FRONTIER TO SPACE by Burgess, E. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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FRONTIER TO SPACE

by Burgess, E.

New York, 1955: Macmillan Co., 174 pages, $4.95

A technical survey is provided of the exploration of the upper atmosphere, particularly by means of rocket-borne instrumentation. There are chapters on upper atmosphere physics, sounding rockets, instrumentation, solar radiation, ionospherics, cosmic radiations, and satellites and space vehicles.


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