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  title info:
    title: At Home in Space
    sub title: The Late Seventies into the Eighties
  name:
    name part: Evans, Ben.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 481 p. 65 illus., 49 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 century. At Home in Space, the third book in the series, continues the story throughout the later Seventies and into the Eighties. It was a period of time characterised by great promise. Regular Soviet missions demonstrated that humanity could not only survive, but thrive, in a weightless environment, and the arrival of the Space Shuttle seemed to offer a more economical and routine means of accessing the heavens. Living in space became truly international as astronauts from many nations lived and worked together on Soviet space stations and aboard the Shuttle. At the same time, however, relations between two key players in this drive to conquer the high ground of space - the United States and the Soviet Union - steadily declined from the high-watermark of Apollo-Soyuz to the nadir of Star Wars. This third volume charts the progress made in space during this pivotal phase of humanity's quest to explore the final frontier.
  table of contents: Contents -- Illustrations -- Author's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Unlikely partners -- Chapter 2: A home after Apollo -- Chapter 3: A tale of science, sickness and the Sun -- Chapter 4: Red stars in the East -- Chapter 5: Dreams and nightmares -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Ben Evans.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  classification: TL787-4050.22
  classification: 629.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9781441988102
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8810-2
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    record creation date: 110926
    record change date: 20151111091543.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4419-8810-2