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Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei developed the scientific knowledge that became the underpinning of spaceflight. Edward Everett Hale in ‘‘The Brick Moon’’ and Jules Verne in ‘‘From the Earth to the Moon’’ dreamed and wrote about it. But finally in the last half of the twentieth century, it was the Americans and the Soviet Russians, locked in the throes of the Cold War, who accomplished it. A good case can be made that when historians look back at the twentieth century, the initial efforts of humankind to slip ‘‘the surly bonds of Earth’’ will play a dominant role | ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPACE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 1 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Editor Hans Mark The University of Texas at Austin Associate Editors Milton A. Silveira Principal Engineer Aerospace Corp. University of Vermont Michael Yarymovych President International Academy of Astronautics Editorial Board Vyacheslav M. Balebanov Russian Academy of Sciences William F. Ballhaus Jr. The Aerospace Corporation Robert H. Bishop University of Texas at Austin Aaron Cohen Texas A M University Wallace T. Fowler University of Texas at Austin F. Andrew Gaffney Vanderbilt University Medical Center Owen K. Garriott University of Alabama Tom Gehrels University of Arizona at Tucson Gerry Griffin GDG Consulting Milton Halem NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center John S. Lewis University of Arizona at Tucson Thomas S. Moorman Booz Allen Hamilton Norman F. Ness University of Delaware Robert E. Smylie National Aeronautics Space Administration Richard H. Truly National Renewable Energy Laboratory Albert D. Wheelon Hughes Aircraft Co. Peter G. Wilhelm U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Laurence R. Young Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alexander Zakharov Russian Academy of Sciences Managing Editor Maureen Salkin Editorial Staff Vice President STM Books Janet Bailey Executive Editor Jacqueline I. Kroschwitz Director Book Production and Manufacturing Camille P. Carter Managing Editor Shirley Thomas Illustrations Manager Dean Gonzalez Assistant Managing Editor Kristen Parrish Editorial Assistant Surlan .
