VICTORY OVER SPACE by Ducroq, A. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

VICTORY OVER SPACE

by Ducroq, A.

Boston, 1961: Little, Brown and Company, 264 pages, $4.95

A competent book dealing with the utilization of Earth satellites, tracking networks, satellite instrumentation and experiments, and the like. Sections are included on magnetic fields, cosmic rays, atmospheric composition and density, radiation belts, and electric fields. A chapter is devoted to stabilization and attitude control and another to atmospheric reentry and recovery. Other topics considered are manned satellites, lunar and interplanetary trajectories, astronautical objectives in the Solar System, and Mars and Venus trips.

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