Author: FINGER Harold B. - James LAZAR - James J. LYNCH :
Title: A survey of space nuclear propulsion. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Atomic Energy Commission Washington D.C. Presentation to ( the ) 1st AIAA Annual Meeting , June 30 , 1964.
Description: .: Washington, National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), 1964, in-4°, 13 pp + 16 pp + (30) ills. ( graphs, pictures, designs) + 12 pp + (25)ills. + 32 pp + (27)ills. Bound in red buckram, title label on spine. Rare original edition of a report by NASA specialists on space nuclear propulsion. This report was presented at the first ever annual meeting of the AIAA - The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The AIAA was founded a year earlier ( in 1963) and was created out of a merger of the American Rocket Society (from 1930) and the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (from 1933). The report consists of four parts; a general introduction, appendix A on nuclear rockets; appendix B on electric thrustors ; power generation for electric propulsion ( appendix C). The three appendices are extensively illustrated. .

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