This is a rare early space-age introductory book published in 1958 by Whittlesey House (McGraw-Hill). It came out the same year that the U.S. formed NASA—making it historically significant.
Length: ~54 pages
Audience: General readers (a “layman’s guide”)
Subjects covered:
Basic rocket science principles
Guided missiles and military applications
Early artificial satellites
Terminology of the emerging space field
It was written right at the dawn of the Space Age, just after Sputnik (1957) and during the earliest U.S. satellite programs.
