To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s
pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five
books – to be published annually – will explore this half century,
decade by decade, to discover how humanity’s knowledge of flying,
working and living in space has changed. Each volume will focus not
only upon the individual missions within ‘its’ decade, but also
upon the key challenges facing human space exploration at specific
points within those 50 years: from the simple problems of breathing
and eating in space to the challenges of venturing outside in a
pressurised spacesuit and locomotion on the Moon. The first volume of
this series will focus upon the 1960s, exploring each mission from
April 1961 to April 1971 in depth: from the pioneering Vostok flights
to the establishment of the first Salyut space station and from Alan
Shepard’s modest sub-orbital ‘hop’ into space to his triumphant
arrival at the Moon’s Fra Mauro foothills almost a decade later.
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ISBN
9780387790947
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Praxis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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