TY - BOOK AU - Shelton W. R. AU - Webb J.E. TI - Man's Conquest of Space PY - 1968/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - National Geographic Society KW - UDC KW - 52 Астрономія. Астрофізика. Космічні дослідження. Геодезія N2 - Challenging the limitless ocean of space, 20th-century man confronts the most awesome of all frontiers. In the first technology have carried him away from his home planet toward supreme adventure. Man's Conquest of Space encompasses the whole thrilling pageant: from Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit earth, to the epic walks in space; from the first simple satellites, beeping their messages home, to the complex giants of today, whirling through the reaches of interplanetary space ER -