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Speeding into space
1958 :: BOOK
Children's picture book by Marie Neurath on how space travel might be achieved: escaping Earth's gravity, spiral courses, orbital speed, streamlining, dropping fuel tanks, weightlessness, spacewalks and jet-pistols, radio in space, a spinning wheel-shaped space station, landing by space-taxi, meteorite and heat protection, navigating to the Moon, conditions on the Moon, Mars and Jupiter, re-entry, and orbital timing for voyages to Mars and Jupiter. Text and pictures checked by Kenneth W. Gatland of the British Interplanetary Society. American edition (Chanticleer Edition) published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, New York.
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