This New Ocean: History of the First Space Age - Hardcover

Burrows, William E.

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ISBN 10: 0679445218 ISBN 13: 9780679445210

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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Book by Burrows William E

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A definitive history of the Space Age chronicles humankind's struggle to explore outer space, providing a fascinating look at the Soviet and American space programs from a political, scientific, and human perspective. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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art of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond.
        
The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and taking to space became a reality only because of the intense cold-war rivalry between the superpowers, with towering geniuses like Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolyov shelving dreams of space travel and instead developing rockets for ballistic missiles and space spectaculars. Now that Russian archives are open and thousands of formerly top-secret U.S. documents are declassified, an often startling new picture of the space age emerges:

the frantic effort by the Soviet Union to beat the United States to the Moon was doomed from the beginning by gross inefficiency and by infighting so treacherous that Winston Churchill likened it to "dogs fighting un

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679445218
• ISBN 13: 9780679445210
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 784