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Ben Evans

At Home in Space

The Late Seventies into the Eighties

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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.At Home in Space, the third book in the series, continues the story throughout the later Seventies and into the Eighties. It was a period of time characterised by great promise. Regular Soviet missions demonstrated that humanity could not only survive, but thrive, in a weightless environment, and the arrival of the Space Shuttle seemed to offer a more… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4419-8809-6
  • EAN: 9781441988096
  • Produktnummer: 10749852
  • Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 481 S.
  • Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.8 cm x D2.6 cm 824 g
  • Auflage: 2012
  • Abbildungen: 16 schwarz-weiße und 49 farbige Abbildungen
  • Gewicht: 824

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) and the most recent Foothold in the Heavens - The Seventies (2010), he has published numerous space and astronomy related articles in such journals as Spaceflight, Countdown, and Astronomy Now.

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