A history of rockets from prehistoric times to the (then) present day, and of ideas about the possibilities of space travel past and present.

    Expanded from a series of articles in Colliers Magazine called "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!"

    Now a classic, this is the fundamental text for those seeking a "Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought." Working out of a detailed history of science, Lehrs reveals to the reader not only how science has been inescapably led to the illusions it holds today, but more importantly, how the reader may correct in himself these misconceptions brought into his world view through modern education.