Description

• First Edition [Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1968]; 338 pages inc index; white cloth, silver & purple titling to front board & spine, split at base of binding between pp16 & 17, an excellent copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, edges rubbed, 3cm tear at front corner, couple small 7mm closed tears at top
• Translated from the Russian by G. Yankovsky
• Includes works titled: The Spaceship; A High-Speed Train; To Astronauts; Reaching The Stratosphere
• Tsiolkovsky was a self-educated scientist who explored & predicted the possibilities of rocket science in the early 1900s