"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.