Dawn Of The Space Age.

Harry Harper, described on the title page as “First Air Reporter” and author of Man’s Conquest of the Air and The Evolution of the Flying Machine, and a member of the British Interplanetary Society. The title page states “Approved as a Non-technical Presentation by the Technical Advisory Committee of the British Interplanetary Society,” and the foreword is by Kenneth W. Gatland, Co-Founder of the Combined British Astronautical Societies. Printed by Purnell and Sons at Paulton (Somerset) and London, under the “Book Production War Economy Standard.”

Three parts: “The Story of the Rocket, and the Coming of Atomic Power” (23 chapters, from the release of atomic power and the history of the rocket to the German Raketenflugplatz, the V-2 and “Our British Astronautical Pioneers”); “Objectives of Space-Flight — the Moon, Mars, and Venus” (14 chapters, including Oberth’s solar mirror, Lowell and the Martian controversy); and “Design and Construction of Vessels for the Navigation of Space” (19 chapters on fuels, the cellular step principle, landing on the Moon, space suits, rocket mail and the passenger-carrying rocket). A list of illustrations follows the contents.