SPACE FLIGHT: Volume 1, Environment and Celestial Mechanics by Ehricke, K. A. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

SPACE FLIGHT: Volume 1, Environment and Celestial Mechanics

by Ehricke, K. A.

Princeton (New Jersey), 1960: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 513 pages, $14.50

Sixth of the "Principles of Guided Missile Design" series (G. Merrill, ed), this excellent volume treats the history of the space flight concept; factors influencing the science; the question of utility; terrestrial, lunar and interplanetary probes; manned space operations; central force fields, vertical vehicle ascent; two and three body problems; and many phases of interplanetary orbits and trajectories.

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