In 1899, at the request the British Association for the Advancement of Science from the year before, Edmund Taylor Whittaker submitted his "Report on the Progress of Solution to the Problem of Three Bodies". At that time, classical mechanics in general and the three-body problem in particular captured the imagination of many talented mathematicians, whose contributions Whittaker covered in his "Report". Whittaker later incorporated the "Report" into his textbook titled "Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies" (first edition 1907). It helped provide the scientific basis for the aerospace industry in the twentieth century. Despite its age, it remains in print in the early twenty-first century.