The book, High Frontier: The United States Air Force and Military Space Program comes from a collection of books celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United States Air Force in 1947.  This edition chronicles the development of the military space program in the years following World War II.  The American military space program utilized the technology around the infamous German V-2 World War II era rocket as they advanced the military space program.  There were many early champions of the American Space program including the Army Air Forces General Hap Arnold who wrote in November, 1945 that a spaceship "is all but practicable today" and could be built "within the foreseeable future".  Both the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics and the Army Air Force vied to take the lead in developing rocket technology but in the end it was the air force that tested most of the rockets during the 1950s.  The early efforts included devloping rockets to carry nuclear and tactical warheads, as well as, various types of satellites.  Eventually at the dawn of the 1960s, manned space flight became possible and it too became a priority.  With the formation of N.A.S.A., the development of spaceships to carry man into space became their top priority.  The development of rockets to carry nuclear and tactical warheads, as well as, satellites continued to be the main priority of the military space program.  The main sections of this book are as follows: 1) Military Space Missions Defined; 2) Manned Military Space Flight; 3) Military Space Operations (1958-1991); 4) Launch Operations, Ground Control, Organization and Management and 5) Desert Storm, the Air Force and the Military Space Program in a Changing World.  This book includes 22 vintage black and white photographs and a number of illustrative diagrams.  This book is 80 pages and is in excellent condition.  The author is Curtis Peebles.  Edition published in 1997.