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100 1 _aEvans, Ben.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTragedy and Triumph in Orbit
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Eighties and Early Nineties /
_cby Ben Evans.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2012.
300 _aXVII, 614 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 1 _aSpringer Praxis Books
505 0 _aIllustrations -- Author's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: "We deliver" -- Chapter 2: A final Soviet salute -- Chapter 3: An age of innocence -- Chapter 4: Road to Peace -- Chapter 5: New beginnings -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aApril 12, 2011, was 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. Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit, the fourth book in the series, explores the tumultuous events of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, a time when a reinvigorated Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union bred further distrust and intense competition between the two old foes. As the Shuttle sought to fulfill its mandate of regular, routine access to space, a fatal Achilles heel in the system remained undetected until, one freezing January day in 1986, it made itself known with horrifying suddenness on millions of television screens across the world. Systemic flaws, and the urgent need to resolve them, led to several years of introspection, while the Soviet program seemed to prosper and cosmonauts spent longer periods in space than ever before. By the end of the 1980s, a pair of Soviet success masked political changes on the ground, changes which would dramatically turn a once-proud human space program into a mere shadow of what it was. The consequence would be a rocky road to an unlikely partnership.
650 0 _aEngineering.
650 0 _aAstrophysics.
650 0 _aAstronomy.
650 0 _aAstronautics.
650 1 4 _aEngineering.
650 2 4 _aAerospace Technology and Astronautics.
650 2 4 _aPopular Science in Astronomy.
650 2 4 _aExtraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9781461434290
830 0 _aSpringer Praxis Books
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3430-6
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