Russia in Space: The Failed Frontier?

Rok: 2001
ISBN: 9781852332037
OKCZID: 110182939

Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
HARVEY, Brian. Russia in space: the failed frontier?. Chichester: Praxis, 2001. xvii, 330 s. Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences.

Hodnocení: 4.5 / 5 (6 hlasů)

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In the 1950s and 1960s, Soviet rockets conquered the cosmos. The Russians put the first satellite into orbit, the first man into space, and landed the first probes on the moon. They sent spaceships to Mars and Venus. Not for nothing were these later called the golden years of the Soviet space program! By the early 21st century, the Soviet dream of conquering space had become a nightmare. Budgets ran out, space industries contracted, space facilities rotted, the tracking ships were scrapped. Ambitious programs like the space shuttle Buran, were cancelled. The great space station Mir was contracted out to private investors and tourists, and even the personal effects of cosmonauts were auctioned in a doomed desperate attempt to keep the Russian space program alive. Russia in Space - the Failed Frontier? tells the inside story of the traumatic events that engulfed the once-glorious Soviet space program. It is a story of desperation and decline, but also a tale of heroic efforts to save the space station Mir and the construction - along with their old rivals, the Americans - of the new International Space Station. So perhaps this isn't the end. The 1990s saw the introduction in Russia of powerful new rockets, commercialization, advanced spycraft, the building of new cosmodromes and the recruitment of new teams of cosmonauts. This comprehensive history of the Russian Soviet space programme, from its origins to the present, addresses the technical, political, historical, human and organisational issues and provides a balanced focus on manned and unmanned programmes. It is the first book to access the Russian space programme over the ten-year period since the fall of communism and provide an historical and contemporary treatment. Only time will tell, but Russia could be a great spacefaring nation once again. Brian Harvey received his BA in History and Political Science at Trinity College, Dublin in 1975 and his MA in History at the University College, Dublin in 1987. He works as a research consultant in the areas of poverty, homelessness, social exclusion and European affairs, and is a writer and broadcaster on space exploration and related themes. He is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and a Gold Medal winner in the University Philosophical Society, Dublin. He is married to Judith Kiernan. They have a daughter, Valerie, and a son, Alistair.

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