Foothold in the Heavens The Seventies /

• Main Author: Evans, Ben (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

April 12, 2011 is 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 ce...

Table of Contents:

• New directions
• Luna incognita
• At home, above
• Luna cognita
• End of the beginning.