Eagle Book of Rockets and Space Travel was publish around the time that
John F Kennedy was pledging to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
The prediction in this book places that event between 1968 and 1969, so was not
too bad a guess, but they continued to predict that we would be on distant planets
prior to 2000. If only the pace of development had kept up...
Original Price : Unknown
Published by : Longacre Press Limited in 1961
Edited by : John W.R. Taylor and Maurice Allward
Dimensions : 21.5cm x 26c.5m with 192 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Jet engines run on Helium for satellite re-positioning
- No obvious mention of Wernher von Braun
- Lacrosse - not the game, but a missile.
- Meet Space Dogs: Belka and Strelka.
| Contents | |
|---|---|
| Man in Space | Page 4 |
| So you want to be a Space-man? | 11 |
| These Men gave us Space Flight | 21 |
| How and Why? | 41 |
| Power for Space | 55 |
| Let's go into Space | 70 |
| Space-age Models | 74 |
| Rockets for War | 85 |
| Space Station Number One | 115 |
| Putting Space to Work | 125 |
| Laboratories in Space | 136 |
| Man on the Moon | 157 |
| Beyond the Moon | 169 |
| Index | 187 |
| Acknowledgements | 192 |