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Rockets and Revolution : a Cultural History of Early Spaceflight.

Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Michael G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 8 |a ""10. Stalinism and the Genesis of Cosmonautics""""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About Michael G. Smith"" 
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