Reviews for SPACE HANDBOOK: ASTRONAUTICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

The average rating for SPACE HANDBOOK: ASTRONAUTICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-24 00:00:00 Ellen Lorence In a time when Russia had just sent a couple of dogs in space, when speculative science-fiction reigned, when USA had not sent man to the moon - there was a Space Handbook by the RAND Corporation which tried to assess the feasibility of sending satellites in space, the rocket design and interplanetary travel! Fascinating to read the dry notes of the leading technical analysts of the day, where they tried to reduce speculation to a minimum and conduct a realistic evaluation of the promises of the space age (they had to present this work in front of the US Congress). Though reading this book is desert-mining! You have to stifle umpteen yawns to dig out a few informative nuggets!

Review # 2 was written on 2018-10-13 00:00:00 Andrew Koh Copyright 1959. It's interesting to read books like this from the dawn of the space age. This is outdated now, but at the time must have been important as a semi-technical overview of spaceflight.