The Life and Death of a Satellite

The skies are filled with spacecraft of every form and description. How did they get there in the first place? What are they doing up there? In this lucid and lively account, Alfred Bester supplies the reader with facts and answers in laymans language.

Alfred Bester compellingly tells of the history of the men and machines, of the successes and failures. He describes the exciting drama of a spacelaunch-the tragedy of a misfire the triumph of a success.