Interview with victor v. veysey... After outbreak of World War II he is assigned to management duties within Caltech's rocket project under leadership of Earnest Watson; involved in retrorocket, High Velocity Aircraft Rocket (HVAR), and barrage rocket programs for the navy....
Site alteration effects from rocket exhaust impingment during a simulated viking mars landing.A potential interference problem for the Viking '75 scientific investigation of the Martian surface resulting from retrorocket exhaust plume impingement of the surface was investigated experimentally and analytically....
Impact of retro rocket plumes on upper stage aerothermodynamics during stage separation... The effect of the plumes of first-stage retrorockets on upper-stage aerodynamics and aerothermal loads is analyzed by means of wind-tunnel testing in the hypersonic wind tunnel H2K of DLR, German Aerospace Center....
Penetraticn distance of retrorocket exhaust plumesA simple method for predicting the penetration distance of highly underexpanded retrorocket exhau,;t plumes into an oncoming free stream is developed and com-pared with experimental data....