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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
The MIT Press,
[2018]
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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.