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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Space and the United States Navy

Cover,inside cover and Contents(1.1 mb file, download as a .pdf)

Foreword and Color Photo (Pages 2-3, 1.9 mb file, download as a .pdf)

Once a Fighter Pilot... (Pages 4-7, 1.1 mb file, download as a .pdf)

To Leave the Earth and Settle Up-Settle Down (Pages 8-17, 1.1 mb file, download as .pdf)

Navy Rocket Pioneers (Pages 18-25, 950 kb file, download as .pdf)

Naval Research Labatory, Rocket Power and Vanguard (Pages 26-38 and 43, 1.6 mb file, download as .pdf)

Color photographs (Pages 39 and 42, 1.9 mb file, download as .pdf)

Color photographs (Pages 40 and 41, 1.7 mb file, download as .pdf)

Rocket Power/New Directions (Pages 44-49, 1.2 mb file, download as .pdf)

From Polar Fronts to Solar Storms (Pages 50-59, 2.0 mb file, download as .pdf)

Manned Space (Pages 60-66, 2.0 mb file, download as .pdf)

Color photograph (Page 67, 2.1 mb file, download as .pdf)

Color photograph (Page 68, 1.3 mb file, download as .pdf)

Color photographs (Page 69, 1.4 mb file, download as .pdf)

Color photographs (Page 70, 1.6 mb file, download as .pdf)

Color photographs (Page 71, 1.7 mb file, download as .pdf)

Color photographs (Page 72, 1.6 mb file, download as .pdf)

Support Forces (Pages 73-75, 1.1 mb file, download as .pdf)

Support Forces-continued (Page 76, 1.4 mb file, download as .pdf)

Support Forces-continued (Page 77, 1.7 mb file, download as .pdf)

The Jewels of Isabella (Pages 78-80, 1.5 mb file, download as .pdf)

Back inside cover (1.0 mb file, download as .pdf)

Back cover (1.0 mb file, download as .pdf)

NOTE: This monograph has been out of print for many years and paper copies are no longer available through the Naval Aviation History Branch or the Government Printing Office. This electronic version has been placed on the Naval Historical Center's homepage because it is an excellent reference source for information about the Navy's role in space. As an electronic document, there is a compromise between picture quality and the capability of the optical-character-reader software to correctly identify the text in the monograph, which results in the picture quality being less than optimum.

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