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Blueprint for space : science fiction to science fact

Title
Blueprint for space : science fiction to science fact / edited by Frederick I. Ordway III and Randy Liebermann ; prologue by Michael Collins ; epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke ; [contributors, Ben Bova and others].
Publication
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [©1992]

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Additional Authors
  • Ordway, Frederick I., III (Frederick Ira), 1927-2014.
  • Liebermann, Randy.
  • Bova, Ben, 1932-2020
Description
224 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Summary
A history of flights from the imagination of ancient cave pictographs to the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Subject
  • Astronautics
  • Astronautics and state > United States
  • Astronautics and state
  • Astronautique
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • The vision of spaceflight / Ben Bova -- Midsteps to the cosmos / Gerald S. Hawkins -- Dreams of space travel from antiquity to Verne / Frederick I. Ordway III -- The space ship as icon : designs from Verne to the early 1950s / Sam Moskowitz -- The rocket from earliest times through World War I / Frederick I. Ordway III -- Foundations of modern rocketry : 1920s and 1930s / Frank H. Winter -- Planning for spaceflight : 1880s to 1930s / Frank H. Winter -- Gathering momentum : Von Braun's work in the 1940s and 1950s / Ernst Stuhlinger -- Recollections of pre-sputnik days / Fred L. Whipple -- The Collier's and Disney series / Randy Liebermann -- The challenge of space : linking aspirations and political will / John M. Logsdon -- Project Appollo in retrospect / R. Cargill Hall -- Now that man has reached the moon, what next? / Wernher Von Braun, introduction by Ron Miller.
  • Blueprint for leadership / Sally K. Ride, Alan Ladwig -- Spaceflight and the public mind / Edward O. Buckbee, Charles Walker -- Toward the moon, asteroids, and mars / William K. Hartmann -- The next 25 years in space / Thomas O. Paine -- Visions of the space generation : setting sights on new goals / Robert D. Richards, Todd B. Hawley, Peter H. Diamandis.
ISBN
  • 1560980729
  • 9781560980728
  • 1560980737
  • 9781560980735
LCCN
91003160
OCLC
  • ocm23386557
  • 23386557
  • SCSB-9287325
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library