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)
“Mars as seen from PHOBOS, visual angle 60°. Scientists are setting up instruments on the innermost of the two satellites. PHOBOS, ten miles in diameter, and distant 5800 miles from its planet, circles it in less than half a day. The ship, based on a station in space, would be well adapted for landing on places with little or no atmosphere.”
“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)
“Mars as seen from PHOBOS, visual angle 60°. Scientists are setting up instruments on the innermost of the two satellites. PHOBOS, ten miles in diameter, and distant 5800 miles from its planet, circles it in less than half a day. The ship, based on a station in space, would be well adapted for landing on places with little or no atmosphere.”
“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.