Ben Evans: Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit

Cover: 9781461434290 | Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit | The Eighties and Early Nineties | Evans

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Beschreibung

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 appeared to prosper with the last Salyut and the next-generation Mir orbital station. This book explores the continued rivalry between the two superpowers during this period, with each attempting to outdo the other ¿ the Americans keen to build a space station, the Soviets keen to build a space shuttle ¿ and places their efforts in the context of a bitterly divisive decade, which ultimately led them into partnership.

Über den Autor

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 Space (2011). He has published numerous space and astronomy related articles in such journals as Spaceflight, Countdown, and Astronomy Now.

Zusammenfassung

Continues the History of the Human Space Exploration miniseries by Evans, which commemorates over 50 years of humans in space

Explores the continued rivalry between the two superpowers during the Eighties to the early Nineties

Sets the human space program in its political, historical, and cultural setting

Offers a comprehensive, stand-alone survey of a significant portion of the human space story

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations.- Author's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1: "We deliver".- Chapter 2: A final Soviet salute.- Chapter 3: An age of innocence.- Chapter 4: Road to Peace.- Chapter 5: New beginnings.- Bibliography.- Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Raumfahrttechnik
Genre:	Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Space Exploration
Inhalt:	xvii 614 S. 100 s/w Illustr.
ISBN-13:	9781461434290
ISBN-10:	1461434297
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	86055514
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Evans, Ben
Hersteller:	Springer New York Springer US, New York, N.Y. Space Exploration
Maße:	240 x 168 x 34 mm
Von/Mit:	Ben Evans
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.2012
Gewicht:	1,044 kg

Artikel-ID: 106616799