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."

FMI: www.xcor.com/library/aerospace-books.html