Space travel : a history / Wernher von Braun, Frederick I. Ordway III ; foreword by Frederick C. Durant III
Imprint
New York : Harper & Row, c1985
Edition
4th ed / rev. in collaboration with Dave Dooling
Descript
xi, 308 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
CONTENT
Lure of other worlds -- Thousand years of rocketry -- Pioneers of space travel -- Legacy of the pioneers -- Rocket returns to war -- Postwar military rocketry -- Probing the fringe of space -- Remote explorers -- Manned space flight -- Era of the space shuttle