Rockets, Missiles, & Space Travel

Rockets, Missiles, & Space Travel by Willy Ley Third revised edition, 1957

Chapters:

1. The Beginnings of an Idea
2. The Decades of the Great Dreams
3. "The Rockets' Red Glare"
4. Prophets with Some Honor
5. The Battle of the Formulae
6. Success, Failure, and Politics
7. The Return of the war Rocket
8. Peenemunde
9. White Sands
10. The Rocket into Cosmic Space
11. The Shot around the World
12. The Spaceship
    

Space Race

Space Race, originally uploaded by Space Commander.

Tiros I - the First Weather Satellite

April 1, 1960 - Fifty years ago today - The United States weather satellite, Tiros I, is placed into orbit. The Television Infrared Observation Satellite I is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is the world's first weather observation satellite, providing proof that weather forecasting can be accurately performed in space. Its launching opens a new phase of mankind's activity in outer space.