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XIth International Astronautical Congress. Stockholm 1960. XI. internationaler astronautischer Kongress. XIe congès international d’astronautique. Proceedings. Published by the Organizing Committee of the Congress. With 390 Figures. 1-2.
ref. 50860Wien Springer-Verlag 1961. 8vo. XII 714 pp. folding table; VI 102 pp. Publ. printed cloth. Two volumes. Volume I: Main Session edited by Reuterswärd. Volume II: Small Sounding Rockets Symposium edited by Hjertstrand. A third volume containing the proceedings from The Third Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space was also published the same year. According to the foreword in volume I the proceedings of The Astrodynamics Colloquium and The Space Medical Symposium were to be published in forthcoming issues of the Swedish journal Astronautik. The main sessions covered in the first volume contained the inaugeral lecture by Sir Harrie Massey ”Scientific Research Using Space Vehicles” and 84 other contributions some abstract or title only distributed across ten different sessions: Planetary Atmosphere Environments Interplanetary Environment Medicine Navigation and Space Communications Guidance and Control Propulsion Space Projects Trajectories Vehicles and Power Supplies Economics and Miscellaneous. The congress in Stockholm gathered engineers and scientists from all around the world and among the many contributions can therefore be mentioned ”Results of Exploring Meteoric Matter with Instrumentation of Sputnik III and Space Probes” by T. N. Nazarova and ”Status Report on the U.S. Space Rocket Program” by Wernher von Braun. The latter mentions among other things the development of the Saturn rocket program which would become instrumental when the United States put astronauts on the Moon less than a decade later. hardcover
