XIth INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS by Reuterswärd. C. W. P. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

XIth INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS

by Reuterswärd. C. W. P. (ed)

Vienna, 1961: Springer-Verlag (two volumes), 714 and 114 pages, respectively, $46.25

This is the final, corrected and enlarged edition of the volume published in 1960 which included only part of the papers presented at the XIth IAF Congress. This work is divided into two volumes, the first containing these papers, plus many others, together with selected abstracts, while the second is made up of contributions on the subject of sounding-rockets. Volume I is entitled Main Sessions, Volume II Small Sounding Rocket Symposium. Volume I's papers deal with planetary atmosphere environments, interplanetary environment, space medicine, navigation and space communications, guidance and control, propulsion, space trajectories, power supplies. etc.

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