Man's Conquest of Space

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Challenging the limitless ocean of space, 20th-century man confronts the most awesome of all frontiers. In the first busy decade of the Space Age, man's courage and his technology have carried him away from his home planet toward supreme adventure.
Man's Conquest of Space encompasses the whole thrilling pageant: from Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit earth, to the epic walks in space; from the first simple satellites, beeping their messages home, to the complex giants of today, whiHing through the reaches of interplanetary space.
The far-sighted pioneers who have contributed to the Space Age are here —men like Galileo and Copernicus, Goddard and von Braun, men whose probing minds have helped take us to the world beyond earth.
A trip to the moon aboard an Apollo spacecraft simulates, step-by-step, the adventures astronauts will experience and the eerie new sights they will see. The void that man seeks to cross threatens him with bizarre dangers: Deadly radiation bombards... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Challenging the limitless ocean of space, 20th-century man confronts the most awesome of all frontiers. In the first busy decade of the Space Age, man's courage and his technology have carried him away from his home planet toward supreme adventure.
Man's Conquest of Space encompasses the whole thrilling pageant: from Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit earth, to the epic walks in space; from the first simple satellites, beeping their messages home, to the complex giants of today, whiHing through the reaches of interplanetary space.
The far-sighted pioneers who have contributed to the Space Age are here —men like Galileo and Copernicus, Goddard and von Braun, men whose probing minds have helped take us to the world beyond earth.
A trip to the moon aboard an Apollo spacecraft simulates, step-by-step, the adventures astronauts will experience and the eerie new sights they will see. The void that man seeks to cross threatens him with bizarre dangers: Deadly radiation bombards his alien spacecraft; the normally-friendly sun hurls power-charged solar winds at him; and doctors still wonder about the effects of long periods of weightlessness he will experience on extended journeys in space.
But on the eve of the Apollo flights, man faces the new wodd with confidence. In this Special Publication, William R. Shelton, a chronicler of the space program since its eariiest days, captures the drama of the endeavor and the fervor of the men and women dedicated to it. Photographs vividly show where man and his machines have been; paintings give an insight into where he is going in space and how he will get there.
Mr. Shelton, the author of American Space Exploration and Soviet Space Exploration, describes in the pages of this book a world where the stars don't twinkle but lights on earth do, where every answer prompts new questions, where man, impelled by his restless spirit, seeks to go. Vissza