... B ut today the space program in the United States is in trouble. ... If you want to see America's space program restored to its former glory, you can help. ... TPS is particularly active in promoting cooperative projects between NASA and the Russian space agency. ... For more information see The Planetary Society WWW page . The National Space Society promotes change in social, technical, economic, and political conditions to advance the day when people will live and work in space. ... Plea .. ...

A Brief History of Rocketry . ... The earliest solid rocket fuel was a form of gunpowder, and the earliest recorded mention of gunpowder comes from China late in the third century before Christ. ... In 1946, von Braun and his team arrived at White Sands, N.M., where, for the first time, von Braun learned of work done by the American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard. ... Von Braun did. Three months after the demonstration flight, von Braun was engaged to work on liquid propelled rockets for the Army. ...

N.A. Eismont . ... In the USSR the first phase of Dutch desease of rocket and space technology (RST) finishes. ... End of World War II and begin of the cold war as the condition and the cause of birth and development of RST in USSR and USA. ... But now with use of Russian rocket engines RD-180. ... As to NK-15 engine, its development took much more time than it was initially planned; the difficulties of this development were one of the failure reason of the Soviet mammed Moon N1-L3 program. ...

Cosmic Research, Vol. 42, No. 5, 2004, pp. 435­488. Translated from Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, Vol. 42, No. 5, 2004, pp. 453­508. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Veselovsky, Panasyuk, Avdyushin, Bazilevskaya, Belov, Bogachev, Bogod, Bogomolov, Bothmer, Boyarchuk, Vashenyuk, Vlasov, Gnezdilov, Gorgutsa, Grechnev, Denisov, Dmitriev, Dryer, Yermolaev, Eroshenko, Zherebtsov, Zhitnik, Zhukov, Zastenker, Zelenyi, Zeldovich, Ivanov-Kholodnyi, Ignat'ev, Ishkov, Kolomiytsev, Krasheninnikov, Kudela,