Kings of infinite space.
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Author / Creator: | Balchin, Nigel, 1908-1970. |
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Edition: | [1st ed. in the U.S.A.]. |
Imprint: | Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1968 [©1967] |
Description: | 264 pages 22 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3816160 |
Notes: | committed to retain 20170930 20421213 HathiTrust |
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Summary: | "Cambridge, England, physiologist, Frank Lewis, ... because of his work on Fatigue Deterioration is sent as a scientific observer to America, ready for her first manned lunar expeditions. He leaves behind Dr. Julian Parker, a young woman of hot allure along with considerable cool, and he goes there for the eighteen months work-up. The briefing and screening and training procedures are highly fascinating; so are the reactions of all around him (particularly the appealing Isa, astronaut Zenno's wife); so is his particular stress situation as he approaches his own commitment to go up, underlining the book's meaning and message that 'our technical skill has outrun our imagination' and perhaps our possibilities to accommodate the unknown."--Plot summary from Kirkus reviews. |
Other form: | Online version: Balchin, Nigel, 1908-1970. Kings of infinite space. [1st ed. in the U.S.A.]. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1968 [©1967] |
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