NUCLEAR ROCKET PROPULSION by Bussard, R. W. and R. D. deLauer reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

NUCLEAR ROCKET PROPULSION

by Bussard, R. W. and R. D. deLauer

New York, 1958: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 370 pages, $11.50

Chapters on rocket performance, systems analysis, heat transfer, fluid flow, materials, nucleonics, system control, testing, and advanced propulsion (fusion energy, decay energy, fission energy, reaction systems) make up this first detailed treatment of its subject in the book literature.

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