First edition, second printing. xviii, 170pp, illustrated with photographs and drawings. Blue publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.8vo. Cloth lightly rubbed and rounded on corners and spine tips, faded along fore edge and over spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Aircraft designer and rocket propulsion expert Kenneth Gatland (1924-27) edits a series of essays on developing space vehicle technology, satellites and the international tensions inherent in space programmes. Hard to find title.
