Missile and Space Race

Informationen zum Autor Alan J. Levine teaches history at Borough of Manhattan Community College. He lives in Bayside, New York. Klappentext Here is a history of the development of military missiles and space travel from World War II to the American visits to the Moon in 1969-1972. It stresses the relationship between the early stages of space exploration and the arms race, and that a dual path led to space flight. One was the development of unmanned long-range war rockets, the other, less often noted, was the rocket-powered research plane. The first path led through the intercontinental ballistic missile to the first artificial satellites and space capsule; the latter, more uniquely American, through the X-series and Skyrocket rocket planes to the X-15, and ultimately to the Space Shuttle. The early part of the book focuses on the Soviet-American race to develop the ICBM in the 1950s, and the first satellites, with particular attention paid to the events and reactions that followed the flight of Sputnik I in 1957 and the subsequent missile gap era. Zusammenfassung Here is a history of the development of military missiles and space travel from World War II to the American visits to the Moon in 1969-1972. It stresses the relationship between the early stages of space exploration and the arms race! and that a dual path led to space flight. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Prelude and Background to the Development of Rocketry and Space Travel The Immediate Postwar Era: Abortive Progress and Hiatus 1945-1950 The Race for the ICBM Space Exploration and Satellites in the 1950s Sputnik and its Consequences, 1957-1958 The "Missile Gap" and After The Space Race, 1958-1960 Humans in Orbit and Interplanetary Probes, 1961-1966 The Other Road--Wings toward Space The Road Not Taken--Nuclear Propulsion To the Moon Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Alan Levine, Alan J. Levine, Levine Alan
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780275944513
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94451-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; History: specific events & topics, American History, SCIENCE / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics, HISTORY / Military / Weapons, astronautics, History of Science, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History: specific events and topics, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Weapons & equipment, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Weapons and equipment