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I N T E R N A T IO N A L
G E 0 P H Y S I C A L Y E A R
Launching of Artificial Satellites
FROM July 1957 until December 1958 the leading
nations are joining in many scientific experi-
ments, a combined effort known as the International
Geophysical Year. The most spectacular event will
be the launching into the upper atmosphere by the
U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. of the first of a number of
artificial satellites, paving the way to the establish-
ment of the first space-stations from which voyages
to the Moon and to other planets could be made.
In this topical book the staggering problems
affecti ng the construction and operation of such
space-stations are examined in language the layman
can understand. A few years ago •• Operation
Vanguard” (as the programme is called) would
have been thought impossible. Who knows what
the next few years will bring?
Jonathan Norton Leonard, a Harvard graduate,
has been Science Editor of the American magazine
Time for ten years. He is one of the few men who
were permitted to witness the U.S. experiments at
White Sands, New Mexico. He has watched the
detonation of atomic bombs and the flight of
rockets, visited hundreds of laboratories and talked
with leading rocket scientists and theorists.
The cover picture depicts on unmanned satellite circling 500
miles above the earth at 18,000 m.p.h. and, by remote control,
engaged in research and meteorological observation.
PAN Books 2nd Edition. A fascinating read and often sought after for reference reading about early space exploration.
In good preloved condition with the exception of minor age related colour change and a tiny stain that appears at the top of the first three pages.
Paperback. 192 pages.