This gorgeous book on NASA´s glory days will inspire the astronaut in all of us
(LA Times Clippers)

Jules Verne´s space dreams began with a gun. A big one. In his 1865 sci-fi novel `From the Earth to the Moon,` Verne spins a yarn about the Baltimore Gun Club, a weapons society that built a massive cannon - the Columbiad space gun - which would launch three people, including a French poet, in...