The First Space Race Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
• File Size : 53,9 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

Offers an account of the competitive technological and political race between the United States and the Soviet Union and their leaders to launch satellites.

• Publisher : Nomad Press
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2018

On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong landed gently on the lunar surface and became the first person to set foot on another world. People around the world stopped what they were

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 48,7 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

Highlights the dramatic American-Soviet race to the Moon. Follows the development of space technology from the first rockets to the International Space Station. Brings to life the many triumphs and

• Publisher : Pomegranate
• File Size : 34,7 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 1999

The space race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful nations after World War II. For a half-century, they competed

• Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
• File Size : 24,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 August 2008

"Discusses the United States' role in the space race in the 1960s, including the beginning of NASA, early space exploration, and the first moon landing by American astronauts"--Provided by

• Publisher : Fourth Estate
• File Size : 55,8 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

From the author of 'The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' comes the shocking but true story behind the space race -- and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it.

• Publisher : Turtleback
• File Size : 35,6 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

A female world-record-setting pilot, Jerrie Cobb was recruited in 1959 to take the astronaut tests. She excelled, so the doctor who supervised the selection of NASA's Mercury astronauts recruited additional female

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 55,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2019

Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers At the dawn of the space age, technological

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 30,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 June 2021

A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how

• Publisher : JHU Press
• File Size : 37,7 Mb
• Release Date : 08 February 2022

A fascinating account of how the United States established the first global satellite communications system to project geopolitical leadership during the Cold War. On July 20, 1969, the world watched, spellbound, as