Floating to Space - The Airship to Orbit Program by John Powell
©2008 Apogee Books
ISBN 978-1-894959-73-5
INDEX
2001 A Space Odyssey 9, 50
A
Ad Astra rocket company 116
Aerobee sounding rocket 57
Aerospike engine 117
Aerovironment 48
Apollo balloon 62
Ariane 10
Arlandes, Marquis Francois d' 53
Armstrong, Neil 10
ATO 12-14, 16, 18-19, 21, 28-30, 32-33, 37, 39-41, 46, 51, 55, 60, 67, 69, 75, 77-78, 82, 89, 92, 94, 99, 101, 103, 109, 111-112, 117, 122, 129-132, 137-138, 140-141, 145-147, 151, 159-161, 179, 190
B
Beachcraft Starship 139
Bergerac, Cyrano de 67, 85
Bespin 68
Bigelow, Robert 62
Birnbaum, Ernest 54
Blackbird 47
Blue jets 40, 42
Boeing Dreamliner 139
Bova, Ben 69
Breitling Orbiter 55, 90
C
Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology 44-45
CEV 9
Coimbra, Portugal 52
Columbia space shuttle 9, 19
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur 70
D
Dark Sky Station 5, 15-16, 29-33, 49, 63, 65, 68-69, 71, 81-82, 85-86, 90-92, 94-99, 103, 109, 115, 117, 122, 124-125, 131, 133, 138-139, 141, 145, 173, 179-181, 183, 195-196, 198
Darth Vader 68
DC-X 10
Deep Space One 89, 115
Deutsch de la Meurthe prize 53, 76
Dnepr rocket 62Adams, Douglas 69
Dragonlady 47
DSS 13, 15, 29-32, 68, 85, 88, 94-95, 98-103, 130, 137-138, 140, 151, 179-183
Dumont airship 53, 76
E
e.coli 17, 46
ECHO 27, 59-60, 69
Elves 17, 42
Exobase 41
Explorer IX 41, 59
F
FAA 147
Fabrication of Inflatable Re-entry Structure for Test 57
Farside 55
Fuller, Buckminster 85, 87
G
Gagarin, Yuri 10
Genesis I 62
Gerlach, Nevada 151
Giffard, Henri 53
Glenn, John 10
Gnomes 17, 43, 147
Goodyear 13, 15, 23, 76, 113
Gossamer 14-16, 48, 75
Graf Zeppelin 15, 23, 29, 76
Gudenoff, Constantin 54
Gulliver's Travels 67
Gusmao, Bartolomeu Lourenco de 52
H
Halley's comet 60
Helios 48
Helium bulge 41, 59
Hindenburg 19, 76
Hyderabad 44
I
IMP 56-57, 62, 121
Inflato-Plane 113
Ionosphere 41
IRDT 62
ISS 138
J
JAXA 56
Jellyfish balloon 134
JPAerospace 6, 46, 181, 183
K
Kinard, William 57
Kipfer, Paul 53
Kittinger, Captain Joe 86
Knott, Julian 51
Kodiak 23
Krasnogorskii, B. 69
L
Lake Kyoga 63
Laputa 67
Lenticular clouds 43
Leonid meteors 17, 45
Lewis and Clark 21
Lockheed 47, 156
Loktak lake, India 63
Long March rocket 10
M
MacCready, Paul 48
Mach glider 119-121, 141
Maglev flywheel 118
Manhigh 71
Mesopause 40-41
Mesospheric 17-18, 43, 134-135, 180
Meteor crater 92
Microsat 173-174, 176, 178, 186, 197
MIG-25 Foxbat 47
Mims, Forrest M., III 48
MIR 12, 20, 27
MIT 118
Montgolfier, (Joseph and Jaques-Etienne) 53
Mount Flatten 71
N
Nazca 51, 63
NEMO 113
Nimbus 7 48
Noctilucent clouds 17
Norge airship 76
NSMV 78
P
Piantanida, Nick 55
Piccard, Auguste 53-54
Piccard, Don 54-55
Plasmasphere 41
Pongsats 151, 155, 159-160, 183, 189, 192-193, 198-200
Powell, William and John 2-3, 134
Prokofiev, George 54
Propeller 14, 75, 89-90, 170, 191-192
Proteus 48
R
Reveillon, Jean-Batiste 53
Rockoon 32, 55, 71, 161-164, 171
Bacon, Roger 52
Rozier 53
Russian Space Agency 9, 28
Rutan, Burt 48
S
Santos-Dumont, Alberto 53, 76
Scaled Composites 10, 48, 114
Scroggins, James 95
Shakespeare, William 52
Shotput 60
Skunkworks 47, 156
Skylab 12, 20, 27
Soyuz 10, 20, 28, 62
Space Shuttle 9-10, 12, 18-20, 27-28, 42-43, 95, 111, 116, 119, 139, 148
Space planes 10
SpaceShip One 48, 114
Spacex 10
Sprites 17, 40, 42-43, 135, 147
Sputnik 55-56
SR71 47
SSTO 28
Star Trek 68-69, 100, 126
Stratopause 39
Stratos 68-69, 100
Stratostar 178-179
Swift, Jonathan 65, 67
T
Tendrils 17, 42
Terze, Francesco de Lana de 52
TGF 43
Thermopause 40
Total Ozone Portable Spectrometer 48
TR3 47
Transhab 62
Trolls 42
Tropopause 39-40
U
U2 47
ULDB 91
Uros, Peru 63
V
Van Allen, James 55, 71
VASIMR 115-116
Vega mission 61
Venera 68
Vollrath, Natalie 6
W
Wan-Hu 10, 27, 32
White Sands Missile Range 57
Whittle. Sir Frank 145
Woodman, Jim 51
Wright, Wilbur and Orville 76, 145
X
X-15 rocket plane 114
XAP 55
XB-70 107
Y
Yagi 152
Yeager, Chuck 107
Z
Zettel, Sarah 68
Zond 54