Rocket age: the race to the moon and what it took to get there

"Rocket Age traces the history of spaceflight innovation from Robert Goddard's early experiments with liquid fuel rockets, through World War II and the work of Wernher von Braun and his German engineers, on to the postwar improvements made by Sergei Korolev and his team in the Soviet Union...

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1. Verfasser: Morgan, George D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Guilford, Connecticut Prometheus Books [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:"Rocket Age traces the history of spaceflight innovation from Robert Goddard's early experiments with liquid fuel rockets, through World War II and the work of Wernher von Braun and his German engineers, on to the postwar improvements made by Sergei Korolev and his team in the Soviet Union, and culminating with the historic Moon walk made by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. From designers to engineers, and even communication specialists and the builders who assembled these towering rockets, hundreds of thousands of people worked on getting humans to the Moon, yet only a few have been recognized for their contributions. Author George D. Morgan sets the record straight by shining a light on these forgotten figures of space travel"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:vi, 227 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781633886360

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