MISSILE ENGINEERING HANDBOOK by Besserer, C. W. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

MISSILE ENGINEERING HANDBOOK

by Besserer, C. W.

Princeton (New Jersey), 1958: D. van Nostrand Co., Inc., 600 pages, $14.50

The "Handbook" contains useful data of interest to missile designers and developers, as well as students, in the form of explanatory paragraphs, curves, formulae, tables, etc. A glossary of terms is included. It is the fourth volume in the series "Principles of Guided Missile Design" (G. Merrill, ed) and deals with atmospheric properties, materials, structures, aerodynamics, propulsion, space flight, etc.

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