Foothold in the Heavens: The Seventies (Space Exploration) - Softcover

Evans, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441963413 ISBN 13: 9781441963413

Publisher: Praxis, 2010

Synopsis

This book focuses on each space mission launched between April 1971 and April 1981: from the launch of the world's first space station to the end of operations of Salyut 6, from the exploration of the Moon on Apollo 15 to the first flight of the Shuttle.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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. Foothold in the Heavens focuses on the early 1970s, when we completed our first exploration of the Moon and established a real, long-term presence in orbit with the first space stations. It marked a transitional phrase between the heady days of the 1960s and efforts to make space travel more economical, more frequent and more routine in the later 1970s and 1980s. This book explores the intense competition and bitter rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union - with one side devoting its energies to lunar exploration, the other diverting its attention to near-Earth studies - which eventually brought a pair of Cold War foes away from the nuclear trigger to the negotiating table and opened a new era of cooperation in space.

About the Author:

Ben Evans is an accomplished and experienced space writer ideally qualified to chronicle the epic story of human space exploration. In addition to writing five books for Springer-Praxis, including the first book in this series: Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and Sixties. He has published numerous space and astronomy related articles in such journals as Spaceflight, Countdown, and Astronomy Now.

About this edition

• Publisher: Praxis
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1441963413
• ISBN 13: 9781441963413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 548