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Product Description
Clarke gets quite a few things right. After introducing the reader to all the basic challenges of space travel, most, if not all, of which are still applicable today, he proceeds to speculate widely about the future of space exploration. He rightly identifies the Moon as the most likely first target. He accurately predicts the usefulness of space stations, although he is overly optimistic about their proliferation and extent. And he accurately predicts the future of communications by means of relay satellites placed in geostationary orbits, as well as the importance of space exploration to astronomy. Beyond that point, however, his vision for the future fails to track with its subsequent history - he foresaw the use of ' bases; on the inner planets as coming far sooner.
First US edition, 1951, ( a second edition was published in 1959, 10 years before the moon landings)
Lacks the original dustjacket, uneven waer and fade to the denim blue cloth covers. Black and white interior illustrations, as well as a colour frontis of a Mars probe.
