Space Science and Astronomy: Escape from Earth
- ISBN-10
- 0025943103
- ISBN-13
- 9780025943100
- Pages
- 467
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1976
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Authors
- Thornton Page, Lou Williams Page
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