All About Satellites and Space Ships

Overview:

  • Title: All About Satellites and Space Ships
  • Author: David Dietz
  • Year: 1958
  • ISBN-10:
  • Publisher: Random House
  • Pages: [4]+164
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: All About Satellites and Space Ships
  • Notes:
    • On copyright page: "FIRST PRINTING", "Copyright, 1958" and LCCN.
    • "Illustrations by George Wilde" on jacket front flap, and "Sixteen-Page Photo Section with Drawings by George Wilde" on title page.
    • "Jacket illustration by H. Lawrence Hoffman" on jacket back flap.
    • "allabout books" and "28" on jacket front and spine.
    • No price on jacket or in book.
    • Publication date 1958-08-28 from contemporary review by Kirkus: "The evolution of the satellite from its origin as a firecracker through its various stages as a rocket, the theoretical concepts which underlie space travel, the mechanical devices employed, the prospects for future space travel, the problems involved, all are clearly and emphatically stated"