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Rockets and People Volume I (NASA History Series. NASA Sp-2005-4110)

Author : Boris Chertok
Publisher : Military Bookshop
ISBN 13 : 9781780398310
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Rockets and People Volume I (NASA History Series. NASA Sp-2005-4110) written by Boris Chertok and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program, but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoir of academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. Chertok began his career as an electrician in 1930 at an aviation factory near Moscow. Thirty years later, he was deputy to the founding figure of the Soviet space program, the mysterious "Chief Designer" Sergey Korolev. Chertok's 60-year-long career and the many successes and failures of the Soviet space program constitute the core of his memoirs, Rockets and People. In these writings, spread over four volumes (volumes two through four are forthcoming), academician Chertok not only describes and remembers, but also elicits and extracts profound insights from an epic story about a society's quest to explore the cosmos. This book was edited by Asif Siddiqi, a historian of Russian space exploration, and General Tom Stafford contributed a foreword touching upon his significant work with the Russians on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Overall, this book is an engaging read while also contributing much new material to the literature about the Soviet space program.

Red Cosmos

Author : James T. Andrews
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603443606
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Red Cosmos written by James T. Andrews and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the space race captured the world?s attention, K. E. Tsiolkovskii first conceived of multi-stage rockets that would later be adapted as the basis of both the U.S. and Soviet rocket programs.?Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry, this provincial scientist was even sanctioned by Stalin to give a speech from Red Square on May Day 1935, lauding the Soviet technological future while also dreaming and expounding on his own visions of conquering the cosmos. Later, the Khrushchev regime used him as a "poster boy" for Soviet excellence during its Cold War competition with the United States. Ironically, some revisionists have since pointed to such blatant promotion by the Communist Party in an attempt to downplay Tsiolkovskii?s scientific contributions.?James T. Andrews explores the complexities of this man to show that Tsiolkovskii was much more than either a rocket inventor or a propaganda tool. He was a science popularizer, novelist, technical inventor, and visionary, whose science fiction writings included futuristic drawings of space stations long before they appeared on any engineer?s drawing board.Mining a myriad of Russian archives, Andrews produces not only a biographical account but also a study of Soviet technological propaganda, local science education, public culture in the 1920s and 1930s, and the cultural ramifications of space flight.

N-1 for the Moon and Mars

Author : Matthew Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989991407
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book N-1 for the Moon and Mars written by Matthew Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Red Rockets' Glare

Author : Asif A. Siddiqi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521897602
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Red Rockets' Glare written by Asif A. Siddiqi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program, situating the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within Russian and Soviet history.

Fundamentals of Rocket Propulsion

Author : DP Mishra
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351708414
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Rocket Propulsion written by DP Mishra and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book follows a unified approach to present the basic principles of rocket propulsion in concise and lucid form. This textbook comprises of ten chapters ranging from brief introduction and elements of rocket propulsion, aerothermodynamics to solid, liquid and hybrid propellant rocket engines with chapter on electrical propulsion. Worked out examples are also provided at the end of chapter for understanding uncertainty analysis. This book is designed and developed as an introductory text on the fundamental aspects of rocket propulsion for both undergraduate and graduate students. It is also aimed towards practicing engineers in the field of space engineering. This comprehensive guide also provides adequate problems for audience to understand intricate aspects of rocket propulsion enabling them to design and develop rocket engines for peaceful purposes.

Rocket Men

Author : Robert Kurson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812988728
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Rocket Men written by Robert Kurson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers. “Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy.”—Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Artemis By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the Moon by President Kennedy’s end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden launch, sending the first men in history to the Moon—in just four months. And it would all happen at Christmas. In a year of historic violence and discord—the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago—the Apollo 8 mission would be the boldest, riskiest test of America’s greatness under pressure. In this gripping insider account, Robert Kurson puts the focus on the three astronauts and their families: the commander, Frank Borman, a conflicted man on his final mission; idealistic Jim Lovell, who’d dreamed since boyhood of riding a rocket to the Moon; and Bill Anders, a young nuclear engineer and hotshot fighter pilot making his first space flight. Drawn from hundreds of hours of one-on-one interviews with the astronauts, their loved ones, NASA personnel, and myriad experts, and filled with vivid and unforgettable detail, Rocket Men is the definitive account of one of America’s finest hours. In this real-life thriller, Kurson reveals the epic dangers involved, and the singular bravery it took, for mankind to leave Earth for the first time—and arrive at a new world. “Rocket Men is a riveting introduction to the [Apollo 8] flight. . . . Kurson details the mission in crisp, suspenseful scenes. . . . [A] gripping book.”—The New York Times Book Review

Rock and Roll in the Rocket City

Author : Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781421423142
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Rock and Roll in the Rocket City written by Sergei I. Zhuk and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In so doing, he demonstrates the influence of Western cultural consumption on the formation of a post-Soviet national identity.

Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge

Author : Asif A. Siddiqi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813026275
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge written by Asif A. Siddiqi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on new Russian sources, Siddiqi's book reveals the truth about the Soviet space program to tell a technical, political, and personal history of the major Soviet initiatives. Photos & illustrations.

Into the Cosmos

Author : James T. Andrews
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 082297746X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Into the Cosmos written by James T. Andrews and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2011-09-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 changed the course of human history. In the span of a few years, Soviets sent the first animal into space, the first man, and the first woman. These events were a direct challenge to the United States and the capitalist model that claimed ownership of scientific aspiration and achievement. The success of the space program captured the hopes and dreams of nearly every Soviet citizen and became a critical cultural vehicle in the country's emergence from Stalinism and the devastation of World War II. It also proved to be an invaluable tool in a worldwide propaganda campaign for socialism, a political system that could now seemingly accomplish anything it set its mind to. Into the Cosmos shows us the fascinating interplay of Soviet politics, science, and culture during the Khrushchev era, and how the space program became a binding force between these elements. The chapters examine the ill-fitted use of cosmonauts as propaganda props, the manipulation of gender politics after Valentina Tereshkova's flight, and the use of public interest in cosmology as a tool for promoting atheism. Other chapters explore the dichotomy of promoting the space program while maintaining extreme secrecy over its operations, space animals as media darlings, the history of Russian space culture, and the popularity of space-themed memorabilia that celebrated Soviet achievement and planted the seeds of consumerism.

Energiya-Buran

Author : Bart Hendrickx
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038773984X
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Energiya-Buran written by Bart Hendrickx and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-05 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing book describes the long development of the Soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and the space agency’s plans to follow up the first historic unmanned mission. The book includes comparisons with the American shuttle system and offers accounts of the Soviet test pilots chosen for training to fly the system, and the operational, political and engineering problems that finally sealed the fate of Buran and ultimately of NASA’s Shuttle fleet.

The Mars Project

Author : Wernher Von Braun
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062278
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Mars Project written by Wernher Von Braun and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1953 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born scientist Wernher von Braun detailed what he believed were the problems and possibilities inherent in a projected expedition to Mars. Today von Braun is recognized as the person most responsible for laying the groundwork for public acceptance of America's space program. When President Bush directed NASA in 1989 to prepare plans for an orbiting space station, lunar research bases, and human exploration of Mars, he was largely echoing what von Braun proposed in The Mars Project.

Rockets and Revolution

Author : Michael G. Smith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803286546
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Rockets and Revolution written by Michael G. Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight. Between 1903 and 1953, Russia matured in radical and dramatic ways as the tensions and expectations of the Russian revolution drew it both westward and spaceward. European and American industrial capacities became the models to imitate and to surpass. The burden was always on Soviet Russia to catch up—enough to achieve a number of remarkable “firsts” in these years, from the first national rocket society to the first comprehensive surveys of spaceflight. Russia rose to the challenges of its Western rivals time and again, transcending the arenas of science and technology and adapting rocket science to popular culture, science fiction, political ideology, and military programs. While that race seemed well on its way to achieving the goal of space travel and exploring life on other planets, during the second half of the twentieth century these scientific advances turned back on humankind with the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile and the coming of the Cold War.

USSR.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book USSR. written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines

Author : George Paul Sutton
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781563476495
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines written by George Paul Sutton and published by AIAA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liquid propellant rocket engines have propelled all the manned space flights, all the space vehicles flying to the planets or deep space, virtually all satellites, and the majority of medium range or intercontinental range ballistic missiles.

Spaceflight

Author : Michael J. Neufeld
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536331
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Spaceflight written by Michael J. Neufeld and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today. Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than twelve years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon. In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Michael Neufeld offers a concise history of spaceflight, mapping the full spectrum of activities that humans have developed in space. Neufeld explains that “the space program” should not be equated only with human spaceflight. Since the 1960s, unmanned military and commercial spacecraft have been orbiting near the Earth, and robotic deep-space explorers have sent back stunning images of faraway planets. Neufeld begins with the origins of space ideas and the discovery that rocketry could be used for spaceflight. He then discusses the Soviet-U.S. Cold War space race and reminds us that NASA resisted adding female astronauts even after the Soviets sent the first female cosmonaut into orbit. He analyzes the two rationales for the Apollo program: prestige and scientific discovery (this last something of an afterthought). He describes the internationalization and privatization of human spaceflight after the Cold War, the cultural influence of space science fiction, including Star Trek and Star Wars, space tourism for the ultra-rich, and the popular desire to go into space. Whether we become a multiplanet species, as some predict, or continue to call Earth home, this book offers a useful primer.

The Soviet Reach for the Moon

Author : Nicholas L. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885609038
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Reach for the Moon written by Nicholas L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soviet Space Culture

Author : E. Maurer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230307043
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Space Culture written by E. Maurer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union itself.