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Gr 5–7—With particular reference to the collections of the National Air and Space museum, for which he works as an educator, Grove identifies and describes 27 significant vehicles or technological advances in the history of flight. Arranged roughly in chronological order, these range from the real or proposed gas balloons of 19th-century American inventor Thaddeus Lowe and the Wright Flyer to the likewise privately built SpaceShipOne, which flew in 2004. Though the author limits his field of view by only rarely looking beyond the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

From eighteenth-century ballooning through present-day developments in private space travel, important events in aviation and space flight are covered in c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More