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Rocket! How a toy launched the space age
By Maurer, Richard C.
- ISBN
- 978-0-51759-629-6
- Publisher
- New York : Crown Publishers, c1995.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1995
Gr 4-7 An interesting and informative introduction to the history of modern rocketry. After touching on the early use of rockets in warfare, Maurer discusses Robert Goddard and his pioneering work. He also gives due credit to Hermann Oberth, a Romanian contemporary of Goddard's, and to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Russian whose work preceded that of Oberth and Goddard. The book traces the devel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
