Aviation Week & Space Technology, Volume 135, No. 22, December 2, 1991

82 pages. Illustrations (most in color). Cover has some wear and soiling. Complimentary copy sticker on front. This is one of the issues from their 75th Anniversary year. Aviation Week & Space Technology, often abbreviated Aviation Week or AW&ST, is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network. The weekly magazine is available in print and online, reporting on the aerospace, defense and aviation industries, with a core focus on aerospace technology. It has reputation for its contacts inside the United States military and industry organizations. The publication is sometimes informally called "Aviation Leak and Space Mythology" in defense circles. The magazine was first published in August 1916 and changed to its current title in January 1960. Other titles the magazine has held include Aviation & Aircraft Journal (1920-1921), Aviation (1922-1947), Aviation Week (1947-1958), Aviation Week Including Space Technology (1958-1959). The cover story for this issue is Nuclear Propulsion for Space Travel by James Asker (pages 38-41, and part of 44). Other articles addressed: NASA, Aerospace, Air Transport, Avionics, Space Technology, and Aeronautical Engineering. Jim Asker retired in 2017 after almost three decades with Aviation Week & Space Technology, where he won numerous awards for his reporting and commentary. He directed Aviation Week's coverage of the Columbia space shuttle accident, which was recognized with a 2004 Jesse H. Neal Award, the trade press equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and was finalist in 2005 and 2012. And in 2006, Jim won Journalist of the Year honors from the Royal Aeronautical Society and has twice won a McGraw-Hill Corporate Achievement Award. Jim began covering space programs as a science reporter for The Houston Post, where he led the paper's prize-winning coverage of the Challenger shuttle accident and its aftermath and was a finalist in NASA's Journalist In Space program. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…