Red Rockets' Glare : Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957

Siddiqi, Asif A.

ISBN 10: 0521897602 / ISBN 13: 9780521897600

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Titre : Red Rockets' Glare : Spaceflight and the ...

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press

Date d'édition : 2010

Reliure : Couverture rigide

Etat : As New

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Synopsis :

An academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program, situating the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within Russian and Soviet history.

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Asif A. Siddiqi is an Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. He specializes in the social and cultural history of modern Russia and the history of science and technology. His work has been supported by the American Historical Association, the Smithsonian Institution, the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His prior book, Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945–1974 (2000), received a number of awards including a citation by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books ever written on space exploration. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and currently lives in New York.