Foothold in the Heavens
The Seventies
April 12, 2011 is the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis is producing a mini-series of books that reveals how humanity's knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century.Foothold in the Heavens focuses on the early 1970s, when we completed our first exploration of the Moon and established a real, long-term presence in orbit with the first space stations. It marked a transitional phrase between the heady days of the 1960s and efforts to make space travel more economical, more frequent and more routine in the later 1970s…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-6341-3
- EAN: 9781441963413
- Produktnummer: 8909700
- Verlag: Praxis
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 552 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.9 cm x D3.5 cm 895 g
- Auflage: 2010
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 895
Über den Autor
Ben Evans is an accomplished and experienced space writer ideally qualified to chronicle the epic story of human space exploration. In addition to writing five books for Springer-Praxis, including the first book in this series: Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and Sixties. He has published numerous space and astronomy related articles in such journals as Spaceflight, Countdown, and Astronomy Now.
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