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  title info:
    title: Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit
    sub title: The Eighties and Early Nineties
  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: XVII, 614 p. online resource.
  abstract: April 12, 2011, was 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. Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit, the fourth book in the series, explores the tumultuous events of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, a time when a reinvigorated Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union bred further distrust and intense competition between the two old foes. As the Shuttle sought to fulfill its mandate of regular, routine access to space, a fatal Achilles heel in the system remained undetected until, one freezing January day in 1986, it made itself known with horrifying suddenness on millions of television screens across the world. Systemic flaws, and the urgent need to resolve them, led to several years of introspection, while the Soviet program seemed to prosper and cosmonauts spent longer periods in space than ever before. By the end of the 1980s, a pair of Soviet success masked political changes on the ground, changes which would dramatically turn a once-proud human space program into a mere shadow of what it was. The consequence would be a rocky road to an unlikely partnership.
  table of contents: Illustrations -- Author's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: "We deliver" -- Chapter 2: A final Soviet salute -- Chapter 3: An age of innocence -- Chapter 4: Road to Peace -- Chapter 5: New beginnings -- 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: 9781461434306
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3430-6
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    record creation date: 120531
    record change date: 20151111051059.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-3430-6