This is a somewhat technical public-audience #science book published in 1955 about the exciting near-future prospect of artificial #satellites. Chapter XIII describes the challenges of sending spacecraft to the moon, #Mars, and Venus.
A fascinating reminder of the pre-Mariner state of knowledge. #space
@cosmicray Reminds me of reading the John Carter of Mars books (before the movie came out) and being super confused about ships powered by the 8th and 9th rays... until I came across some scientific works from before the Michelson–Morley experiment
@nomi For more science fiction based on old-fashioned physics and cosmology, I enjoyed Ted Chiang’s “Stories of Your Life and Others”