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).
EXPLORERS UNLOAD EQUIPMENT ON TITAN. (Saturn, with its rings, is 760,000 miles away.)
“Their glass-fibred suits would easily withstand small outward pressure and would probably be heated by battery. “Walkie-Talkie,” weighing about 15 lbs. in World War II version, will be even smaller and more compact.”
“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).
EXPLORERS UNLOAD EQUIPMENT ON TITAN. (Saturn, with its rings, is 760,000 miles away.)
“Their glass-fibred suits would easily withstand small outward pressure and would probably be heated by battery. “Walkie-Talkie,” weighing about 15 lbs. in World War II version, will be even smaller and more compact.”
“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.