Soviets in Space: Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier - Couverture rigide

Burgess, Colin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1789146321 ISBN 13 : 9781789146325

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2022

Synopsis

'Nicely paced with an easy style, the book leaves the reader with a better appreciation of the depth of work achieved by the Soviet space sector . . . This is a great resource.' - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

'This is a fascinating, exciting, sometimes alarming and always comprehensively clear-headed study of the Soviet space program from its beginnings to the present day.' - Stephen Walker, author of Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the Soviet Union's extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration. Within a decade the Soviets not only launched the world’s first satellite, but were the first to send an animal and a human being into Earth orbit. More than that, their ground-breaking missions sent a woman into space, launched a three-man spacecraft and included the first person to walk in space.
Six decades on from the historic spaceflight of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Burgess guides us through the amazing achievements of Russia's spaceflight programme through to the present day, introducing the men and women who have flown the missions as we seek to delve ever deeper into the wonders and complexities of the cosmos.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Colin Burgess is the author or editor of almost forty books on the military and spaceflight, including Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts (2011) and The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration (Reaktion, 2021).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789146321
• ISBN 13: 9781789146325
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible