| Publication |
Great Britain, Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd, 1966.
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| Description |
xi, 244pBlack and Blue Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Ranges from ancient Babylonian and Greek concepts of the universe through the development of rockets by Chinese, Arabic, and medieval European experimentalists to today's plans for manned missions to the Moon, Mars and Venus.
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| Contents |
Introduction
Preface
The lure of the other worlds
A thousand years of rocketry
Pioneers of space travel
The legacy of the pioneers
The rocket returns to war
Postwar military rocketry
Probing the fringe of space
The remote explorers
Manned space flight
Bibliography
Index
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| Standard Number |
0690005881 Hb.
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