Spaceflight
Subtitle: A Concise History
Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Cambridge, USA
Language: eng
Format: e-book
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780262350440
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Space flight; Astronautics, history; Manned space flight
First sentence: For millennia, the heavens were the realm of the gods and mythological beings.
Table of contents: title: Series page; title: Title page; title: Copyright page; title: Series Foreword; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: Spaceflight Dreams and Military Imperatives; label: 2
title: The Cold War Space Race; label: 3
title: Space Science and Exploration; label: 4
title: A Global Space Infrastructure; label: 5
title: Astroculture: Spaceflight and the Imagination; label: 6
title: Human Spaceflight after the Cold War; title: Epilogue: The Past and Future of Spaceflight; title: Glossary; title: Further Readings; title: Index; title: About Author