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9780894640391
There are 250,000 words of text listing events chronologically, illustrated with scale drawings of hundreds of spacecraft, both real & fictional. The artwork, drawings, & photos include unique images from rare books, novels & films, exclusive drawings of Soviet spacecraft & unpublished photos from NASA archives. The book is divided into six parts: (1) the archaeology of the spaceship (360 B.C. to 1783 A.D.), (2) the invention of the spaceship (1784-1899), (3) the experimenters (1900-1938), (4) World War II, (5) the golden age of the spaceship (1946-1960), (6) the dawn of the space age (1961 to the present). A bibliography & index are included.Ron Miller is the author of 'The Dream Machines: An Illustrated History of the Spaceship in Art, Science and Literature', published 1993 under ISBN 9780894640391 and ISBN 0894640399.
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