Chris Gainor
To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
Chris Gainor · 2008
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Offers a comprehensive history of humans' attempts to travel into space from medieval times to the present, exploring how the Chinese originally experimented with rockets in the Middle Ages, who pioneered the earliest rockets, why many early rocket attempts failed, how the American competitive spirit landed the first man on the moon, and other related topics.
Book details
- Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN
- 9780803222090
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