Two works by generals critical of post-Sputnik US Space Age policy Author: Place: New York Publisher: Various publishers Date: 1958-1960 Description: Two volumes Gavin, Lt. Gen. James M. War And Peace In The Space Age. New York: Harper, 1958. Cloth in pictorial, price-clipped dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed in 1985 by Gavin on half-title to corporate lawyer Herbert B. Lazarus. Medaris, Major General John B., US Army, Ret., with Arthur Gordon. Countdown For Decision. New York: Putnam's, 1960. Illustrated. Original cloth in moderately worn dust jacket. Inscribed by Medaris on front pastedown to Stephen Feldman, later President of the Astronaut Memorial Foundation at the Kennedy Space Center. Foxing to edges of text block. Gavin as Chief of Army Research and Development in the 1950s, played a key role in promoting updated military technology, including the rockets of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Alabama, commanded by General Medaris with Von Braun as his leading light. Both Generals – and Von Braun – were frustrated by Washington’s failure to devote money and resources to placing the first satellite into orbit. The three men were together in Huntsville on the day in October 1957 when the shocking news came that the Russians had beat the US into space. In the hysteria that followed, Gavin stressed in his book the vital importance of Space as key to all American national security policy and insisted it was “absolutely vital” for the United States to forestall Russia in occupying the moon. He and Medaris agreed that the necessary technological push should be spearheaded by a unified military Space Command. Instead, the Eisenhower Administration chose to divide authority for future satellites and lunar probes between the Army, the other military services, and a new civilian National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When President Kennedy took office, Gavin was considered for the position of NASA Administrator –but instead was instead named Ambassador to France. Medaris’ and Von Braun’s proposed accelerated timetable for a lunar landing, a moon base, and an orbiting space station, was lost in the forest of Washington politics. Lot Amendments Condition: Good to very good. Item number: 319564
Two works by generals critical of post-Sputnik US Space Age policy Author: Place: New York Publisher: Various publishers Date: 1958-1960 Description: Two volumes Gavin, Lt. Gen. James M. War And Peace In The Space Age. New York: Harper, 1958. Cloth in pictorial, price-clipped dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed in 1985 by Gavin on half-title to corporate lawyer Herbert B. Lazarus. Medaris, Major General John B., US Army, Ret., with Arthur Gordon. Countdown For Decision. New York: Putnam's, 1960. Illustrated. Original cloth in moderately worn dust jacket. Inscribed by Medaris on front pastedown to Stephen Feldman, later President of the Astronaut Memorial Foundation at the Kennedy Space Center. Foxing to edges of text block. Gavin as Chief of Army Research and Development in the 1950s, played a key role in promoting updated military technology, including the rockets of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Alabama, commanded by General Medaris with Von Braun as his leading light. Both Generals – and Von Braun – were frustrated by Washington’s failure to devote money and resources to placing the first satellite into orbit. The three men were together in Huntsville on the day in October 1957 when the shocking news came that the Russians had beat the US into space. In the hysteria that followed, Gavin stressed in his book the vital importance of Space as key to all American national security policy and insisted it was “absolutely vital” for the United States to forestall Russia in occupying the moon. He and Medaris agreed that the necessary technological push should be spearheaded by a unified military Space Command. Instead, the Eisenhower Administration chose to divide authority for future satellites and lunar probes between the Army, the other military services, and a new civilian National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When President Kennedy took office, Gavin was considered for the position of NASA Administrator –but instead was instead named Ambassador to France. Medaris’ and Von Braun’s proposed accelerated timetable for a lunar landing, a moon base, and an orbiting space station, was lost in the forest of Washington politics. Lot Amendments Condition: Good to very good. Item number: 319564
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