Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers: A History of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics...and What Came Before (Paperback)

* Chapter 1 Creating a Profession: The Prehistory of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, 1881-1928; * Chapter 2 The Rocketeers: The American Rocket Society, 1930-1940; * Chapter 3 Organizing a Profession, The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, 1928-1935; * Chapter 4 Coming of Age: The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences; * Chapter 5 Turning Professional: The American Rocket Society, 1941-1952; * Chapter 6 Engineering the Space Age: The American Rocket Society, 1953-1958; * Chapter 7 Years of Victory and Growth: The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences; * Chapter 8 The Merger and Beyond: IAAS, ARS, AIAA, 1957-1980; * Chapter 9 The AIAA, 1980-2003; * Bibliography; * Appendix A Presidents of the ARS, IAS, and AIAA; * Appendix B AIAA Award Recipients; * Index.