Research Catalog

Title

The Soviet space race with Apollo / Asif A. Siddiqi.

Author

Siddiqi, Asif A., 1966-

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2003.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

pages xx, 517-1005 : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The Soviet Space Race with Apollo was originally the second half of Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974, a single volume published in 2000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the NASA History Series. The present volume includes chapters 12-20 accompanied by tables and appendices (pages 517-977 of that book). Its companion volume, Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, includes the first half of the original publication."--Jacket.

Subject

• Astronautics > Soviet Union > History
• Space race > History
• Astronautics
• Space race
• Apollo-Programm
• Raumfahrt
• ASTRONAUTICS
• SPACE EXPLORATION
• HISTORIES
• Soviet Union
• Sowjetunion
• RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Originally the second half of Challenge to Apollo, a single volume published in 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 861-870) and index.

Contents

A New Beginning -- Tragedy -- Getting Back on Track -- Final Lap to the Moon -- Options -- Dreams Unfulfilled -- Ashes to Ashes -- Tomorrow Never Knows -- Orbital Launch Attempts in the Soviet Piloted Space Program, 1960-74 -- Mission Parameters for Selected Orbital Flights -- Nonorbital Launch Attempts Supporting the Soviet Piloted Space Program, 1951-74 -- Cosmonaut Selection Groups, 1960-74.

ISBN

• 0813026288
• 9780813026282

LCCN

2002032144

OCLC

• ocm50440972
• 50440972
• SCSB-1305869

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library