The Atomic Rocket--a series of five papers in Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

L.R. Shepherd and A.V. Cleaver, The Atomic Rocket, a series of five papers in Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, September 1948-July 1949. All in original wrappers . Each issue bears the rubber stamp for the Osterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Weltraumforschung (Austrian Society for Space Research) as well as a neat ink annotation OgfW Bibliothek at upper left corner on the front wrapper. VG set. __+__ [Leslie Robert Shepherd (b. 1918) in 1949 with Val Cleaver he produced one of the first detailed papers on the application of nuclear energy to the problem of interplanetary flight, and followed this in 1952 with a paper on 'Interstellar Flight' --BIS website __+__ Includes: The Atomic Rocket I, September 1948, vol 7/5, pp 185-194; The Atomic Rocket 2, November 1948, vol7/6, pp 234-241 (as well as Olaf Stapledon Interplanetary Man? pp 213-231; The Atomic Rocket 3, January 1949, vol 8/1, pp 23-37; The Atomic Rocket 4, March 1949. vol 8/2, pp 59-70 (along with A.C. Clarke's The Dynamics of Space Flight pp 59-70; and lastly Note on Shielding of Atomic Rockets, July 1949, vol 8/4, pp 149-157 (along with A.C. Clarke Meteors as a Danger to Space-Flight).…