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Sputnik
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Paul Dickson |
"On October 4, 1957, as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launced the first man-made object into space, a 184-pound satellite carrying only a radio transmitter. Wh… |
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The first lunar landing
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Dennis B. Fradin |
"Covers the first manned lunar landing as a watershed event in U.S. history, influencing social, economic, and political policies that shaped the nation's future"--Provided by publisher. |
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America's future in space
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program |
xvi, 89 p. : 23 cm |
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Space chronicles
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Neil deGrasse Tyson,Avis Lang |
"La NASA está en un punto crítico; después de décadas de supremacíamundial, canceló su programa de transbordadores cerrando su acceso al espacio. Hasta 2020, ningún astronauta será lanzado fuera de l… |
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Amazing stories of the space age
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Rod Pyle |
341 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm |
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Spacefarers
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Michael J. Neufeld |
Historians, political scientists and others have extensively examined the technical, programmatic and political history of human spaceflight from the 1960s to the 1980s, but work is only beginning on… |
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Russian spacecraft
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Robert Godwin |
The Soviet Union began the space race in 1957 but the legacy of Russian astronautics dates back to the 19th century. A long list of accomplishments places the Russian people in the vanguard of space … |
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Korolev
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James Harford |
In the late 1950s and early 1960s when the West was stunned by the space accomplishments of the Soviet Union, the identity of their "Chief Designer" was a state secret in keeping with the tradition o… |
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