HANDBOOK FOR SPACE TRAVELERS by Hendrickson, W. B., Jr. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

HANDBOOK FOR SPACE TRAVELERS

by Hendrickson, W. B., Jr.

Indianapolis, 1959: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 256 pages, $3.95

This is a simplified explanation of space flight for the lay reader. The book is divided into five parts dealing with rockets and measuring instruments; history of research rockets and satellites; rocket bases past, present and future; mooncraft, spaceships, interplanetary and interstellar flight; and a planet-by-planet survey.

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