetary Society

    United Kingdom

    10

    Techniques to Digitally Preserve the Historical Film of a Space Agency

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Mark Becnel

    University of Alabama in Huntsville

    United States