The Promise of Space
by Clarke, Arthur C
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- Hardcover
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
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CA$44.97CA$22.49
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. (1986) Space technology is erasing obstacles so effectively that what seemed impossible to one generation becomes elementary to the next. This book contains many new ideas from the author's inventive mind - the same mind that devised the concept behind the communications satellite. The book is divided into five sections. The first "Beginnings", is the story of manned and unmanned flights up to the present. The other four sections describe what is known and what we expect to learn from flights around the Earth, the Moon, The Sun, the Universe. 'The Promise of Space' - man's achievement over two decades are related to the enormous promise of the 1970's and beyond. Illustrated with 64 photographs and 25 drawings. List of illustrations provided. Illustrated endpapers. A clean bright book in an illustrated price-clipped dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Space Technology + Space Travel + Astrophysics + Astronautics + Outer Space NOISBN. Catalogs: Science.
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- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B1208
- Title
- The Promise of Space
- Author
- Clarke, Arthur C
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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