- Year
- 1955
- By
- Liapunov, B. V.
- Published
- Moscow-Leningrad: Gosenergoizdat.
- Edition
- Russian. Second edition, softcover.
- Ciancone
- R131.
- Shelf
- L4
- Catalog
- Catalog D · Prelude to Sputnik
The second, expanded edition of Liapunov’s popular survey of rocket technology, printed in 10,000 copies. Five “stories” cover what a rocket is, Soviet powder rockets and rocket artillery, the rebirth of the rocket with liquid fuel, rockets in the national economy, and finally the road from fantasy to science, with sections on Tsiolkovsky and the other founders, the artificial satellite, and the extraterrestrial station. Liapunov’s earlier Rockets (1950) is also in this catalog.
