SOUNDING ROCKETS by Newell, H. E., Jr. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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SOUNDING ROCKETS

by Newell, H. E., Jr. (ed)

New York, 1959: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 334 pages, $12.50

Several chapters are by Newell (high altitude sounding rockets, the use of rockets for geophysical and solar research, facilities for the firing of sounding rockets, and artificial satellites of the Earth) and the remainder are by high altitude rocket authorities from the US, Great Britain, France, and Japan. They discuss the Aerobee, Deacon, Cajun, Asp, Loki-Wasp, balloon-launched rockets, aircraft-launched rockets, Nike-Cajun and Nike-Deacon, Terrapin, Viking, British, French and Japanese sounding rockets, and future sounding rockets.

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