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Description for 20030228
Paperback. First published by NASA in 2000 as "Challenge to Apollo", this volume, together with a second volume entitled "The Soviet Space Race with Apollo", presents a comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned space programmes covering a period of 30 years. Num Pages: 576 pages, 5 tables, 10 illustrations, 19 b&w photographs, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 786.
First published by NASA in 2000 as Challenge to Apollo , this volume, together with a second volume entitled The Soviet Space Race with Apollo , presents a comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned space programmes covering a period of 30 years, from the end of World War II, when the Soviets captured German rocket technology, to the collapse of their moon programme in the mid-1970s. The spectacular Soviet successes of Sputnik - the first Earth satellite (1957) - and Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space (1961) - shocked US leaders and prompted ... Read more
First published by NASA in 2000 as Challenge to Apollo , this volume, together with a second volume entitled The Soviet Space Race with Apollo , presents a comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned space programmes covering a period of 30 years, from the end of World War II, when the Soviets captured German rocket technology, to the collapse of their moon programme in the mid-1970s. The spectacular Soviet successes of Sputnik - the first Earth satellite (1957) - and Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space (1961) - shocked US leaders and prompted ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
786g
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813026275
SKU
V9780813026275
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Ref
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About Paperback
Asif Siddiqi is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000.
Reviews for 20030228
The essential reference work for Soviet/Russian space history...for anyone hoping to make sense of the too many 'truths' of Soviet Space history. - Journal of Military History; We finally have a definitive English-language history covering the first three decades of the Soviet Union's space program. Sixteen years in the making, Asif Siddiqi's amazingly detailed book provides a kaleidoscopic ... Read more