April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis is producing a mini series of books that reveals how humanity's knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century.
"Tragedy and Triumph" focuses on the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union swung like a pendulum between harmony and outright hostility. The glorious achievements of the shuttle were violently arrested by the devastating loss of Challenger in 1986, while the Soviet program appeared to prosper with the last Salyut and the next-generation Mir orbital station. This book explores the continued rivalry between the two superpowers during this period, with each attempting to outdo the other - the Americans keen to build a space station, the Soviets keen to build a space shuttle - and places their efforts in the context of a bitterly divisive decade, which ultimately led them into partnership.
| ISBN: | 9781461434290 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2012 |
| Author: | Ben Evans |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer New York |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 614 pages |
| Series: | A History of Human Space Exploration |
| Genres: |
Aerospace and aviation technology Astronautics Solar system: the Sun and planets Applied physics Astronomy, space and time |
April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis is producing a mini series of books that reveals how humanity's knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century.
"Tragedy and Triumph" focuses on the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union swung like a pendulum between harmony and outright hostility. The glorious achievements of the shuttle were violently arrested by the devastating loss of Challenger in 1986, while the Soviet program appeared to prosper with the last Salyut and the next-generation Mir orbital station. This book explores the continued rivalry between the two superpowers during this period, with each attempting to outdo the other - the Americans keen to build a space station, the Soviets keen to build a space shuttle - and places their efforts in the context of a bitterly divisive decade, which ultimately led them into partnership.
Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit features in the following genres: Aerospace and aviation technology, Astronautics, Solar system: the Sun and planets, Applied physics, Astronomy, space and time
Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit is available in Ebook, Paperback
Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit was written by Ben Evans and published by Springer an imprint of Springer New York
Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit has 614 pages
Yes it is part of A History of Human Space Exploration series