| Description |
224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Blueprint for leadership / Sally K. Ride, Alan Ladwig -- Spaceflight and the public mind / Edward O. Buckbee, Charles Walker -- Toward the moon, asteroids, and mars / William K. Hartmann -- The next 25 years in space / Thomas O. Paine -- Visions of the space generation : setting sights on new goals / Robert D. Richards, Todd B. Hawley, Peter H. Diamandis |
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The vision of spaceflight / Ben Bova -- Midsteps to the cosmos / Gerald S. Hawkins -- Dreams of space travel from antiquity to Verne / Frederick I. Ordway III -- The space ship as icon : designs from Verne to the early 1950s / Sam Moskowitz -- The rocket from earliest times through World War I / Frederick I. Ordway III -- Foundations of modern rocketry : 1920s and 1930s / Frank H. Winter -- Planning for spaceflight : 1880s to 1930s / Frank H. Winter -- Gathering momentum : Von Braun's work in the 1940s and 1950s / Ernst Stuhlinger -- Recollections of pre-sputnik days / Fred L. Whipple -- The Collier's and Disney series / Randy Liebermann -- The challenge of space : linking aspirations and political will / John M. Logsdon -- Project Appollo in retrospect / R. Cargill Hall -- Now that man has reached the moon, what next? / Wernher Von Braun, introduction by Ron Miller |
| Summary |
A history of flights from the imagination of ancient cave pictographs to the Apollo 11 moon landing |
| Analysis |
Outer space Exploration |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Astronautics and state -- United States.
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Astronautics.
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| Author |
Bova, Ben, 1932-
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Liebermann, Randy.
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Ordway, Frederick I., III (Frederick Ira), 1927-2014.
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| LC no. |
91003160 |
| ISBN |
1560980729 (alk. paper) |
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1560980737 (paperback) |
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