NASA SP-2004-4230. NASA History Series. Chronicles the story of the Centaur, the world's first liquid-hydrogen rocket. Focuses on technical and political hurdles that Centaur faced over the three decades that it was managed by NASA Lewis Research Center. Explores NASA's effort to modify Centaur for launch from the Shuttle's cargo bay, a controversial project canceled in the wake of the Challenger accident.
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Puff piece for NASA,
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This review is from: Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket 1958-2002 (Hardcover)
"The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket" presumes to relate the joint efforts of the NASA Lewis Research Center and "industry" to develop the Centaur missile. Instead, it presents a slanted report of how Abe Silverstein, NASA's Centaur Project Director, designed the Centaur. He is cited on thirty pages, as compared with the single citation for the General Dynamics, Director of Engineering, Drew Kalitinsky which is misspelled as "Katalinsky" (p. 63). Contrary to the impression created by the authors, Centaur was designed by the engineers of General Dynamics.
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