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Topic: Launch Magazine's History of Rockets & Model Rockets
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cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 10-23-2007 07:40 AM
   
Launch Magazine's History of Rockets & Model Rockets
by Mark Mayfield Launch Magazine heralds itself as "devoted to spaceflight, hobby rocketry, and consumer aerospace." Here the magazine's editor-in-chief tells the history of rockets and the models inspired by these out-of-this-world machines. More than 150 photos and illustrations, as well as expert text, cover such groundbreaking moments in space travel as the first manned spacecraft and the first moon walk; the many missions to Mars; and the journeys to Jupiter and Saturn to track their amazing weather patterns and mysterious moons. And back at home, we step outside into an American backyard as a father and son craft a model rocket... and send it soaring into the afternoon sky. - Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (November 2007)
- ISBN-10: 160239105X
- ISBN-13: 978-1602391055
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Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 10-23-2007 07:13 PM
Ohhh, good find. Looks like I'll be pre-ordering this title since model rockets are one of those hobbies that helped to really ignite (no pun intended) my deeper interest in space travel. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 10-24-2007 12:19 AM
Glad that to see one of my post is useful to someone!  |
E2M Lem Man
Member Posts: 846
From: Los Angeles CA. USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 10-30-2007 02:14 PM
This looks great and I can't wait to see it. There hasn't been a good history of the model rocket for the common man in a long time. |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 10-30-2007 02:47 PM
I understand Vern Estes may be working on his memoirs, so we might see something talking about the very early days and the industry side soon. Launch Magazine also has published some interviews of G. Harry Stine before his untimely death. But indeed we have yet to see something that brings it all together.I preordered my copy last week, so hopefully I'll get it once it comes out. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 05-14-2008 10:31 AM
New release date: March 9, 2009 and new Amazon.com listing. |
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