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ONE OF WERNHER VON BRAUN'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS VON BRAUN, WERNHER and FREDERICK I. ORDWAY III. History of Rocketry and Space Travel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966.
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ONE OF WERNHER VON BRAUN'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS
VON BRAUN, WERNHER and FREDERICK I. ORDWAY III. History of Rocketry and Space Travel. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966. xi, 244 pp. 11 x 9 inches. Original pictorial spine and left side cover onlay over handcrafted mission leather, lettered in blind.
SIGNED and INSCRIBED with their individual space missions(s): "BUZZ ALDRIN, Gemini XII, Apollo XI; ALAN BEAN, Apollo 12, Skylab II (SL-3); WALT CUNNINGHAM, Apollo 7; CHARLES M. DUKE, Apollo 16; FRED HAISE, Apollo 13; EDGAR MITCHELL, Apollo 14" and "TOM STAFFORD, Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10, ASTP." All on the half title page.
A thousand years of rocketry is described with the lure of traveling to other worlds. The efforts of Tsiolkovsky, Goddard, Oberth, and others are described, and the rapid development of the A4 (V2) rocket by Germany during World War II. The steps to the modern age of space exploration are covered, including actual flights until 1966. Current plans for the then future Apollo moon landings are described. Extensively illustrated.
SIGNED and INSCRIBED with their individual space missions(s): "BUZZ ALDRIN, Gemini XII, Apollo XI; ALAN BEAN, Apollo 12, Skylab II (SL-3); WALT CUNNINGHAM, Apollo 7; CHARLES M. DUKE, Apollo 16; FRED HAISE, Apollo 13; EDGAR MITCHELL, Apollo 14" and "TOM STAFFORD, Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10, ASTP." All on the half title page.
A thousand years of rocketry is described with the lure of traveling to other worlds. The efforts of Tsiolkovsky, Goddard, Oberth, and others are described, and the rapid development of the A4 (V2) rocket by Germany during World War II. The steps to the modern age of space exploration are covered, including actual flights until 1966. Current plans for the then future Apollo moon landings are described. Extensively illustrated.