The Exploration of Space by Arthur C. Clarke

My most favourite non fiction book that came from the pen of Arthur C. Clarke is the "The Exploration of Space" published in 1951. 

Autographed copy of the Exploration of Space

An Automatic Rocket Surveying Mars. A painting by Leslie Carr based on a drawing by R.A. Smith from The Exploration of Space by Arthur C. Clarke

Many of Clarke's predictions about spaceflight as outlined in this book have come true as this video clip produced by Apogee Books shows so remarkably well.

Sir Arthur C Clarke Tribute
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