Rockets, missiles, and space travel.
Subtitle: The up-to-tomorrow story of rocket development and space travel prospects
Edition: Rev. and enl. ed.
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Rockets (Aeronautics)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 489-520.
First published in 1944 under title: Rockets.
Table of contents: title: Forward; label: Chapter 1
title: The Beginnings of an Idea
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 2
title: The Decades of the Great Dreams
pagenum: 27; label: Chapter 3
title: "The Rockets' Red Glare"
pagenum: 50; label: Chapter 4
title: Prophets with Some Honor
pagenum: 82; label: Chapter 5
title: The Battle of the Formulae
pagenum: 105; label: Chapter 6
title: Success, Failure and Politics
pagenum: 131; label: Chapter 7
title: The Return of the War Rocket
pagenum: 163; label: Chapter 8
title: Peenemunde
pagenum: 197; label: Chapter 9
title: White Sands
pagenum: 245; label: Chapter 10
title: The Rocket into Cosmic Space
pagenum: 290; label: Chapter 11
title: The Shot around the World
pagenum: 322; label: Chapter 12
title: The Spaceship
pagenum: 362