ROCKET PROPELLANT HANDBOOK by Kit, B. and S. S. Evered reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

ROCKET PROPELLANT HANDBOOK

by Kit, B. and S. S. Evered

New York, 1960: Macmillan Co., 345 pages, $15.00

Some 100 chemicals used in liquid, solid, and slurry propellants are discussed in this very useful book. The nature, history, physical and chemical properties, production, cost and availability, storage methods, performance characteristics, etc., are considered for each propellant. The book has 29 chapters divided into four major sections: (1) "Fundamentals of Rocket Propellants," (2) "Inorganic Additives," (3) "Organic Propellants," and (4) "Pressurizing Gases." Definitions, tables of propellant data and conversion factors are given in three appendices.

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