MAN’S CONQUEST OF SPACE

More than two dozen artificial satellites are circling the earth. And man has fulfilled his age-old dream. 

He has seen the earth ...

from outer space.

With the emergence of a new space age, our familiar world has acquired another exciting dimension; for the first time we can penetrate unknown secrets of the universe.

Irving Adler has gathered the most up-to-date data on the new satellites and what they tell us about the earth's shape, gravity, atmosphere, cosmic rays. 

He tells of the new discoveries about radiation, magnetism, electric current. 

Here is the full scientific report on man-made satellites—

from America's Explorer I and Russia's Sputnik I to the space flights of Major Yuri Gagarin, Commander Alan Shepard,

Captain Virgil I. Grissom, and Major Gherman S. Titov.

Seeing the Earth from Space is one of the first volumes in the new Signet Science Library, books by leading scientists and educators that present nontechnical explanations of the latest knowledge, developments, and discoveries in the field of science.