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).
“Braking down on the Moon, coming in tail first, after its flip-over in space, pilot eases rocket down gently on Moon’s scarred surface.”
“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).
“Braking down on the Moon, coming in tail first, after its flip-over in space, pilot eases rocket down gently on Moon’s scarred surface.”
“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.