Book ID: CBB525707885

Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race (2019)

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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 breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of ingenuity and disturbances to a delicate global balance of power. In this short book, aerospace historian Roger D. Launius concisely and engagingly explores the driving force of this era: the race to the Moon. Beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 and closing with the end of the Apollo program in 1972, Launius examines how early space exploration blurred the lines between military and civilian activities, and how key actions led to space firsts as well as crushing failures. Launius places American and Soviet programs on equal footing—following American aerospace engineers Wernher von Braun and Robert Gilruth, their Soviet counterparts Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov—to highlight key actions that led to various successes, failures, and ultimately the American Moon landing.

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Review Darina Volf (2021) Review of "Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race". Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy (pp. 145-147). unapi

Review Osnat Katz (2020) Review of "Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 603-604). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Burgess, Colin
Mieczkowski, Yanek
Zimmermann, Robert
Volland, Nicolai
Treadwell, Terry C.
Sparrow, Giles
Concepts
Space travel; space flight
Space research and exploration
Space programs
Astronautics
Science and politics
Cold War
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
North Korea
Germany
Europe
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Project Apollo (NASA)
United States Air Force (USAF)
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