Satellite!

Bantam Books paperback, published November 1957 by arrangement with Doubleday and Company, of the 1956 hardcover by Erik Bergaust (rocket and missile editor of American Aviation) and William Beller (managing editor of Aero Digest). Copyright 1956; the cover offers it at thirty-five cents and the back cover reads “First the Satellites!” This edition adds a “Prologue to This Edition,” dated Washington, D.C., July 1957, noting that a book scarcely a year old had to be updated for the U.S. satellite program, and sketching Project Vanguard’s difficulties.

Foreword by Professor Hermann Oberth, dated Huntsville, Alabama, 27 March 1956, followed by an Introduction and fourteen chapters, among them “Planning for the Orbiters,” “Long-Playing Rockets,” “What Is Space?,” “New Moon,” “Telegram from Outer Space,” “Observatories in the Sky,” “International Geophysical Year,” “Mice and Monkeys — Then Men,” “From Satellites to Satelloids,” “Survival in Space” and “Men Wanted.” The dedication reads “To Jean and Joan.” Line drawings of orbits and satellite designs are set in the text.