- Year
- 1955
- By
- Sternfeld, Ari
- Published
- Moscow: Gostekhizdat.
- Edition
- Russian. First edition, softcover.
- Ciancone
- R133.
- Shelf
- L4
- Catalog
- Catalog D · Prelude to Sputnik
Issue 82 of the Scientific-Popular Library series, a slim 50-odd-page primer by Ari Sternfeld, printed in 100,000 copies. It opens with the legends of flight beyond the Earth and then covers the spaceship, life on board, the artificial satellite, and flights to the Moon, Mars, Venus and other bodies. Sternfeld enlarged it into From Artificial Satellites To Interplanetary Flights (1957), also in this catalog.



