At home in space : the late seventies into the eighties / Ben Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Ben, 1976-

Series:

Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.

Springer-Praxis books in space exploration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

United States.

Astronautics--United States--History.

Astronautics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 481 p. 65 illus., 49 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, UK ; New York : Springer, in association with Praxis, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. At Home in Space, the third book in the series, continues the story throughout the later Seventies and into the Eighties. It was a period of time characterised by great promise. Regular Soviet missions demonstrated that humanity could not only survive, but thrive, in a weightless environment, and the arrival of the Space Shuttle seemed to offer a more economical and routine means of accessing the heavens. Living in space became truly international as astronauts from many nations lived and worked together on Soviet space stations and aboard the Shuttle. At the same time, however, relations between two key players in this drive to conquer the high ground of space - the United States and the Soviet Union - steadily declined from the high-watermark of Apollo-Soyuz to the nadir of Star Wars. This third volume charts the progress made in space during this pivotal phase of humanity's quest to explore the final frontier.

Contents:

Contents

Illustrations

Author's Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Unlikely partners

Chapter 2: A home after Apollo

Chapter 3: A tale of science, sickness and the Sun

Chapter 4: Red stars in the East

Chapter 5: Dreams and nightmares

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613351265

9781283351263

1283351269

9781441988102

1441988106