Aiming for the stars : the dreamers and doers of the space age
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書誌事項
Aiming for the stars : the dreamers and doers of the space age
Smithsonian Institution Press, c1999
- : pbk
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注記
Bibliography: p. 325-330
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Aiming for the Stars explores the motivations, goals, trials, and triumphs of the people who pioneered space exploration from the sixteenth century to the modern era. Tom D. Crouch describes space travel's emergence from the pages of science fiction into the laboratories of twentieth-century rocketeers such as Wernher von Braun, who masterminded Nazi rocket development and later became a key figure in the U.S. space program, and Sergei Korolev, an engineer whose successful launches became the foundation of Soviet Cold War policy. The book also explains the goals nad missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs and describes the 1986 Challenge disaster, the spacefaring adventurs of astronaut Shannon Lucid, and the fortunes of the Mir space station in the wake of glasnost. Linking individual obsessions and achievements with the political events and social currents that surrounded them, the book offers a wide-ranging view of the attempt to explore the final frontier.
目次
Chapter 1 Prologue: Spaceport! Chapter 2 1. A Plurality of Worlds Chapter 3 2. The Call of the Cosmos Chapter 4 3. Raketenrummel Chapter 5 4. An American Dreamer Chapter 6 5. Vergeltungswaffe! Chapter 7 6. "Our Germans" Chapter 8 7. Selling Space Flight Chapter 9 8. Fellow Travelers Chapter 10 9. This New Ocean Chapter 11 10. Racing to the Moon Chapter 12 11. The Giant Leap: Gemini Chapter 13 12. The Apollog Era Chapter 14 13. Men from Earth Chapter 15 14. Salyut and Skylab: Rooms with a View Chapter 16 15. The Shuttle Era Chapter 17 16. At Home in Orbit Chapter 18 17. Robot Servants and Explorers Chapter 19 18. Outward Bound
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