VISTAS IN ASTRONAUTICS - Volume 2, by Alperin, M. and H. F. Gregory (eds) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

VISTAS IN ASTRONAUTICS - Volume 2,

by Alperin, M. and H. F. Gregory (eds)

New York, 1959: Pergamon Press, Inc., 318 pages, $15.00

Topics discussed by various contributors are grouped into five subjects: space environment and vacuum research; control and propulsion of space vehicles; manned space flight; departure, space navigation and re-entry problems; and the Moon. There are 25 separate articles with such diverse titles as "Experiments from a Lunar Vehicle," "Cosmic Debris of Interplanetary Space," "A Description of a Propulsion Device which Employs a Magnetic Field as the Driving Force," "Utility of Manned Space Operations for Photogrammetry and for a Physics Laboratory in Space," "Flight Mechanics of Low-Thrust Spacecraft," and "Dust on the Moon."

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