- Year
- 1950
- By
- Gilzin, Karl
- Published
- Moscow: Oborongiz.
- Edition
- Russian. First edition, softcover.
- Ciancone
- R99.
- Shelf
- L4
- Catalog
- Catalog D · Prelude to Sputnik
A popular introduction by a Candidate of Technical Sciences, with a Tsiolkovsky portrait as frontispiece. Its five chapters cover the principle of direct reaction, thrust, power and efficiency, solid-propellant (powder) engines, and liquid-propellant engines, with a section on Tsiolkovsky’s work and on fuels. It closes with a chapter on the future of rocket engines. The introduction opens with the March 1946 Supreme Soviet session on the postwar five-year plan. Gilzin reissued it in 1954 as From Rocket To Spacecraft, also in this catalog.
