The Illustrated encyclopedia of space technology : a comprehensive history of space exploration / Kenneth Gatland, consultant and chief author ; with a foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Harmony Books, c1981. - 289 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. - A Salamander book .


CONTENTS

the space pioneers
opening the space frontiers
the space centres
man in space
military space systems
voices from the sky
weather patrol in space
observing planet earth
space science
probes to the moon
probes to the planet
man on the moon
the first space stations
handshake in orbit
the space shuttle
man on mars
the space factory
power stations in the sky
Base on the moon
Space cities
star ships
space diary
Spine title: Space technology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0517542587 : $24.95

80028533


Astronautics--Dictionaries.

TL788 / .I44 1981

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