- Year
- 1954
- By
- Leonard, Jonathan Norton
- Published
- New York: New American Library (Signet Key Books).
- Edition
- English. First paperback printing, wraps.
- Ciancone
- N/A.
- Shelf
- L3
- Catalog
- Catalog D · Prelude to Sputnik
Popular account of the coming space age by Time magazine’s science editor, from guided-missile test firings to the prospect of orbiting satellite stations and travel to other planets, in twenty-five brisk chapters. Signet Key paperback, first printing November 1954, reprinting the 1953 Random House hardcover.