Escaping the Bonds of Earth : The Fifties and the Sixties /
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Formato: | eBook |
Lenguaje: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Praxis,
2009.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
Colección: | Space Exploration
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- From the East - The Vostok missions
- Monkeys to Men - The Mercury missions
- Space Spectaculars - The twin Voskhod missions
- Pushing the Envelope - The Gemini missions
- Disaster and Revival - The Soyuz 1 and Apollo 1 tragedies and aftermath
- To the Moon - The United States’ drive for the Moon, up to Apollo 14
- At Home in Space - Soviet direction changes from lunar exploration to long-term space stations
- Epilogue The progress of the human space program in the 1960s.