Guide to Rockets, Missile and Satellites [and] Express to The Stars / Rockets in Action. Author: Newell, Homer E. Place: New York Publisher: McGraw Hill Date: 1958-1961 Description: Two volumes comprising: Guide to Rockets, Missile and Satellites. 1958. 54 pp. Illustrated with photographs, and diagrams by Anne Marie Jauss. Cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed by Newell on flyleaf in November 1958, also signed on title page. Express to The Stars / Rockets in Action. 1961. Foreward by Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Illustrated by Gustav Schrotter. Original cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed by Newell on flyleaf, December 1961 with high regard to California Congressman George Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. Homer E. Newell Jr. was NASA Assistant Director for Space Science. A professor of mathematics who had established his scientific reputation at the Naval Research Laboratory by expertise in sounding rockets for exploration of the Upper Atmosphere. During the golden era of the Webb Administration, he either controlled or influenced virtually all non-military unmanned space missions up to and beyond the lunar landing. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 319600
Guide to Rockets, Missile and Satellites [and] Express to The Stars / Rockets in Action. Author: Newell, Homer E. Place: New York Publisher: McGraw Hill Date: 1958-1961 Description: Two volumes comprising: Guide to Rockets, Missile and Satellites. 1958. 54 pp. Illustrated with photographs, and diagrams by Anne Marie Jauss. Cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed by Newell on flyleaf in November 1958, also signed on title page. Express to The Stars / Rockets in Action. 1961. Foreward by Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Illustrated by Gustav Schrotter. Original cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed by Newell on flyleaf, December 1961 with high regard to California Congressman George Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. Homer E. Newell Jr. was NASA Assistant Director for Space Science. A professor of mathematics who had established his scientific reputation at the Naval Research Laboratory by expertise in sounding rockets for exploration of the Upper Atmosphere. During the golden era of the Webb Administration, he either controlled or influenced virtually all non-military unmanned space missions up to and beyond the lunar landing. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 319600
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