Art by Jack Coggins for the book “Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships” by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt. New York: Random House, (1951).
THE STATION IN SPACE
“As spherical space-station hurtles round Earth in its orbit, mechanics fuel-up rocket ship for return journey. Station would be rotated so that cradles and launching racks would be on shady side.”
“Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships” was one of the most popular space books of the 1950s. It has black-and-white and color illustrations throughout illustrating chapters on the earliest rockets, the development of sophisticated rockets and jet aircraft, their uses in warfare, and American experiments since WWII and concluding with a look at the future of space travel.
Art by Jack Coggins for the book “Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships” by Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt. New York: Random House, (1951).
THE STATION IN SPACE
“As spherical space-station hurtles round Earth in its orbit, mechanics fuel-up rocket ship for return journey. Station would be rotated so that cradles and launching racks would be on shady side.”
“Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships” was one of the most popular space books of the 1950s. It has black-and-white and color illustrations throughout illustrating chapters on the earliest rockets, the development of sophisticated rockets and jet aircraft, their uses in warfare, and American experiments since WWII and concluding with a look at the future of space travel.