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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This book offers a general review of all the projects and programs where NASA worked from 1958 till 1968. It constitutes a most suitable complement to the NASA Historical Data Book Volume I: Resources 1958-1968. This second volume in this series provides us with information about how the financial, human and technical resources described in the first volume were utilized. The documentation included contains all available lists of launchings, files with the characteristics of the space vehicles and descriptions of projects, as well as tables and charts of data dealing with various different subjects. The aim of this work is to become an information source which at the same time is precise and easily available as a reference book so as to efficiently help in the work of historians, specialists and researchers in general.

(Extracted (edited) from the preface.)

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-1: Launch Vehicles.
-2: Manned Spaceflight.
-3: Space Science and Applications.
-4: Advanced Research and Technology.
-5: Tracking and Data Acquisition.

-Notes.

-Notes on Sources.

-Appendix: NASA Organization Charts.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

Just like other official books published by NASA, this book turns out to be a must for all those researchers in astronautics who wish to have an available source for precise data about the activity of the United States space agency. As its aim is mainly to explain pure data, it does not have any personal opinions or value judgements. The whole of the projects that NASA worked in during the period 1958-68 are here described, distributed into five main areas. The book is interesting in a twofold aspect. On the one hand, it is a wonderful volume so that the connoiseur can refer to specific data during their research. On the other hand, it also is a useful report as it provides a very thorough general view of the NASA activity in these years for those readers who are not so familiar with this topic.