BEHIND THE SPUTNIKS: A SURVEY OF SOVIET SPACE SCIENCE by Krieger, F. J. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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BEHIND THE SPUTNIKS: A SURVEY OF SOVIET SPACE SCIENCE

by Krieger, F. J.

Washington, 1958: Public Affairs Press, 380 pages, $6.00

Behind the Sputniks provides an interesting and informative insight into the Soviet rocket-astronautical field. It includes a history of Russian rocketry and astronautical planning: translations of missile, rocket, and space flight articles and reports; and a bibliography, all based on a Rand Corp. two-volume "A Casebook on Soviet Astronautics." Specific sections are entitled "Space Flight Comes of Age," "Problems of Astronautics," "Biological Factors," "Lunar and Cosmic Factors," "Rocket and Missile Developments," "Satellite Plans," and "The Sputnik."


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