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FUNDAMENTALS OF NUCLEAR FLIGHT
A new era is just dawning in human history: the era of space flight and exploration. On all counts it seems likelythat this will be the most exciting time In mankind s long climb,from the Precambrian seas toward te distant stars. Nuclear energy, that atner Slazing discovery of our times, wiff. almost certainly play a major role in:this expansion. Nuclear energy and reaction propulsion seem linked indissokibly $ in the future, for the potentialities of one and the demands of the other are egually great. Modern man - has been given a difficult job, but he has also been given new tools to work with. The prime motivation for this book has been our desire to help sharpen the tools
of nuclear energy for the job of better pulsion. From the authors' preface.
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