ADVANCES IN THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES - Volume 6 by Jacobs, H. and E. Burgess (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

ADVANCES IN THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES - Volume 6

by Jacobs, H. and E. Burgess (ed)

New York, 1961: Macmillan Co., 898 pages, $25.00

Containing the proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Astronautical Society, it covers nine major fields: space communications, propulsion, guidance and control, space medicine and astrobiology, space flight mechanics, space vehicle design, space vehicles and re-entry, applications of astronautical systems, and space physics. Typical chapter titles are: "Beacon Transmitters and Power Supply for an Inflatable Satellite," "Project Score—Signal Corps Communication Satellite," "Space Missions for Ion Propulsion Systems," "Guidance for Interplanetary Landings," "Basic Research in Astrobiology," "Application of Lunar Theory to the Motion of Satellites," "Disintegration Barriers to Extremely High-Speed Space Travel," "Reliability for Space Craft Electronics," "The Feasibility of Propelling Vehicles by Contained Nuclear Explosions," "Some Considerations of Expected Radiation Belts of Planets Mars and Venus," and "Requirements for the Exploration of Jupiter and Its Moons."

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