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MEN OF SPACE: Volume 4 by Shirley Thomas

MEN OF SPACE: Volume 4

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Pub Date: June 20th, 1962
Publisher: Chilton

This fourth volume in the series which this publisher inaugurated in 1960 presents eight new popular profiles of men who have broken new barriers in space research, development and exploration, among them astronomer Samuel Herrick, engineer John B. Pierce, Project Mercury Director Robert Gilruth, Nobel Prize winner William Shockley- for the transistor, Harrison Storms-designer of the X-15 rocket, Malcolm Ross who has made Strato- Lab balloon ascents for the Navy, and Jack Armstrong- engaged in advancing nuclear propulsion. The predecessors will have not the pace for this new addition and indicated its interest-particularly for a young adult audience.