Prelude to the Space Age, The Rocket Societies 1924-1940
Entry/Object ID
L1983.22.1
Description
Prelude to the Space Age, The Rocket Societies 1924-1940 began with an international space travel movement and societies were formed. They published journals, held lectures, and fired some of the first liquid fueled rockets. Their efforts were primitive, but they succeeded in educating the public and training future Space Age rocketeers like Wernher von Braun of Germany, and Sergei P. Korolev of the U.S.S. R. The author draws from interviews with these pioneers letters and other sources to relate the formative years. He is winner of the 1966 Robert H. Goddard Essay Award, a co- winner of the 1970 award and presented numerous papers.