Author Description

This comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM tells the fascinating story of the history of the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal which produced many important missiles and rockets. Illustrated with thousands of superb photographs, with special histories and biographies, it covers Nike, Pershing, Redstone, Stinger, Saturn and Jupiter rockets, Werner von Braun and his work, the Explorer satellite, and much more. In addition to the main Adobe Acrobat file, you'll find over 5000 image files in the IMAGE FILES folder,and several hundred video clip files in the VIDEO FILES folder. The disc is reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD. Our CD-ROMs are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work and educational tool.