num_pages: 784
description: This New Ocean is based on 175 interviews with Russian and American scientists and engineers; on archival documents, including formerly top-secret National Intelligence Estimates and spy satellite pictures; and on nearly three decades of reporting. The impressive result is this fascinating story--the first comprehensive account--of the space age. Here are the strategists and war planners; engineers and scientists; politicians and industrialists; astronauts and cosmonauts; science fiction writers and journalists; and plain, ordinary, unabashed dreamers who wanted to transcend gravity's shackles for the ultimate ride. The story is written from the perspective of a witness who was present at the beginning and who has seen the conclusion of the first space age and the start of the second.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age
titlecomplete: This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age
genres: American History, Engineering, Nonfiction, Astronomy, World History, History, Space, Technology, 20th Century, Science
ratings_count: 489
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History
publisher: Modern Library