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Publisher: Blandford Press
Edition: 1976
Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 304 Acknowledgements included
ISBN: 0-7137-0756-9
Condition: Good, a nice copy, neat, tight, mellow, clean, pleasant, slight dust jacket wear; with foxing.
Description: April 1961 saw the first manned spacecraft launched from Baikonur in central Asia. It was followed by the first American launched from Cape Kennedy. Such is the pace of space progress that today many different types of spacecraft exist or are under development. Man stands at the threshold of fantastic new explorations deep into interplanetary space. Only now has it been possible to assess the achievement of man in space and this book presents in pocket format, but with the authority of a definitive encyclopedia, the story in text and pictures of the American and Russian space achievements so far. It also illustrates and assesses the next stage in space flight and covers the forthcoming Apollo project when men will walk upon the surface of the Moon.