The Exploration of SpacePocket Books, 1979 - 237 pagini Presents a nonscientific explanation of space exploration and a view of future life on other planets. |
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... scientific . No doubt the great engi- neering achievements of the Victorian age had pro- duced a feeling of optimism : so much had already been accomplished that perhaps even the bridging of space was no longer a totally impossible ...
... scientific . No doubt the great engi- neering achievements of the Victorian age had pro- duced a feeling of optimism : so much had already been accomplished that perhaps even the bridging of space was no longer a totally impossible ...
Pagina 27
... scientific but more adventurous -and also much more readable , for his First Men in the Moon is one of the very few interplanetary ro- mances which is also a work of literary art . On the purely technical side , it marks a retrogression ...
... scientific but more adventurous -and also much more readable , for his First Men in the Moon is one of the very few interplanetary ro- mances which is also a work of literary art . On the purely technical side , it marks a retrogression ...
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... scientific instruments to heights never before imagined.1 It would even be possible , Goddard concluded , to project a sufficient quantity of magnesium powder to the Moon for the flash to be observed by terrestrial telescopes . Goddard ...
... scientific instruments to heights never before imagined.1 It would even be possible , Goddard concluded , to project a sufficient quantity of magnesium powder to the Moon for the flash to be observed by terrestrial telescopes . Goddard ...
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Preface to the 1951 Edition | 11 |
Thirty Years Later | 15 |
The Shaping of the Dream | 21 |
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