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Author : Frank H. Winter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Prelude to the Space Age written by Frank H. Winter and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank H. Winter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Prelude to the space age : the rocket societies ; 1924 - 1940 written by Frank H. Winter and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Burrows
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375754857
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book This New Ocean written by William E. Burrows and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1999-11-05 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond. The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and taking to space became a reality only because of the intense cold-war rivalry between the superpowers, with towering geniuses like Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolyov shelving dreams of space travel and instead developing rockets for ballistic missiles and space spectaculars. Now that Russian archives are open and thousands of formerly top-secret U.S. documents are declassified, an often startling new picture of the space age emerges: the frantic effort by the Soviet Union to beat the United States to the Moon was doomed from the beginning by gross inefficiency and by infighting so treacherous that Winston Churchill likened it to "dogs fighting under a carpet"; there was more than science behind the United States' suggestion that satellites be launched during the International Geophysical Year, and in one crucial respect, Sputnik was a godsend to Washington; the hundred-odd German V-2s that provided the vital start to the U.S. missile and space programs legally belonged to the Soviet Union and were spirited to the United States in a derring-do operation worthy of a spy thriller; despite NASA's claim that it was a civilian agency, it had an intimate relationship with the military at the outset and still does--a distinction the Soviet Union never pretended to make; constant efforts to portray astronauts and cosmonauts as "Boy Scouts" were often contradicted by reality; the Apollo missions to the Moon may have been an unexcelled political triumph and feat of exploration, but they also created a headache for the space agency that lingers to this day. 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.
Author : Mark Shanahan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498528155
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Eisenhower at the Dawn of the Space Age written by Mark Shanahan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have established a norm whereby President Eisenhower's actions in relation to the dawn of the space age are judged solely as a response to the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite, and are indicative of a passive, negative presidency. His low-key actions are seen merely as a prelude to the US triumph in space which is largely bookended first by President Kennedy’s man-to-the-moon pledge in 1961, and finally by Neil Armstrong’s moon landing eight years later. This book presents an alternative view of the development of space policy during Eisenhower’s administration, assessing the hypothesis that his space policy was not a reaction to the heavily-propagandized Soviet satellite launches, or even the effect they caused in the US political and military elites, but the continuation of a strategic journey. This study engages with three distinct but converging strands of literature and proposes a revised interpretation of Eisenhower’s actions in relation to rockets, missiles and satellites: namely that Eisenhower was operating on a parallel path to the established norm that started with the Bikini Atoll Castle H-bomb tests; developed through the CIA's reconnaissance efforts and was distilled in the Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 which set a policy for US involvement in outer space that matched Eisenhower’s desire for a balanced budget and fundamental belief in maintaining peace. President Eisenhower was not interested in joining a “space race”: while national security underpinned his thinking, his space policy actions were strategic steps that actively sidestepped internecine armed forces rivalry, and provided a logical next step for both civilian and military space programs at the completion of the International Geophysical Year. In reassessing the United States’ first space policy, the book adds to the revisionism under way in relation to the Eisenhower presidency, focusing on the “Helping Hands” that enabled him to wage peace.
Author : Ivan Yefremov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410106858
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Andromeda written by Ivan Yefremov and published by . This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Yefremov (1907-1972) was a well-known Soviet scientist, a professor of paleontology and a talented writer of science fiction. "No writer did as much as Yefremov for science," wrote one reader, "and no scientist did as much as Yefremov for literature." Andromeda is a novel about the future of mankind. It depicts with truly fantastic scope the unparalleled bloom of science and technology and the rise of a new social order, and portrays the Universe in the so-called Era of the Great Circle, when Earth will have constant communication with space. Written in 1956, on the eve of the first attempts at space exploration - when the word "cosmonaut" still belonged exclusively to the domain of science fiction - the novel has long since become widely known throughout the world. It is symbolic that, on the day of the launching of the first Earth satellite, readers congratulated Yefremov on the dawning of the Era of the Great Circle.
Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wind from the Sun written by Arthur Charles Clarke and published by Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada. This book was released on 1972 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The food of the gods.--Maelstrom II.-- The shining ones.--The wind from the sun.--The secret.--The last command.--Dial F for Frankenstein.--Reunion.--Playback.--The light of darkness.--the longest science-fiction story ever told.--Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, esq.-- Love that universe.--Crusade.--The cruel sky.--Neutron tide.--Transit of earth.--A meeting with Medusa.
Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Prelude to Space written by Arthur Charles Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553900951
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Prelude to Foundation written by Isaac Asimov and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall—those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire . . . the man who holds the key to the future—an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.
Author : William E. Burrows
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307765482
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book This New Ocean written by William E. Burrows and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond. The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and taking to space became a reality only because of the intense cold-war rivalry between the superpowers, with towering geniuses like Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolyov shelving dreams of space travel and instead developing rockets for ballistic missiles and space spectaculars. Now that Russian archives are open and thousands of formerly top-secret U.S. documents are declassified, an often startling new picture of the space age emerges: the frantic effort by the Soviet Union to beat the United States to the Moon was doomed from the beginning by gross inefficiency and by infighting so treacherous that Winston Churchill likened it to "dogs fighting under a carpet"; there was more than science behind the United States' suggestion that satellites be launched during the International Geophysical Year, and in one crucial respect, Sputnik was a godsend to Washington; the hundred-odd German V-2s that provided the vital start to the U.S. missile and space programs legally belonged to the Soviet Union and were spirited to the United States in a derring-do operation worthy of a spy thriller; despite NASA's claim that it was a civilian agency, it had an intimate relationship with the military at the outset and still does--a distinction the Soviet Union never pretended to make; constant efforts to portray astronauts and cosmonauts as "Boy Scouts" were often contradicted by reality; the Apollo missions to the Moon may have been an unexcelled political triumph and feat of exploration, but they also created a headache for the space agency that lingers to this day. 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.
Author : Roger D. Lanius
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134960336
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Reconsidering Sputnik written by Roger D. Lanius and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also examines the formation of NASA, the race for human exploration of the moon, the reality of global satellite communications, and a new generation of scientific spacecraft that began exploring the universe. An introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Walter A. McDougall sets the context for Sputnik and its significance at the end of the twentieth century.
Author : Alexander C. MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300219326
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Long Space Age written by Alexander C. MacDonald and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NASA insider highlights the current and historic roles of private enterprise in humanity s pursuit of spaceflight"
Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258253721
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (537 download)
Download or read book Prelude to Space written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Compellingly Realistic Novel Of Interplanetary Flight.
Author : W. D. Kay
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483630
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Defining NASA written by W. D. Kay and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most observers would point to the 1969 Apollo moon landing as the single greatest accomplishment of NASA, yet prominent scientists, engineers, and public officials were questioning the purpose of the U.S. space program, even at the height of its national popularity. Defining NASA looks at the turbulent history of the space agency and the political controversies behind its funding. W. D. Kay examines the agency's activities and behavior by taking into account not only the political climate, but also the changes in how public officials conceptualize space policy. He explores what policymakers envisioned when they created the agency in 1958, why support for the Apollo program was so strong in the 1960s only to fade away in such a relatively short period of time, what caused NASA and the space program to languish throughout most of the 1970s only to reemerge in the 1980s, and, finally, what role the agency plays today.
Author : William J. Walter
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Space Age written by William J. Walter and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificently illustrated companion volume to the six-part PBS television series from the creators of Cosmos and Planet Earth. Space Age is a great human story, full of intrigue and global rivalries, secrecy, surprises, heroes and heroines, brilliance and bravado, huge risk and profound failure, and an increasing awareness of who we are and where we fit in the universe. Full-color photos and illustrations.
Author : David Lasser
Publisher : Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books
ISBN 13 : 9781896522920
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Conquest of Space written by David Lasser and published by Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lasser stands as one of the least-known but extraordinary pioneers of spaceflight. In 1930 he founded the American Interplanetary Society (AIAA) -- the same year he wrote this book -- the first book ever written in the English language to address the notion of spaceflight as a serious possibility. The book has not been in print since 1931 and yet it still stands up to scrutiny. The lucid style with which Lasser explains the basic concepts of rocketry make it a delight for anyone to read.
Author : Eugene Morlock Emme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Early History of the Space Age written by Eugene Morlock Emme and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 147323218X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)
Download or read book The Exploration of Space written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur C. Clarke was renowned for his science fiction, but his understanding of the subject was more than imagined. First published in 1951, this painstakingly-researched non-fiction book shows the depth of Clarke's expertise - he predicts the moon landings nearly two decades before they occurred, explores the potential use of satellites for communications more than ten years before Telstar 1 was put into orbit, and goes on to discuss the potential of space stations and long range orbital telescopes. Informed by interviews with the foremost scientists and engineers of the time, Clarke presents his thesis for how man will explore space . . . and the reader can measure his predictions against reality. 'He was a great visionary, a brilliant science fiction writer and a great forecaster. He foresaw communications satellites, a nationwide network of computers, interplanetary travel; he said there would be a man on the moon by 1970, while I said 1980' - and he was right' Sir Patrick Moore
