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- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 English 9783110610178
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 9783110606195
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Yale University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110654882
- Description
- 1 online resource (256 p.) : 19 b-w illus.
- Summary
- Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers At the dawn of the space age, technological breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of ingenuity and disturbances to a delicate global balance of power. In this short book, aerospace historian Roger D. Launius concisely and engagingly explores the driving force of this era: the race to the Moon. Beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 and closing with the end of the Apollo program in 1972, Launius examines how early space exploration blurred the lines between military and civilian activities, and how key actions led to space firsts as well as crushing failures. Launius places American and Soviet programs on equal footing-following American aerospace engineers Wernher von Braun and Robert Gilruth, their Soviet counterparts Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov-to highlight key actions that led to various successes, failures, and ultimately the American Moon landing.
- Uniform Title
- Reaching for the Moon (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Reaching for the Moon (Online)
- Subject
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Language (note)
- LCCN
- 10.12987/9780300245165
- OCLC
- ssj0002443927
- Author
Launius, Roger D.
- Title
Reaching for the Moon [electronic resource] : A Short History of the Space Race / Roger D Launius.
- Imprint
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Language
In English.
- Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)
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Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 English 9783110610178
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2019 9783110606195 ZDB-23-DEG
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Yale University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110654882
- Other Standard Identifier
10.12987/9780300245165 doi