REALITIES OF SPACE TRAVEL by Carter, L. J. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

REALITIES OF SPACE TRAVEL

by Carter, L. J. (ed)

New York, 1957: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 431 pages, $8.00

The book places under one cover many of the significant scientific and engineering articles appearing earlier in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Individual contributions are organized into ten sections: introduction to astronautics, satellite vehicles, interplanetary flight, physical factors in space flight, biological aspects of space flight, lunar and planetary objectives, the development of astronautics, missile establishments and test stations, history of astronautics, and interstellar flight.

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