Rocket Flight Engineering

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, 1965. 345 p.General engineering principles of rocket flight.The main object of this book is to direct discussion of rocket flight into serious channels and to free it from its former fantastic notions, which have, understandably but technically undesirably, prevented sober consideration by engineers busy with many other matters.The principles of rocket flight considered together here in part reflect known facts, but ones which are widely scattered in the literature and whose relation to rocket flight is often scarcely apparent at first sight.One of the major and essential purposes of this book is to collect as far as possible the material on hand for the designer. The sources that have been employed are conscientiously quoted. Where such references are not given, it is to be assumed that we have lines of thought which either are of general technical validity or have been developed by the author himself.