The Problem Of Interplanetary Voyages In The Works Of Native Scientists.

A transcript of a public lecture by the engineer B. V. Liapunov, delivered in the lecture hall of the Moscow city committee of DOSAV (the Voluntary Society for Aid to Aviation) and published jointly by the All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge and DOSAV. Edited by M. K. Tikhonravov, corresponding member of the Academy of Artillery Sciences. Approved for printing on 25 April 1951, in an edition of 82,000 copies, printed by the Pravda press.

The outline covers an introduction, the works of Tsiolkovsky (p. 5), the projects of F. A. Zander (p. 18), the ideas of Yu. V. Kondratyuk (p. 20) and a conclusion. It opens with a quotation from Academician S. I. Vavilov on the future problems of science and presents the scientific solution of interplanetary flight as a Russian achievement. The reading list names Tsiolkovsky’s Works on Rocket Technology (1947), Zander’s The Problem of Flight with the Aid of Reactive Vehicles (1947) and Kondratyuk’s The Conquest of Interplanetary Space (1947), all in this collection.