session 2

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
papers

Order

Time

Paper title

Selection result

Mode

Presentation status

Speaker

Affiliation

Country

1

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

accepted

15'

withdrawn

Mr. Frank Winter

United States

2

Louis Damblanc - Multistage rocket pioneer

accepted

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

accepted

15'

confirmed

Dr. Ake Ingemar Skoog

Germany

4

History of British Rocket Assisted Take Off Units

accepted

15'

confirmed

Mr. Andrew Chatwin

The British Interplanetary Society

United Kingdom

5

The Corona satellite program and the beginnings of reconnaissance satellites

accepted

15'

confirmed

Ms. Amy Parlett

University of Alabama in Huntsville

United States

6

The First Soviet Lunar Flights

accepted

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

accepted

15'

confirmed

Mr. Christophe Rothmund

Snecma

France

8

The Lunar Roving Vehicle – A Legacy of Lunar Surface Exploration

accepted

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

accepted

15'

confirmed

Mr. Oleg A. Sokolov

The British Interplanetary Society

United Kingdom

10

Techniques to Digitally Preserve the Historical Film of a Space Agency

accepted

15'

confirmed

Mr. Mark Becnel

University of Alabama in Huntsville

United States