SCIENCE IN SPACE by Berkner, L. V. and H. Odishaw (eds) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

SCIENCE IN SPACE

by Berkner, L. V. and H. Odishaw (eds)

New York, 1961: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 439 pages, $7.00

Based on a series of reports put out by the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences, the book looks into almost every conceivable means that science can benefit from astronautics, and astronautics from the development of science. Contributions are by leading scientists in their respective fields. Among the topics covered are results of experiments in space, the nature of gravitation, knowledge of the Earth from space, aspects of geodesy, meteorology, upper atmospheric rocket research, satellite research of the upper atmosphere, the Moon and planets, physics of fields and energetic particles, interplanetary gases and magnetic fields, the acceleration and propagation of particles within the Solar System, the Sun, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and exobiology.

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