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- catalog abstract ""Aiming for the Stars explores the motivations, goals, trials, and triumphs of the people who pioneered "the fearful void" of space. Tracing the idea of space exploration to the sixteenth century, Tom D. Crouch describes its emergence from the pages of science fiction into the laboratories of early twentieth-century American, Russian, and German rocketeers. He charts the parallel careers of Wernher von Braun, who masterminded Nazi rocket development and later became a key figure in the U.S. space program, and Sergei Korolev, an engineer whose successful launches became the foundation of Soviet Cold War policy. Explaining the goals and missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, the book also describes the 1986 Challenger disaster, the spacefaring adventures of astronaut Shannon Lucid, and the fortunes of the Mir space station in the wake of glasnost."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11399190.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Aiming for the Stars explores the motivations, goals, trials, and triumphs of the people who pioneered "the fearful void" of space. Tracing the idea of space exploration to the sixteenth century, Tom D. Crouch describes its emergence from the pages of science fiction into the laboratories of early twentieth-century American, Russian, and German rocketeers. He charts the parallel careers of Wernher von Braun, who masterminded Nazi rocket development and later became a key figure in the U.S. space program, and Sergei Korolev, an engineer whose successful launches became the foundation of Soviet Cold War policy. Explaining the goals and missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, the book also describes the 1986 Challenger disaster, the spacefaring adventures of astronaut Shannon Lucid, and the fortunes of the Mir space station in the wake of glasnost."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. A Plurality of Worlds 10 -- 2. The Call of the Cosmos 19 -- 3. Raketenrummel 39 -- 4. An American Dreamer 59 -- 5. Vergeltungswaffe! 72 -- 6. "Our Germans" 92 -- 7. Selling Space Flight 116 -- 8. Fellow Travelers 133 -- 9. This New Ocean 151 -- 10. Racing to the Moon 167 -- 11. The Giant Leap: Gemini 184 -- 12. The Apollo Era 199 -- 13. Men from Earth 216 -- 14. Salyut and Skylab: Rooms with a View 235 -- 15. The Shuttle Era 249 -- 16. At Home in Orbit 265 -- 17. Robot Servants and Explorers 276 -- 18. Outward Bound 301.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-330) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 338 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Aiming for the stars.".
- catalog identifier "1560983868 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Aiming for the stars.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Aiming for the stars.".
- catalog subject "629.4 21".
- catalog subject "Aerospace engineers History.".
- catalog subject "Astronautics History.".
- catalog subject "Space flight History.".
- catalog subject "TL788.5 .C67 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. A Plurality of Worlds 10 -- 2. The Call of the Cosmos 19 -- 3. Raketenrummel 39 -- 4. An American Dreamer 59 -- 5. Vergeltungswaffe! 72 -- 6. "Our Germans" 92 -- 7. Selling Space Flight 116 -- 8. Fellow Travelers 133 -- 9. This New Ocean 151 -- 10. Racing to the Moon 167 -- 11. The Giant Leap: Gemini 184 -- 12. The Apollo Era 199 -- 13. Men from Earth 216 -- 14. Salyut and Skylab: Rooms with a View 235 -- 15. The Shuttle Era 249 -- 16. At Home in Orbit 265 -- 17. Robot Servants and Explorers 276 -- 18. Outward Bound 301.".
- catalog title "Aiming for the stars : the dreamers and doers of the space age / Tom D. Crouch.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".