MEN, ROCKETS AND SPACE RATS by Malian, L. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

MEN, ROCKETS AND SPACE RATS

by Malian, L.

New York, 1955: Julian Messner Publishers, Inc., 335 pages, $5.95 (1961 edition)

Men, Rockets and Space Rats gives an account of the development of rockets, rocket airplanes, and space-aviation medicine by an observer who personally visited dozens of installations and had first-hand interviews with scientists and engineers engaged in space oriented research. The book was revised in 1958 and again in 1961 (368 pages). In the latest edition information is included on US Mercury suborbital flights and Soviet orbital flights.

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