SPACEFLIGHT TECHNOLOGY by Gatland, K. W. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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SPACEFLIGHT TECHNOLOGY

by Gatland, K. W. (ed)

New York, 1960: Academic Press, 385 pages, $11.00

This proceedings contains the following contributions: "Britain's Place in Interplanetary Exploration," "The Economics of Spaceflight," "Commonwealth University Participation," "Canadian Facilities," "Solid Propellant Rockets for High-Altitude Sounding and their Economics," "Some Remarks on Woomera as a Space Vehicle Tracking and Launching Station," "General Review of a British Spaceflight Programme Based on Blue Streak," "The Performance of Nuclear Thermal Fission Rockets," "Astronautics at Armstrong Whitworth's," "Heating Problems of Entry into Planetary Atmospheres," "The Recovery of Earth Satellites," "An Air Breathing Engine to Work at Mach Numbers Greater than M-5.0," "Cabin Conditioning Equipment for a Manned Satellite," "Scientific Instrumentation of Unmanned Earth Satellites," "The Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope as a Space Communicator," "Satellite Tracking by Optical Methods," "Space Navigation," and "Minimum Propulsion for Soft Moon Landing of Instruments."

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