Aiming for the Stars The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age

Name: Aiming for the Stars The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age
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ISBN: 9781560988335

ISBN-10: 1560988339

ISBN-13: 9781560988335

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Authors: Tom D. Crouch

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Aiming for the Stars explores the motivations, goals, trials, and triumphs of the people who pioneered space exploration from the sixteenth century to the modern era. Tom D. Crouch describes space travel's emergence from the pages of science fiction into the laboratories of twentieth-century rocketeers. Linking individual obsessions and achievements with the political events and social currents that surrounded them, the book offers a wide-ranging view of the attempt to explore the final frontier.

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 8/17/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments


Prologue: Spaceport!



A Plurality of Worlds



The Call of the Cosmos



Raketenrummel



An American Dreamer



Vergeltungswaffe!



"Our Germans"



Selling Space Flight



Fellow Travelers



This New Ocean



Racing to the Moon



The Giant Leap: Gemini



The Apollo Era



Men from Earth



Salyut and Skylab: Rooms with a View



The Shuttle Era



At Home in Orbit



Robot Servants and Explorers



Outward Bound


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index