ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS by Alperin, M. and G. P. Sutton (eds) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS

by Alperin, M. and G. P. Sutton (eds)

New York, 1959: Pergamon Press, Inc., 237 pages, $6.00

Advanced Propulsion Systems contains the papers delivered at the First Advanced Propulsion Systems Symposium sponsored by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research and North American Aviation, Inc. Propulsion systems, power sources, propellants, etc., are considered, with chapters on ion propulsion systems, solar heating, thrust from plasma, ozone and fluorine propellants, use of metals and metal hydrides, stabilized free radicals, magnetohydrodynamic generators, nuclear power-plants, and so forth.

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III