Insightful, instructive, and definitely worth the read. Greg Andres, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

As someone who has been teaching a course on space exploration for many years and has visited most of NASA s space centers, I have found plenty of new and valuable material in To a Distant Day. . . . I recommend the book to all who wish to know more about the conditions, people, and discoveries between 1890 and 1960 that led to the space age. Pangratios Papacosta, Physics Today

Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the...