“Are we alone in the universe?” is one of the oldest and most universal questions. For a century or more it has stimulated brilliant science fiction—and it’s now incentivizing real science and exploration. But we still lack evidence—indeed...
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who...