Publication Date
2003
Publication Place
Gainesville -
University Press of Florida, 2003.
Subject
Astronautics -- Soviet Union -- History., Space race -- History.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
527
Physical Dimensions
23 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!118900~!4890
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2003
Notes
Originally the first half of Challenge to Apollo, a single volume published: Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Div., Office of Policy and Plans, 2000., "First paperback printing 2003"--Title page verso., The Index starts on page 527 and runs to page 553, with pages 528-553 not carrying any numbering., Includes bibliographical references and index.. Originally the first half of Challenge to Apollo, a single volume published: Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Div., Office of Policy and Plans, 2000., "First paperback printing 2003"--Title page verso., The Index starts on page 527 and runs to page 553, with pages 528-553 not carrying any numbering., Includes bibliographical references and index.. 118900. xx, 527 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Sample Text
"Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge was originally the first half of Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974, a single volume published in 2000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the NASA History Series. The present volume includes chapters 1-11 (pages 1-516) of that book. Its companion volume, The Soviet Space Race with Apollo, includes the second half of the original publication"--Page ix.
İçindekiler
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Glossary -- Presage -- First steps -- Stalin and the rocket -- Sputnik -- Designing the first spaceship -- Organizing for the space program -- Gagarin -- Looking to the future -- Space politics -- "There are more things in Heaven and Earth ..." -- Three steps to the moon -- Bibliographic essay -- Index.
ISBN
081302627X, 9780813026275