The Missile and Space Race Contributor(s): Levine, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0275944514 ISBN-13: 9780275944513 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1994 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Transportation - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) |
Dewey: 387.809 |
LCCN: 93023673 |
Lexile Measure: 1220 |
Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.39" W x 9.56" (1.26 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Here is a history of the development of military missiles and space travel from World War II to the American visits to the Moon in 1969-1972. It stresses the relationship between the early stages of space exploration and the arms race, and that a dual path led to space flight. One was the development of unmanned long-range war rockets, the other, less often noted, was the rocket-powered research plane. The first path led through the intercontinental ballistic missile to the first artificial satellites and space capsule; the latter, more uniquely American, through the X-series and Skyrocket rocket planes to the X-15, and ultimately to the Space Shuttle. The early part of the book focuses on the Soviet-American race to develop the ICBM in the 1950s, and the first satellites, with particular attention paid to the events and reactions that followed the flight of Sputnik I in 1957 and the subsequent missile gap era. |