In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three d...

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1. Verfasser:	Benjamin, Marina (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Free Press 2004
Ausgabe:	1. paperback ed.
Schlagworte:	Astronautics / United States / History Astronautics / Social aspects Geschichte Gesellschaft Raumfahrt Weltbild USA
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Zusammenfassung:	In 1958, mankind's centuries-long flirtation with space flight became a torrid love affair. For a decade, tens of millions of people were enraptured -- first, by the U.S.-Soviet race to the moon, and finally, as America outstripped its rival, by Project Apollo alone. It is now more than three decades since the last man walked on the moon ... more time than between the first moonwalk and the beginning of World War II. Apollo did not, as had been promised by a generation of visionaries, herald the beginning of the Space Age, but its end. Or did it? Project Apollo, like a cannonball, reached its apogee and returned to earth, but the trajectory of that return was complex. America's atmosphere -- its economic, scientific, and cultural atmosphere -- made for a very complicated reentry that produced many solutions to the trajectory problem. Rocket Dreams is about those solutions ... about the places where the space program landed
Beschreibung:	The Sky's the Limit -- One Small Step -- Forever Roswell -- Space for Rent -- Aliens on Your Desktop -- Ground Control to Major Tom
Beschreibung:	IX, 242 S. 23 cm
ISBN:	0743255348 0743233433