The Road to Modern Rocketry: Launch Bases, Centers, Museums, Memorials, and Monuments

by Doug Gangler

In this riveting book, Doug Gangler brings alive the fast-moving yet intensive history of the modern rocket. Featured are forty-one rocket and space "attractions" spread over the five countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the United States - in which the story of the modern rocket occurred. Discussed are: --Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, American Robert Goddard, Austro-Hungarian-German Hermann Oberth, France's Robert Esnault-Pelterie,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0991517709
• ISBN13: 9780991517701
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Champion Books, LLC
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"