9781585443741 - the first space race: launching the world's first satellites di bille, matt; lishock, erika (8 risultati)
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Texas A&M University Press, 2004
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Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Texas A&M University Press, 2004
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Texas A&M University Press, 2004
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Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: Texas A&M University Press, 2004
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Da: Manitou Books, Manitou Springs, CO, U.S.A.Manitou Books
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Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition stated. Inscribed by author (Erika Lishock) on half title page. Light staining and waving at back portion of book, from apparent water damage (see photos 4 and 5). See photos. Inscribed by Author.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 2004
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Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. No dust jacket issued. xviii, 214 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Suggested Reading. Index. Foreword by James A. Van Allen. Matt Bille is an author in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is also a naturalist, historian, science writer, and defense consultant. A former Air Force officer, he is the…author of over 20 technical publications and articles on space-related topics. He is the lead author of the NASA-published history The First Space Race: Launching the World's First Satellites (2004), a groundbreaking account of the early Space Age. He wrote two books on the world's rarest and least-known animals, Rumors of Existence (1995) and Shadows of Existence (2004), and is working on his third, tentatively titled Seas, Sharks, and Serpents. He has been a freelance contributor to reference books including Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia and the Nature Yearbook of Science & Technology. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and is a member of the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society. The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II, enabled by captured German rocket technology and personnel. The technological superiority required for such supremacy was seen as necessary for national security, and symbolic of ideological superiority. The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, unmanned space probes of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon. The competition began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement four days earlier of intent to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, by declaring they would also launch a satellite "in the near future". The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1, and later beat the US to the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The race peaked with the July 20, 1969 US landing of the first humans on the Moon with Apollo 11. The USSR tried but failed manned lunar missions, and eventually canceled them and concentrated on Earth orbital space stations. A period of detente followed with the April 1972 agreement on a cooperative Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, resulting in the July 1975 rendezvous in Earth orbit of a US astronaut crew with a Soviet cosmonaut crew. The end of the Space Race is harder to pinpoint than its beginning, but it was over by the December, 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, after which true spaceflight cooperation between the US and Russia began. The Space Race has left a legacy of Earth communications and weather satellites, and continuing human space presence on the International Space Station. It has also sparked increases in spending on education and research and development, which led to beneficial spin-off technologies. First Paperback Edition. Presumed first printing.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 2004
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Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. Illustrations. Notes. Suggested Reading. Index. Foreword by James A. Van Allen Cover has slight wear and soiling. This is number 8 in the Centennial of Flight series. Matt Bille is a science writer and historian. He is an "Apollo kid" who watched the lunar launches, commanded an Air Force…missile crew, and published papers on launch vehicles, microsatellites, and space history. His 2004 book The First Space Race was a groundbreaking and well-reviewed history of the world's first satellites. Erika Lishock is a Satellite Systems Engineer with consulting firm ISYS Technologies and a freelance writer on space history. She has co-authored numerous articles with Matt Bille on the topic of space since 1997 and is currently working with the Missile Defense Agency's Space Experimentation Center on the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) research satellite. From 1955 to 1958, American and Soviet engineers battled to successfully launch the world's first satellite. The race to orbit featured two American teams led by rival services and a Soviet effort that few even knew it existed. This race ushered in the Space Age with a saga of science, politics, technology,and engineering. The concept of an artificial satellite had been only theorized. The first nation to transform theory into practice would gain advantages in science, the propaganda contest, and the military balance of power. Visionaries such as von Braun and Korolev knew these fields would be affected by the launch of a satellite. In this book, authors Matt Bille and Erika Lishock tell the whole story of the first space race. They trace the tale from the origins of spaceflight theory and through the military and political events that engendered the all-out efforts needed to turn dreams into reality and shaped the modern world. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: Texas A&M University Press, 2004
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Da: Manitou Books, Manitou Springs, CO, U.S.A.Manitou Books
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition stated. Signed by BOTH authors. Signed by author (Erika Lishock) on half title page. Inscribed and signed by author (Matt Bille) on half title page. Otherwise, inside is clean, tight, and unmarked. See photos. Signed by Author.
The First Space Race: Launching the World?s First Satellites (Volume 8) (Centennial of Flight Series)
Bille, Matthew A.; Lishock, Erika; Allen, James A. Van [Foreword]
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Texas A&M University Press, 2004
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Da: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.BennettBooksLtd
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paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
