Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit
The Eighties and Early Nineties
April 12, 2011, was 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.Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit, the fourth book in the series, explores the tumultuous events of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, a time when a reinvigorated Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union bred further distrust and intense competition between the two old foes. As the Shuttle sought to fulfill its mandate of regular, ro…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4614-3429-0
- EAN: 9781461434290
- Produktnummer: 12486653
- Verlag: Springer New York
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 632 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B17.1 cm x D3.5 cm 1'048 g
- Auflage: 2012
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 1048
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 (2009), Foothold in the Heavens - The Seventies (2010), and the most recent At Home in Space (2011). He has published numerous space and astronomy related articles in such journals as Spaceflight, Countdown, and Astronomy Now.
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