Xth INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS by Hecht, F. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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Xth INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS

by Hecht, F. (ed)

Vienna, 1960: Springer-Verlag, 946 pages (two volumes), $54.75

This two volume work contains the proceedings of the Xth IAF Congress held in London in 1959. Contributions are divided into general astronautics, physics of space flight and astrophysics, astronautical engineering, propulsion, artificial satellites, and space biology and medicine. Papers range from "Ionospheric Scintillations of Satellite Signals," "Tracking Objects within the Solar System using only Doppler Measurements" and the " `Green' Areas of Mars and Color Vision" to "Interplanetary Navigation," "Nuclear Rocket Missions and Associated Power Plants" and "Relativity Advances of the Perigee of Artificial Earth Satellities."


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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