JBIS May/June 2000

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Pioneering Rocketry

Early Spin-Stabilised Rockets - the Rockets of Bergrat Heinrich Gottlob Kühn
Hans-Dierk Fricke

The Enigmatic Mr Hale and his Rockets
Frank H. Winter

The Reichwehr, the Rocket, and the Versailles Treaty: A Popular Myth Reexamined
Michael J. Neufeld

Cosmic Earth Impacts: (i) Awareness (ii) Protection

Preventing Armageddon: Hype or Reality
Joan Johnson-Freese and Jim Knox

Deflection and Disruption of Asteroids on Collision Course with Earth
Johndale C. Solem

Space Launch Vehicles

Launch Profiles Used by the Four-Stage Proton-K
Phillip S. Clark