SPACE AGE DICTIONARY by McLaughlin, C. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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SPACE AGE DICTIONARY

by McLaughlin, C. (ed)

Princeton (New Jersey), 1959: D. von Nostrand Co., Inc., 128 pages, $5.95

This is an illustrated, simplified space dictionary for the non-specialist, covering such fields as satellite technology, missiles, rocket propulsion, telemetry, radiation physics, guidance and control, and interplanetary flight. Vehicular data and sideviews are presented at the end of the book.


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