Space Flight: The Coming Exploration of the Universe (Golden Library of Knowledge)

Published 10 years before humans landed on the moon, people could only dream of what it might be like...
"Soon rockets will carry men up from Earth, out of the atmosphere for the first time. There are plans to construct big, permanent satellites, called space stations, where men can live and work in space. Probably most of the young people of today will live to see rockets land on the moon, and some will perhaps see pictures taken on the surface of Mars or Venus. For a long time men have dreamed of flight through space to other worlds of our solar system. So far, however, real space flight has not begun." Amazing artistic and scientific illustrations throughout!