April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering
journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement,
Springer-Praxis is producing 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. “Tragedy and Triumph” focuses on
the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when relations between the United
States and the Soviet Union swung like a pendulum between harmony and
outright hostility. The glorious achievements of the shuttle were
violently arrested by the devastating loss of Challenger in 1986,
while the Soviet program appeared to prosper with the last Salyut and
the next-generation Mir orbital station. This book explores the
continued rivalry between the two superpowers during this period, with
each attempting to outdo the other – the Americans keen to build a
space station, the Soviets keen to build a space shuttle – and
places their efforts in the context of a bitterly divisive decade,
which ultimately led them into partnership.
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ISBN
9781461434306
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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