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18%OFFDominic Phelan (Ed.) - Cold War Space Sleuths: The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program - 9781461430513 - V9781461430513
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Cold War Space Sleuths: The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program

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Description for Cold War Space Sleuths: The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program Paperback. With fascinating personal accounts of an often forgotten aspect of the Cold War space race, this book tells the inside story of the amateur spies who monitored the Soviet space program during the Cold War-and who often outperformed the professionals. Editor(s): Phelan, Dominic. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TNKS; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 171 x 17. Weight in Grams: 554.
“Space Sleuths of the Cold War” relates for the first time the inside story of the amateur spies who monitored the Soviet space program during the Cold War. It is written by many of those “space sleuths” themselves and chronicles the key moments in their discovery of hidden history. This book shows that dedicated observers were often better than professionals at interpreting that information coming out of the USSR during the dark days of the Cold War. This book takes a unique approach to the history of Soviet spaceflight – looking at the personal stories of some of the researchers ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration
Condition
New
Weight
553 g
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461430513
SKU
V9781461430513
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About Dominic Phelan (Ed.)
Phillip Clark was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1950 and became interested in spaceflight after listening to the early NASA manned missions at school. He focused on Soviet spaceflight at the time of the Apollo 11 mission and began corresponding with Geoffrey Perry of the Kettering Group. Clark has an Open University (OU) degree in mathematics and computing, and pioneered ... Read more

Reviews for Cold War Space Sleuths: The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program
From the reviews: “This compilation of ten accounts … sheds light on how amateur watchers used open intelligence sources to shed light on the Soviet space program. Collectively, the writings help readers understand this realm of Soviet studies up to the early 1990s. … The accounts thus offer both insights and anecdotes but double as autobiographical sketches by combining ... Read more

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