The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic /

• Main Author: Cavallaro, Umberto (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Space Exploration
• Subjects: Astronomy.; Space sciences.; History.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; United States-History.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Popular Science in History.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; US History.

The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies. This book will show how beneath the...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Sputnik Triggers the USSR-USA Space Race
• Chapter 2: Man in Space
• Chapter 3: Astronaut Sits in the Driver's Seat
• Chapter 4: Two Tragedies Block the Space Race
• Chapter 5: The Final Leap
• Chapter 6: Apollo 11 - Astrophilatelic Aspects
• References
• Glossary
• Index.