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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.
24-May-01 | NASA approves Deep Impact
NASA has approved development of Deep Impact, a robotic spacecraft which will attempt to collide a probe with a comet nucleus in order to study the comet’s interior. A $279 million mission, the seventh* in NASA’s Discovery Program, Deep Impact is slated to launch aboard a Delta II rocket sometime around January 2004. (NASA Press Release, 24-May-01)