- Year
- 1958
- By
- Merkulov, I. A.
- Published
- Moscow: Dosaaf Publishing House.
- Edition
- Russian. First edition, softcover.
- Ciancone
- N/A.
- Shelf
- L4
- Catalog
- Catalog D · Prelude to Sputnik
A short popular account of rocket flight by Igor Merkulov, issued by DOSAAF in a printing of 40,000. Its twelve short chapters cover the reactive engine, atomic energy in rocketry, rocket trains, Tsiolkovsky’s “ether island,” artificial-satellite projects, flight routes and schedules, and spaceships. Merkulov was one of the editors of the 1935 Jet Propulsion collection in Catalog A.