April 12, 2011 was the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering
journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement,
Springer-Praxis has produced a mini-series of books that reveals how
humanity's knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown
in the last half century. "Partners in Space" focuses on the early to
late 1990s, a time in the post-Soviet era when relations between East
and West steadily - though not without difficulty - thawed and the
foundations of real harmony and genuine co-operation were laid for the
first time with Shuttle-Mir and the International Space Station. This
book explores the events which preceded that new ear, including the
political demise of Space Station Freedom and the consequences of the
fall of the Soviet Union on a once-proud human space program. It
traces the history of "the Partnership" through the often traumatic
times of Shuttle-Mir and closes on the eve of the launch of Zarya, the
first component of today's International Space Station.
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ISBN
9781461432784
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
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Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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