All About Satellites and Space Ships
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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"