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To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles
"A valuable contribution to the field of aerospace literature," this book includes an extensive overview of Delta history and development along with chapters on Atlas, Titan, Scout, Space Shuttle, and much more.
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Many other excellent books about spaceflight are recommended here.
05-Apr-01 | NASA chooses Swift as MIDEX-3
NASA has exercised an option on its 2000 Launch Services contract with Boeing to launch the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer spacecraft. Swift, the third mission in the NASA MIDEX program, is scheduled to launch in September 2003 aboard a 3-stage Delta II using three booster motors and a 10-foot-diameter composite fairing. (NASA press release, 3-Apr-01)