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Spaceflight : A Concise History /

The author presents a history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight in the twenty-first century. Spaceflight is one of the great human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satell...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neufeld, Michael J., 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Spaceflight dreams and military imperatives
  • The Cold War space race
  • Space science and exploration
  • A global space infrastructure
  • Astroculture : spaceflight and the imagination
  • Human spaceflight after the cold war
  • Epilogue : the past and future of spaceflight.