SPACEFLIGHT TECHNOLOGY by Gatland, K. W. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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SPACEFLIGHT TECHNOLOGY

by Gatland, K. W. (ed)

New York, 1960: Academic Press, 385 pages, $11.00

This proceedings contains the following contributions:

  • "Britain's Place in Interplanetary Exploration,"
  • "The Economics of Spaceflight,"
  • "Commonwealth University Participation,"
  • "Canadian Facilities,"
  • "Solid Propellant Rockets for High-Altitude Sounding and their Economics,"
  • "Some Remarks on Woomera as a Space Vehicle Tracking and Launching Station,"
  • "General Review of a British Spaceflight Programme Based on Blue Streak,"
  • "The Performance of Nuclear Thermal Fission Rockets,"
  • "Astronautics at Armstrong Whitworth's,"
  • "Heating Problems of Entry into Planetary Atmospheres,"
  • "The Recovery of Earth Satellites,"
  • "An Air Breathing Engine to Work at Mach Numbers Greater than M-5.0,"
  • "Cabin Conditioning Equipment for a Manned Satellite,"
  • "Scientific Instrumentation of Unmanned Earth Satellites,"
  • "The Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope as a Space Communicator," *
  • "Satellite Tracking by Optical Methods,"
  • "Space Navigation,"
  • "Minimum Propulsion for Soft Moon Landing of Instruments."


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

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