Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership

Washington, DC: GPO, 1997. 23 cm, 383, illus., notes, glossary, bibliography, index, DJ in plastic sleeve, pencil erasure on front endpaper. The story of the U.S. Air Force (AF) in space, on its 50th anniversary as an independent branch of the Armed Services. Chapters: The Dawn of the Space Age; Before Sputnik: the AF Enters the Space Age, 1945-19 57; From Eisenhower to Kennedy: The National Space Program and the AF's Quest for the Military Space Mission, 1958-1961; The AF in the Era of Apollo: A DreamUnfulfilled; From the Ground Up: The Path from Experiment to Operations; Organizing for Space: The AF Commits to Space and an Operational Space Command, etc. Condition: very good, very good.

Keywords: Air Force History, Military Satellites, Global Positioning, NASA, Schriever, Project RAND, Space Command, Space Exploration, Ballistic Missiles

[Book #40352]

Price: $49.50

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