SOVIET SPACE SCIENCE by Shternfeld, A. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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SOVIET SPACE SCIENCE

by Shternfeld, A.

New York, 1959: Basic Books, Inc., 361 pages, $6.00

An outstanding non-technical to semi-technical book on satellite motions, launching, uses, design, etc., it covers as well manned space travel, observation of satellites, communications in space, landing techniques, artificial satellites of the Moon and planets, the Sun and comets, uses of satellites, and space law.


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