Launch Magazine's History of Rockets & Model Rockets

by Mark Mayfield

Launch Magazine heralds itself as devoted to spaceflight, hobby rocketry, and consumer aerospace. Here the magazine' s editor-in-chief tells the history of rockets and the models inspired by these out-of-this-world machines. More than 150 photos and illustrations, as well as expert text, cover such groundbreaking moments in space travel as the first manned spacecraft and the first moon walk; the many missions to Mars; and the journeys to Jupiter and Saturn to track their amazing weather patterns and mysterious moons. And back at home, we step outside into an American backyard as a father and son craft a model rocket... and send it soaring into the afternoon sky.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2007

About the author

I'm certain that I'm the only former editor-in-chief of House Beautiful magazine who ever wrote a book about NASA and spaceflight. We all have our quirks, you know.

I've served as the chief editor at House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Southern Accents and Art & Antiques magazines, in addition to creating my own magazine about space flight called LAUNCH. Before my magazine career, I was a writer/editor for USA Today.

I'm now serving as an adjunct journalism professor and editorial adviser to student media at the University of Alabama.