ROCKET PROPULSION by ''Barrère, M., A. Jaumotte, V. F. de Veubeke, and J. Vandenkerckhove reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

ROCKET PROPULSION

by Barrère, M., A. Jaumotte, V. F. de Veubeke, and J. Vandenkerckhove

Amsterdam (Holland), 1960: Elsevier Publishing Co., 829 pages, $27.00 (available through D. van Nostrand Co., Inc., Princeton, New Jersey)'

Some of the topics taken up in this highly important, and complete, book are liquid propellants, combustion instability, rocket testing, solid propellant rocket design, nozzle theory, performance optimization, "exotic" propellants, exterior ballistics and aerothermochemical phenomena. One of the few very complete treatises available, "Rocket Propulsion" is well illustrated with curves and tables, and contains useful references. The book has been considerably revised and enlarged from the original French edition entitled "La Propulsion par Fusées."

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