Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel. Revised and Enlarged Edition.
by LEY, Willy
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New York, The Viking Press, 1957. 8vo. xvi,+ 528 pp.+ plates. Publ. cloth, with dustwrapper. One of several editions of this classic on the early exploaration of space. First published as ”Rockets” in 1944 it was soon expanded into ”Rockets and Space Travel” and in 1951 to the present title. This is the third printing of the 1957 edition, which is expanded with ”Sputnik Data”.Willy Ley (1906-69) became the great popularizer of the German rocketry movement in the 1920s, and was one of the founders of the important Verein für Raumschiffahrt in 1928. He moved to the United States in 1935, where he continued his work as an influential popular science writer, taking a special interest in rocketry and space flight.
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- Centralantikvariatet (SE)
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- Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel. Revised and Enlarged Edition.
- Author
- LEY, Willy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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