Sixth International Astronautical Congress: Summaries of Papers Presented at the Technical Sessions of the Sixth International Astronautical Congress Meeting Held at Copenhagen, August 1–6, 1955 Available to Purchase

THIS sixth Congress was perhaps the most momentous one in view of the fact that for the first time Russian delegates attended one of these gatherings, and that both the United States and the Soviet Union announced that satellite vehicles would be established in the near future. At the conclusion of the Congress many of the delegates still found it hard to believe that at last something practical was being done in astronautics.