All About Satellites and Space Ships

From ''DREAMS OF SPACE: A list of non-fiction children's books about spaceflight 1945-1975'' (DreamsOfSpace.NFShost.com):

• Primary audience, ages 0-10
• (1958) "Text covers the 1st two Sputnik launches, the planned X-15 tests, space stations, rocket theory, planned Moon landings and atomic powered space craft."
• (1962) "Heavily revised from the 1958 edition this takes advantage of advances in space flight by using lots of full page photographs."

• On copyright page: "FIRST PRINTING", "Copyright, 1958" and LCCN.
• "Illustrations by George Wilde" on jacket front flap, and "Sixteen-Page Photo Section with Drawings by George Wilde" on title page.
• "Jacket illustration by H. Lawrence Hoffman" on jacket back flap.
• "allabout books" and "28" on jacket front and spine.
• No price on jacket or in book.
• Publication date 1958-08-28 from contemporary review by Kirkus: "The evolution of the satellite from its origin as a firecracker through its various stages as a rocket, the theoretical concepts which underlie space travel, the mechanical devices employed, the prospects for future space travel, the problems involved, all are clearly and emphatically stated"