New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5 inches by 7.25 inches. 256 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and taped to boards. Ex-library with usual library markings. Follows advances in the design, construction, and use of missiles and rockets from the German experiments of the 1930's to contemporary and future space travel and describes international efforts to limit military arsenals. Kenneth Gatland (1924-1997), was a leading space flight theorist of the post-war years. His paper, Minimum Satellite Vehicles, written with A. M. Kunesch and A. E. Dixon, was credited with convincing the US armed forces that artificial satellites could be launched using existing technology. It was published in September 1951, at the inaugural Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, along with an equally definitive paper by T. R. F. Nonweiler on returning spacecraft to earth; both were reprinted in L J Carter's comprehensive book, Realities of Space Travel, in 1957. At 17 he joined the design staff of Hawker Aircraft Limited in Kingston, and worked during the war on development of Hurricane, Typhoon, and Tempest fighters. He will chiefly be remembered for his contributions to the literature of spaceflight. His first book, The Development of the Guided Missile, (1952) was immediately translated into Russian, and was followed by Space Travel (with Kunesch, 1953), Astronautics in the Sixties (1962), the four-volume Encyclopedia of Spaceflight (1967-75), and Encyclopedia of Space Technology (1981), each in turn a standard reference for its decade. More