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The Coming of the Space Age

Arthur C. Clarke

First published 1967
Publisher Meredith Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiv+301
Price $6.95

Price confirmed on dust jacket upper corner of front flap. Lower corner of front flap has date 4/67.

Page Title Author(s) Type
5 Tracking Sputnik I E. Nelson Hayes Essay
15 Vanguard Kurt R. Stehling Essay
20 The First V-2 Walter R. Dornberger Essay
33 German Rocketry Wernher von Braun Essay
56 The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Frank Malina Essay
66 Editorial on Goddard New York Times Essay
67 Autopsia P. E. Cleator Essay
71 National Goals in Space Charles S. Sheldon Essay
93 Cristobal Columbo Ralph S. Cooper Essay
100 Autobiography (The Coming of the Space Age) K. E. Tsiolkovski Essay
105 Autobiography R. H. Goddard Essay
113 Autobiography Hermann Oberth Essay
127 The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space United Nations Essay
130 Space Commerce Donald Douglas, Jr. Essay
135 Everybody in Instant Touch Arthur C. Clarke Essay
147 The Space Technology of a Track Meet Robert S. Richardson Essay
158 Space Medicine Constantine D. J. Generales Essay
167 Amateur Rocketry American Rocketry Society Essay
175 Life Forms on Other Worlds Hermann Muller Essay
200 The Caves of Venus C. S. Lewis Short Fiction
202 Mars as the Abode of Life Percival Lowell Essay
208 The Martian Calendar M. Vertregt Essay
215 Beyond the Solar System Eugen Sänger Essay
221 A Vision of the Galaxy W. Olaf Stapledon Short Fiction
230 Interstellar Culture James Edson Essay
235 Direct Contact with the Stars Carl Sagan Essay
240 Extraterrestrial Linguistics S. Golomb Essay
244 Interplanetary Man W. Olaf Stapledon Essay
261 The Anthropology of Space Flight Krafft Ehricke Essay
268 UFO Leslie C. Peltier Essay
274 God in Space C. S. Lewis Essay
280 Space, God, and Science Fiction Sam Moskowitz Essay
293 Astronautics and Poetry Arthur C. Clarke Essay
298 The Fireflies John Glenn Essay
299 The Unattainable Richard Jefferies Essay
300 The Last Judgement J. B. S. Haldane Essay
vii Foreword (The Coming of the Space Age) Arthur C. Clarke Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Coming of the Space Age Cover 1967 Gollancz Hardcover Nonfiction xiv+301
The Coming of the Space Age Cover 1970 Panther Paperback Nonfiction 331
The Coming of the Space Age Cover 1970 Panther Paperback Nonfiction Chris Foss 332