1st Edition
Echoes Among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program A Short History of the U.S. Space Program
By Patrick J. Walsh
Copyright 2000
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Emphasizing the importance of the space programme to the scientific, social and cultural history of the last half of the 20th century, this brief history celebrates the almost unimaginable technological leap that the space programme represents, a feat of teamwork, innovation, dedication and mastery unprecedented in the history of mankind. Walsh's narrative begins just before the Mercury programme,... Read more
NASA Lifts Off - the 1950s; Project Mercury - Setting the Sights; Project Gemini - a Bridge to the Moon; Apollo I - Lives in Eclipse; Apollo Before the Moon - Into the Light; Apollo XI - Life on an Ancient World; Apollo XII and XIII - Storms in Space; Before the Short Day Ends -Apollo in Twilight; Skylab - a Place in Space; ASTP - a Handshake Across the Heavens; The 1970s - Journey's Without and Within; Echoes - the Shuttle Era and Beyond.
Biography
Walsh, Patrick J.
