To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780803222090
Subjects: Aerospace & aviation technology; Air forces & warfare; Space Exploration; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Astrophysics & Space Science; Mechanical; Modern - General; Science / Astrophysics & Space Science; World - General
Description: Offers a comprehensive history of humans' attempts to travel into space from medieval times to the present, exploring how the Chinese originally experimented with rockets in the Middle Ages, who pioneered the earliest rockets, why many early rocket attempts failed, how the American competitive spirit landed the first man on the moon, and other related topics.