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Rocketry:

Clauss, Francis J. (editor) . SURFACE EFFECTS ON SPACECRAFT MATERIALS. FIRST SYMPOSIUM
NY 1959. Held at Palo Alto May 12 and 13, 1959, sponsored by U.S. Air Force and Lockheed. 4to., 404pp., some charts and illustrations, red cloth. Institution name stamp on front end paper. Good, light wear, no DJ. (a16978)
$25.00Baker, E. H. et al. SHELL ANALYSIS MANUAL
Springfield 1968. NASA N68-24802. The analysis of shell type space craft structures. thick 4to., 804pp., illustrations, stapled wraps. VG, some minor soiling and light wear. (a23787)
$55.00Ketchum, Harold, Ken Durbin et al (editors). JOURNAL OF SPACE FLIGHT AND THE ROCKET NEWS - 10 ISSUES 1953 (complete year)
Chicago 1953. A newsletter published by the Chicago Rocket Society for the dissemination and information about flight into interplanetary space. (The first year of publication was 1949. ) Run of 10 issues, the complete run for 1956. Issues are in original wraps . 4to., about 15-18 leaves mimeographed on one side only, stapled in yellow printed wraps (issue for Jan 1953 was published with white cover). Published monthly (10 issues per year). Condition Very Good to Fine . no owner marks. Set of 10 issues. Highly unusual journal, ostensively scientific but bordering on science fiction; full of enthusiasm and optimism about space travel including many articles on UFOS. Articles as: Recent Developments in Foreign Rockets and Guided Missiles by Norman Bowman; The Juvenation of Mars by Wayne Proell; Seven Necessary Books for Amy Manned Space Flight by M. Conley. Early work on space flight. 10 issues: (a45478)
$100.00 Kinslow, Ray. . BUMPER-PROTECTED LAMINATED SPACECRAFT MAINWALLS
Cookeville 1971. Prepared by Tennessee Technological University for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 4to., 58pp., wraps. Address label on rear wrap. Word written in ink, and Discarded stamp on front. Good, light soiling. (a47737)
$40.00 (jet propulsion) . PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH AFOSR SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCED PROPULSION CONCEPTS VOLUME 1
1969. Sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research office of Aerospace Research. Held in Chicago, 1968. Hardcover.4to., 595pp., cloth. Depository library stamps on all fore-edges. VG. (a49373)
$45.00 (jet propulsion) . PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH AFOSR SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCED PROPULSION CONCEPTS VOLUME 1
1972. Sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Office of Aerospace Research. AFOSR-TR 71-3128. 4to., 509pp., illustrations, wraps. Depository library on front and on title page, small ink numbers on cover. VG plus. (a49377)
$45.00 Land, Norman S. and Harland F. Scholl . SCALED LUNAR MODULE JET EROSION EXPERIMENTS
Washington 1969. National Aeronautics and Space Administration TN D-5051. 4to., 42pp., wraps. A few institution names stamped on front. Mailing label affixed to rear wrap. VG. (a49459)
$45.00 Byers, David C. . PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS OXIDE-MAGAZINE CATHODES IN KAUFMAN THRUSTERS
Washington 1969 National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 4to., 27pp., wraps. Institution stams on front. Address label on rear. VG. (a49887)
$45.00 (rocketry) . EXPLORING IN AEROSPACE ROCKETRY. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ROCKETRY
Washington 1971. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 4to.,362pp., photo illustrations, wraps. Depository library stamps and a few numbers on front and on title page. Good, damp wrinkled. (a51590)
$60.00Gantmakher, E. R. and L. M. Levin. THE FLIGHT OF UNCONTROLLED ROCKETS
NY 1964 first edition. Pergammon. Translated by O.M. Blunn. Translation edited by W.G. Hughes. With a contribution by E.T.J. Davies. Hardcover. Octavo, 379pp., illustrations, original cloth. Institution bookplate, stamps on fore-edges, stamps and pocket on end paper; label at heel of spine and a small number stamp on lower margin of one page. Text clean; binding secure. VG, no DJ. (a59323)
$49.00 Lange, Oswasld H. and Richard J. Stein . SPACE CARRIER VEHICLES DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF LAUNCHING ROCKETS
NY 1963 Academic. Octavo, 317pp., hardcover. Institution stamps on fore-edges, label at heel of spine, number stamp at lower margin of one page. Good, text clean. no dj. (a61917)
$35.00 Penner, S. S. and B. P. Mullins . EXPLOSIONS, DETONATIONS , FLAMMABILITY AND IGNITION
London 1959 1st Pergamon. Part 1: Selected analytical studies on explosions, detonations, flammability limits, and ignition of gases and on heterogeneous burning; Part 2: Experimental and theoretical studies of flammability, ignitibility and explosion revention. Large octavo, 287pp., hardcover. Institution stamps on fore-edges, label at heel of spine, number stamp at lower margin of one page. Good, text clean, no DJ. (a61978)
$34.00Frank, Robert G. and William F. Zimmerman. MATERIALS FOR ROCKETS AND MISSILES
NY 1959 1st Macmillan. Hardcover. Octavo, 124pp., photo illustrations, cloth. Faint indication of of label on front. Good, inner hinges cracked, no DJ. (a62030)
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