02706cam a2200397Ii 4500 596066 596066 1055264318 US-DLC 20200120112315.0 181003t20192019ctua b 001 0 eng d 2018950632 9780300230468 030023046X (OCoLC)1055264318 (OCoLC)1109457024 (OCoLC)1109958453 YDX eng rda YDX AU zo----- n-us--- e-ur--- Alfaisal Main Library TL799.M6 L386 2019 Launius, Roger D., author Reaching for the moon : a short history of the space race / Roger D. Launius ©2019 New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2019 vi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index Prologue: U.S./USSR Early Postwar Rocketry -- ONE: Sputnik Winter -- TWO: The First Race to the Moon -- THREE: Star Voyagers -- FOUR: The Decisions to Go to the Moon -- FIVE: The Game of One-Upmanship -- SIX: Creating the Moon-Landing Capability -- SEVEN: Realization -- EIGHT: Revelations At the dawn of the space age, technological breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of ingenuity and disturbances to a delicate global balance of power. In this short book, aerospace historian Roger D. Launius concisely and engagingly explores the driving force of this era: the race to the Moon. Beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 and closing with the end of the Apollo program in 1972, Launius examines how early space exploration blurred the lines between military and civilian activities, and how key actions led to space firsts as well as crushing failures. Launius places American and Soviet programs on equal footing-following American aerospace engineers Wernher von Braun and Robert Gilruth, their Soviet counterparts Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov-to highlight key actions that led to various successes, failures, and ultimately the American Moon landing Space flight to the moon History Space race History Astronautics and state United States History Astronautics and state Soviet Union History Outer space Exploration History History. fast Print books. local 4 lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2020-01-20 0 TL799.M6 L386 2019 AU00000000016008 2020-01-20 00:00:00 215.00 2020-01-20 BOOKS