[PDF.61kw] Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel

Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel

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 | #1917115 in Books |  2003-10-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.34 x1.38 x6.38l,1.94 | File type: PDF | 544 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A fantastic history|By Jackson R. Pope III|In a lot of thinking about the history of space in the American popular conception it ends with the 1969 Apollo moon landing and a win for the United States in the Space Race. The history since then, if considered at all, is seen as a footnote to this historic event and contains little of importance in itself.

Zimmerman's ex|From Publishers Weekly|In the aftermath of the space shuttle Columbia disaster, Americans may have forgotten that for a quarter-century men and women circled Earth in space stations for as long as a year at a time. Most of these astronauts were from Russia and t

Charged with the ever-present potential for danger and occasionally punctuated by terrible moments of disaster, the history of space exploration has been keenly dramatic. The recent disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia was a sad but certain reminder that space travel is an extraordinarily dangerous occupation. Oddly enough, it often takes a tragic accident to remind us that we still have a presence in space.

In the decades between triumph and tragedy we tend ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel   |  Robert Zimmerman. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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