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Problems of Flight by Jet Propulsion

Nineteen hundred and sixty-two will be the seventy-fifth year since the
birth of the great Soviet research scientist and talented engineer Fridrikh
Arturovich Tsander [Canders], who devoted his entire life to solving dif-
ficulties associated with interplanetary flight. He pursued throughout his
life the slogan "Forward to Mars". In the history of science, the name
Tsander will, along with our remarkable scientist K. E. Tsiolkovskii, re-
main associated with the development of rocket technology.

The first edition of Tsander's book "Problems of Flight with the Aid of
Jet Propulsion Machines" was published by the government aviation and
auto-tractor publishing house ONTI NKTP SSSR in 1932 and edited by
Tsander himself.

A collection of papers written by Tsander and edited by M.K. Tikhonravov
was published in 1947 by the Oborongiz publishing house.

The purpose of the present, second edition of papers by Tsander, pub-
lished on his seventy-fifth birthday, is to present in a single book all his
main papers on rocket technology and interplanetary flight; however, this
is not a complete collection of all his works.

An edition including all Tsander’s works will become possible only after
the decoding and studying of all his scientific papers. This is an extremely
difficult task, because Tsander used shorthand in his notes in order to save
time; this shorthand code was known only to him. Decoding his shorthand
is particularly difficult, since Tsander could use the Latvian, Russian and
German languages, which he knew fluently.