Clara de Montfier
Subtitle: a moral tale : with original poems : in three volumes
By: respectfully inscribed to the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Greville, by Elizabeth Anne Le Noir .....
Contributors: Andrews, Reuben, former owner; Garrison, C., former owner
Publisher: Printed for the Author, by A.M. Smart, and sold by Messrs. Rivington's ...
Published: 1808
Place of publication: Reading
Language: eng
Description: In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades since the last man walked on the moon ... more time than between the first moonwalk and the beginning of World War II. Apollo did not, as had been promised by a generation of visionaries, herald the beginning of the Space Age, but its end. Or did it? Project Apollo, like a cannonball, reached its apogee and returned to earth, but the trajectory of that return was complex. America's atmosphere -- its economic, scientific, and cultural atmosphere -- made for a very complicated reentry that produced many solutions to the trajectory problem. Rocket Dreams is about those solutions ... about the places where the space program landed.