Cold War Space Sleuths The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Phelan, Dominic (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Springer Praxis Books
• Θέματα: Engineering.; System safety.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Security Science and Technology.

Cold War Space Sleuths reads like a Cold War espionage novel, but the reality of the story about the dedicated amateur observers bent on finding out about Soviet spaceflight during the Cold War is just as exciting and absorbing. Told in the sleuth's own words, each chapter unfolds a piece of th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Editor's introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1: Space sleuths and their 'scoops' Dominic Phelan
• Chapter 2: Hidden in plain view Brian Harvey
• Chapter 3: The satellite trackers Sven Grahn
• Chapter 4: Cosmonauts who weren't there James Oberg
• Chapter 5: The view from Paris Claude Wachtel and Christian Lardier
• Chapter 6: Orbital elements of surprise Phillip Clark
• Chapter 7: Adventures in Star City Bert Vis
• Chapter 8: Russian-language sleuthing Bart Hendrickx
• Chapter 9: People and archives Asif Siddiqi
• Chapter 10: Urban cosmonauts and space historians David J. Shayler
• Contributors
• Index.