201 pgs, 1994, Mina-Helwig Company
ISBN 1-886133-01-8

After a half century of using rockets for space exploration and exploitation, the advances of the American rocket industry have leveled off. Hujsak examines various past launch systems, from Atlas to ULLV, as well as rocketry in general, in terms of both their history and their outlook for the future in times of budget constraints and foreign competition. The clearly written text is supplemented with dozens of photographs and well-labeled drawings.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. A Half Century of Rocketry
2. Atlas
3. Delta
4. Titan
5. Space Shuttle and Derivatives
6. Small Payload Launch Vehicles
7. Solid Rocket Boosters
8. Delta Clipper Single-Stage-to-Orbit
9. Safe Rockets - the Hybrid Design
10. A Modern Space Launch System
11. National Aero-Space Plane
12. Ultra Large Launch Vehicles - ULLV's
13. Nuclear Powered Rockets
14. Chemical Propulsion Orbit Transfer Stages
15. Advanced Rocket Concepts
16. Is There a U.S. Space Policy?