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Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit
Ben Evans
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Description for Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit
Paperback. This book explores the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1980s and early 1990s, with each attempting to outdo the other - the Americans keen to build a space station, the Soviets keen to build a space shuttle. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 631 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; TBX; TRP; TTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1073.
April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis is producing a mini series of books that reveals how humanity’s knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century.
“Tragedy and Triumph” focuses on the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union swung like a pendulum between harmony and outright hostility. The glorious achievements of the shuttle were violently arrested by the devastating loss of Challenger in 1986, while the Soviet program ... Read more
April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis is producing a mini series of books that reveals how humanity’s knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century.
“Tragedy and Triumph” focuses on the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union swung like a pendulum between harmony and outright hostility. The glorious achievements of the shuttle were violently arrested by the devastating loss of Challenger in 1986, while the Soviet program ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Series
Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration
Number of Pages
614
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461434290
SKU
V9781461434290
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About Ben Evans
Ben Evans is an accomplished and experienced space writer ideally qualified to chronicle the epic story of human space exploration. In addition to writing five books for Springer/Praxis, including the first book in this series: Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and Sixties (2009), Foothold in the Heavens – The Seventies (2010), and the most recent At Home in ... Read more
Reviews for Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit
From the reviews: “This large volume takes readers to the early 1990s. Evans provides very good details of people and events, but places much less emphasis on science, engineering, and space technology. The author’s intent was to emphasize the human and personal side of the many aspects of space exploration
not only of the Americans, but also of the Soviets ... Read more
not only of the Americans, but also of the Soviets ... Read more