Space Flight : Satellites, Spaceships, Space Stations and Space Travel Explained
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. First printing (no statements as is correct). Hardcover. xvi+ 373 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with photographs, charts, and diagrams. Fine in edgeworn dust jacket. Published at the very dawn of the modern space era, a stimulating and informative account of space travel---its past, the then present, and future. The work touches on astrophysics, communications, geophysics, materials, space medicine and other fields. Keeping im mind that the book came out in 1958, there is a wealth of prescient data on such projects as space stations, small satellites, moon bases, ion and atomic rocket engines, and advanced research missiles. Fine / very good. Item #E35875
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