5050 Tracking sputnik I / E. Nelson Hayes -- Vanguard / Kurt R. Stehling -- The first V-2 / Walter R. Dornberger -- German rocketry / Wernher von Braun -- The jet propulsion laboratory / Frank Malina -- Editorial on Goddard / New York Times -- Autopsia / P.E. Cleator -- National goals in space / Charles S. Sheldon -- Cristobal Columbo / Ralph S. Cooper -- Autobiography / K.E. Tsiolkovski -- Autobiography / R.H. Goddard -- Autobiography / Herman Oberth -- The peaceful uses of outer space / United Nations -- Space commerce / Donald Douglas, Jr. -- Everybody in instant touch / Arthur C. Clarke -- The space technology f a track meet / Robert S. Richardson -- Space medicine / Constantine D.J. Generales -- Amateur rocketry / American Rocketry Society -- Life forms in other worlds / Hermann Muller -- The caves of venus / C.S. Lewis -- Mars as the adobe of life / Percival Lowell -- The martian calendar / M. Vertregt -- Beyond the solar system / Eugene Sanger -- A vision of the galaxy / W. Olaf Stapledon -- Interstellar culture / James Edson -- Direct contact witht he stars / Carl Sagan -- Extreterrestrial linguistics / S. Golomb -- Interplanetary man / W. Olaf Stapledon -- The anthropology of space flight / Krafft Ehricke -- UFO / Leslie C. Peltier -- God in space / C.S. Lewis -- Space, God, and science fiction / Sam Moskowitz -- Astronautics and poetry / Arthur C. Clarke -- The fireflies / John Glenn -- The unattainable / Richard Jefferies -- The last judgment / J.B.S. Haldane.