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The coming of the Space Age ; famous accounts of man's probing of the universe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Meredith Press, [1967]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Subjects:
Astronautics.
Table of Contents:
  • Tracking sputnik I / E. Nelson Hayes
  • Vanguard / Kurt R. Stehling
  • The first V-2 / Walter R. Dornberger
  • German rocketry / Wernher von Braun
  • The jet propulsion laboratory / Frank Malina
  • Editorial on Goddard / New York Times
  • Autopsia / P.E. Cleator
  • National goals in space / Charles S. Sheldon
  • Cristobal Columbo / Ralph S. Cooper
  • Autobiography / K.E. Tsiolkovski
  • Autobiography / R.H. Goddard
  • Autobiography / Herman Oberth
  • The peaceful uses of outer space / United Nations
  • Space commerce / Donald Douglas, Jr.
  • Everybody in instant touch / Arthur C. Clarke
  • The space technology f a track meet / Robert S. Richardson
  • Space medicine / Constantine D.J. Generales
  • Amateur rocketry / American Rocketry Society
  • Life forms in other worlds / Hermann Muller
  • The caves of venus / C.S. Lewis
  • Mars as the adobe of life / Percival Lowell
  • The martian calendar / M. Vertregt
  • Beyond the solar system / Eugene Sanger
  • A vision of the galaxy / W. Olaf Stapledon
  • Interstellar culture / James Edson
  • Direct contact witht he stars / Carl Sagan
  • Extreterrestrial linguistics / S. Golomb
  • Interplanetary man / W. Olaf Stapledon
  • The anthropology of space flight / Krafft Ehricke
  • UFO / Leslie C. Peltier
  • God in space / C.S. Lewis
  • Space, God, and science fiction / Sam Moskowitz
  • Astronautics and poetry / Arthur C. Clarke
  • The fireflies / John Glenn
  • The unattainable / Richard Jefferies
  • The last judgment / J.B.S. Haldane.