FIRST INTO OUTER SPACE by Gordon, T. J. and J. Scheer reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

FIRST INTO OUTER SPACE

by Gordon, T. J. and J. Scheer

New York, 1959: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 197 pages, $3.95

The book is mainly concerned with the US Air Force Pioneer lunar probe project that resulted in a flight that soared over 70,000 miles from the Earth. Intimate details of the project, the people concerned with it, life in the blockhouse prior and during firing, etc., are provided.

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III