At Home in Space The Late Seventies into the Eighties /

• Main Author: Evans, Ben (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• 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 c...

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.