David Lasser, the founder of the American Interplanetary Society, stands as one of the least-known but extraordinary pioneers of spaceflight. In 1930 he wrote t... » 

David Lasser, the founder of the American Interplanetary Society, stands as one of the least-known but extraordinary pioneers of spaceflight. In 1930 he wrote this book, the first written in English to adress the notion of spaceflight as a serious possibility. The Conquest of Space has not been in print since 1931. «