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- PublisherHarper & Row
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0060212705
- ISBN 13 9780060212704
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Into Space : A Young Person's Guide to Space
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Book Description Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 10426931-6
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Into Space : A Young Person's Guide to Space
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Into Space; a young person's guide to space
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very good. xiii, [1], 129, [1] pages. Illustrations (plates and figures). Index. Ink note on fep. Scuff inside front cover. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 - 19 March 2008) was a British science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid popularizer of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularizing science. Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946-47 and again in 1951-53. He was knighted in 1998 and was awarded Sri Lanka's highest civil honor, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005. An extensively revised edition of Clarke's Going Into Space (1954), with new chapters on space stations and "harvests of space" (benefits incurred from space exploration to date). After the war he attained a degree in mathematics and physics from King's College London. He worked as assistant editor at Physics Abstracts. Clarke then served as chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1951 to 1953. One of his most important contributions may be his idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal telecommunications relays. He advanced this idea in a paper published in Wireless World in October 1945. Clarke also wrote a number of non-fiction books describing the technical details and societal implications of rocketry and space flight. The most notable of these may be Interplanetary Flight, The Exploration of Space and The Promise of Space. In recognition of these contributions, the geostationary orbit 22,000 mi above the equator is officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union as a Clarke Orbit. On 20 July 1969 Clarke appeared as a commentator for CBS for the Apollo 11 moon landing. Revised Edition. Presumed first printing. Seller Inventory # 74970
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