ROCKET EXPLORATION OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE by Boyd, R. L. F., and M. J. Seaton (eds) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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ROCKET EXPLORATION OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE

by Boyd, R. L. F., and M. J. Seaton (eds)

New York, 1954: Pergamon Press, Inc., 376 pages, $15.00

The book contains a collection of the papers presented by the US Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel and the British Gassiot Committee of the Royal Society. It concerns what its title states, with chapters on rocket research techniques; pressures, densities, temperatures, and composition determinations of the high atmosphere; radiation and geomagnetic investigations, and so forth.

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