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The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration

By Colin Burgess

Book information

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781789144598, 1789144590
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
24 MB (25636686 bytes)
Pages
368\0
Library
SoftArchive
Time added
2023-07-16 23:22:00

Description

The Greatest Adventure explores the past, present, and future of the space race. The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the twentieth century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery, and exploration, as astronauts and cosmonauts were launched on space missions of increasing length, complexity, and danger. The Greatest Adventure traces the events of this extraordinary period, describing the initial string of Soviet achievements: the first satellite in orbit; the first animal, man, and woman in space; the first spacewalk; as well as the ultimate US victory in the race to land on the moon. The book then takes the reader on a journey through the following decades of space exploration to the present time, detailing the many successes, tragedies, risks, and rewards of space exploration.

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