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100 1  Teitel, Amy Shira,|eauthor. 
245 10 Breaking the chains of gravity :|bthe story of spaceflight
       before NASA /|cAmy Shira Teitel. 
246 3  Story of spaceflight before National Aeronautics and Space
       Administration 
246 30 Story of spaceflight before NASA 
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury Sigma,|c2016. 
300    304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations 
       (some color) ;|c23 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-296) and 
       index. 
505 0  Hobby rocketeers -- The rocket loophole -- The turning 
       tide of war -- Escape and surrender -- Nazi rockets in New
       Mexico -- Rockets meet airplanes -- A new war, a new 
       missile, and a new leader -- Higher and faster -- Edging 
       into hypersonics -- The floating astronaut -- Space 
       becomes an option -- The first satellite race -- One 
       little ball's big impact -- The fight to control space -- 
       Epilogue : America finds its footing in space -- Glossary 
       of people -- Glossary of places and organizations -- 
       Glossary of rockets. 
520    A history of pre-NASA spaceflight describes how America's 
       space agency drew some of the world's leading minds, 
       discussing such subjects as Wernher von Braun's Jupiter 
       rocket, the cutting-edge aircraft flown by NACA test pilot
       Neil Armstrong and the rivalries between the various arms 
       of the U.S. military. 
520    NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically 
       peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the 
       Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in
       a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, 
       drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet 
       world had to offer. In the 1930s, rockets were all the 
       rage in Germany, the focus both of scientists hoping to 
       fly into space and of the German armed forces, looking to 
       circumvent the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. 
       One of the key figures in this period was Wernher von 
       Braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became 
       the devastating V-2. As the war came to its chaotic 
       conclusion, von Braun escaped from the ruins of Nazi 
       Germany, and was taken to America where he began 
       developing missiles for the US Army. Meanwhile, the US Air
       Force was looking ahead to a time when men would fly in 
       space, and test pilots like Neil Armstrong were flying 
       cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper 
       atmosphere. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story
       of America's nascent space program, its scientific 
       advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused 
       between the various arms of the US military. At this point
       getting a man in space became a national imperative, 
       leading to the creation of the National Aeronautics and 
       Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA. 
610 10 United States.|bNational Advisory Committee for 
       Aeronautics. 
610 10 United States.|bNational Aeronautics and Space 
       Administration|xHistory. 
650  0 Aeronautics|xResearch|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Astronautics|xResearch|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Aeronautics and state|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Aeronautics and state|zGermany|xHistory. 
650  0 Space race. 
650  0 Rocketry|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Rockets (Aeronautics)|xHistory. 
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