La saga de l'espace

An illustrated overview of the history of spaceflight, from the speculations of Antiquity and Jules Verne to the year 1986. The book covers early military rockets, the pioneers (Tsiolkovsky, Goddard), the V-2, the East–West race from Sputnik onward, the Apollo lunar adventure, the Skylab, Salyut and Mir stations, the Space Shuttle and Europe's Ariane–Hermès programme, up to the Challenger disaster and projects for space colonisation. A "Témoignages et documents" section gathers source texts (Fontenelle, Jules Verne, Hergé, Tom Wolfe, 2001), a chronology and an index.