ADVANCED PROPULSION TECHNIQUES by Penner, S. S. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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ADVANCED PROPULSION TECHNIQUES

by Penner, S. S. (ed)

New York, 1961: Pergamon Press, Inc., 255 pages, $10.00

The papers in this proceedings were presented at the August 1960 AGARD meeting on Combustion and Propulsion. The book is divided into six parts entitled "Power Generation," "Nuclear Propulsion," "Ion Propulsion," "Magnetofluid-Dynamic Propulsion," "Round-table Discussion," and "Popular Surveys." Subjects considered by individual authors include nuclear rockets (Project Rover), the nuclear ramjet propulsion system, nuclear turbojets, ion propulsion, acceleration and neutralization in electrostatic propulsion systems, electrical propulsion with colloidal materials, the magnetic induction plasma engine, magnetohydrodynamic propulsion, and spacecraft propulsion.

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