Frederick I. Ordway III

Frederick Ira Ordway

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Frederick Ira Ordway III was born in New York City and raised in Maine. He studied geosciences at Harvard University. He spent several years in graduate study at the University of Paris and other universities in Europe. He worked at a mining company and later for the rocket fuel company Reaction Motors. He spent three years as a technical adviser on the film *2001: A Space Odyssey*. From 1970-1973 he was a faculty member at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. He then became a special assistant to Robert Seamans, the first Director of the Energy Research and Development Agency (now the DOE), where he stayed for the remainder of his career. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than thirty books and over three hundred articles. He was the longest-serving member of the American Rocket Society, having joined in 1939 and maintained his membership until his death in 2014.

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The rocket team
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The Rocket Team
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Visions of spaceflight
Representative edition published 2001
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Visions of Spaceflight
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History of Rocketry and Astronautics
Representative edition published 1989
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History of Rocketry and Astronautics
Representative edition published 1989
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History of rocketry & space travel
Representative edition published 1975
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Pictorial guide to planet Earth
Representative edition published 1975
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Dividends from space
Representative edition published 1972
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Advances in Space Science and Technology
Representative edition published 1972
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Life in other solar systems
Representative edition published 1965
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Conquering the sun's empire
Representative edition published 1963
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International missile and spacecraft guide
Representative edition published 1960
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Wernher Von Braun: Crusader for Space
Representative edition published 1993
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Conquering the Sun's Empire
Representative edition published 1965
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Applied Astronautics
Representative edition published 1963
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Applied Astronautics
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Applied astronautics
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Basic Astronautics
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Annotated bibliography of space science and technology with an astronomical supplement
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Basic astronautics
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International missile and spacecraft guide [by] Frederick I. Ordway [and] Ronald C. Wakeford
Representative edition published 1960
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