Wed, Sep 10, 2003
XCOR Opens Its Library
ANNie winner XCOR wrote us: "As part of our commitment to public
outreach and education, we are pleased to unveil our latest
web page addition: The XCOR Aerospace Reference Library."
The library is a categorized, searchable database of reference
books that XCOR has found useful. The focus of the
library is on liquid rocket engine design and space plane/lifting
body information; things relevant to the types of engines and
vehicles that XCOR is in the business of
designing and creating.
This library grew out of a request at the last Space Access
Society meeting for an expanded reccomended reading list. The
database has been initially populated with information from 52
books, all of them from our personal collection.
XCOR continued, "We know there are many still to be added, and
ask our friends to submit books they feel are worthy of inclusion
that we have left out. Keep in mind that the database is limited to
liquid fuel engines and lifting body technology, as well as general
engineering references and ethics/inspiration. You can email book
submissions to webmaster@xcor.com."
The rationale for inclusion:
"We have included notes with some books discussing why we find a
particular book valuable," XCOR told us. "We will be adding more
notes as time goes on."
Like it? Buy it... sometimes: As an Amazon.com affiliate, the
company also offers links to Amazon.com for each book, as long as
it has an ISBN number. They wrote, "We also have included URLs to
book-specific websites. A small portion of these books are over 40
years old and are mostly out of print. These tomes were largely
written by aerospace pioneers during the heyday of experimental
aircraft programs and rocket engine design. The information they
left us is still extremely relevant, so if interested, seek out
these excellent books at used bookstores and used book search
services. In the near future we hope to post a list of links to aid
in the search for these items."
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