PROPULSION SYSTEMS FOR SPACE FLIGHT by Corliss, W. R. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

PROPULSION SYSTEMS FOR SPACE FLIGHT

by Corliss, W. R.

New York, 1960: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 300 pages, $10.00

This most informative book includes discussions of the space environment, the generation of power aboard space vehicles, and such advanced propulsion systems as electrical, thermal, nuclear, and photonic, as well as systems using natural force fields (including magnetic fields, antigravity, etc.). The book concludes with a "Summary and Evaluation" and a glossary of terms. It is without doubt the best advanced propulsion systems treatise available up to 1960.

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