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Insightful, instructive, and definitely worth the read.Greg Andres, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada As someone who has been teaching a course on space exploration for many years and has visited most of NASAs space centers, I have found plenty of new and valuable material in To a Distant Day . . . . I recommend the book to all who wish to know more about the conditions, people, and discoveries between 1890 and 1960 that led to the space age.Pangratios Papacosta, Physics Today Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese gunpowder experiments during the Middle Ages. Rockets as both weapons and entertainment are examined in this engaging history of how human beings acquired the ability to catapult themselves into space. Chris Gainors irresistible narrative introduces us to pioneers such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth, who pointed the way to the cosmos by generating the earliest wave of international enthusiasm for space exploration. It shows us German engineer Wernher von Braun creating the V-2, the first large rocket, which, though opening the

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Author

Gainor, Chris

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803245211

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Mathematics, Science

Updated

2026-03-24