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
    

Can Man Explore the Moon?

"here, a famous artist shows his idea of the equipment needed for moon exploration."

From the Natural Museum of Natural History: a painting by A. Leydenfrost
(The Mystery of Other Worlds Revealed, 1952)