The Pre-astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space by Craig Ryan
The Pre-astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space
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Craig Ryan
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The Pre-astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space

Craig Ryan

344 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative tense medium-paced
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Mostly U.S. Air Force and Navy officers, among them doctors, physicists, meteorologists, engineers, astronomers, and test pilots, they struggled with meager budgets, bureaucratic politics, and one another. It is a thrilling story of tremendous per...

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