Reaching for the High Frontier: American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84 - Softcover
Paperback Publisher: Praeger (1986) Language: English ISBN-10: 0275921506 ISBN-13: 978-0275921507
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"A well-written, timely, useful contribution to our understanding of the space program.... Rich source notes, appendixes, and an excellent bibliographical essay enrich the book's utility. Students and general readers."-Choice
?A well-written, timely, useful contribution to our understanding of the space program.... Rich source notes, appendixes, and an excellent bibliographical essay enrich the book's utility. Students and general readers.?-Choice
?Everyone interested in the U.S. space program should read Michael Michaud's Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84, both for enlightenment and for entertainment.... [The book] is a thorough accurate, and well-written history.... Michaud's fine book chronicles the origins and history of the pro-space movement up to 1984. It lays bare the shortcomings as well as the successes, the zany ideas and internecine warfare among various groups, and the admirable aspirations that motivate them.... Reaching for the High Frontier remains the best book yet written about the pro-space movement.?-Sky & Telescope
"Everyone interested in the U.S. space program should read Michael Michaud's Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84, both for enlightenment and for entertainment.... [The book] is a thorough accurate, and well-written history.... Michaud's fine book chronicles the origins and history of the pro-space movement up to 1984. It lays bare the shortcomings as well as the successes, the zany ideas and internecine warfare among various groups, and the admirable aspirations that motivate them.... Reaching for the High Frontier remains the best book yet written about the pro-space movement."-Sky & Telescope
?A well-written, timely, useful contribution to our understanding of the space program.... Rich source notes, appendixes, and an excellent bibliographical essay enrich the book's utility. Students and general readers.?-Choice
?Everyone interested in the U.S. space program should read Michael Michaud's Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84, both for enlightenment and for entertainment.... [The book] is a thorough accurate, and well-written history.... Michaud's fine book chronicles the origins and history of the pro-space movement up to 1984. It lays bare the shortcomings as well as the successes, the zany ideas and internecine warfare among various groups, and the admirable aspirations that motivate them.... Reaching for the High Frontier remains the best book yet written about the pro-space movement.?-Sky & Telescope
"Everyone interested in the U.S. space program should read Michael Michaud's Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84, both for enlightenment and for entertainment.... [The book] is a thorough accurate, and well-written history.... Michaud's fine book chronicles the origins and history of the pro-space movement up to 1984. It lays bare the shortcomings as well as the successes, the zany ideas and internecine warfare among various groups, and the admirable aspirations that motivate them.... Reaching for the High Frontier remains the best book yet written about the pro-space movement."-Sky & Telescope
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- PublisherPraeger
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0275921506
- ISBN 13 9780275921507
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages435
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Reaching for the High Frontier: American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84
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ISBN 10: 0275921506
ISBN 13: 9780275921507
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