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<p>The most up-to-date one-stop source of information, analysis, biographical profiles, and key primary documents on space exploration.</p> <h3>Children's Literature</h3> <p>Launius, historian for NASA, and an assembled a group of experts offers an historical perspective on the space program as part of the Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century series. The book begins with a chronology of events, beginning with Oberth's paper on rocket propulsion in 1923 through late 1997 when the space shuttle Atlantis docked with the space station Mir. Next, there are four highly readable chapters that offer an historical overview, discuss the race to the moon, recap scientific explorations, and discuss a permanent presence in space. In addition, there are 24 biographies, including American as well as Soviet astronauts and the some of the NASA officials and scientists behind the development of rocket technology. A sampling of 20 primary documents related to the development of the space program (including the U.S. Policy on Outer Space (1958), President Kennedy's paper which called the space program an urgent national need, and flight crew recollections of Apollo 11) along with a discu

Author

Launius, Roger D.

Publisher

Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313007941

Subjects

Engineering, Science, Astronomy