challenge apollo soviet union von siddiqi asif (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Taking advantage of the Soviet archives, which were opened in the 1990s, Siddiqi has written a groundbreaking work that examines why the Soviet Union fell behind in the space race of the 1960s after changing the course of human history with the first artificial satellite launch, Sputnik, in 1957. 1,030 pp.

1st Ed. Thick 8vo. xvi + 1011pp. Ills. Very good in d/w. US$52.

Zustand: very good, very good. 1011, illus., figures, tables, footnotes, glossary, bibliographic essay, appendices, index, some creasing in margins of pp. 33-82. Part of the NASA History Series. The author weaves together three broad interpretive themes: the institutional framework of the Soviet space program and the constituencies that sometimes teamed together and sometimesfought with each other: the engineers, the artillery officers, the defense industrialists, and the Communist Party leaders; Soviet military officers' quick loss of interest in civilian space activities, since such efforts could hurt the funding potential for military rocketry; and Soviets' methods of technological innovation, with the author challenging the Western conventional wisdom that the Soviets always tended toward incremental, rather than revolutionary, innovation.