Lunar Exploration

TRAMA

Paolo Ulivi provides a well-paced, rapidly moving, balanced, even-handed account of lunar exploration as a popular history. He covers the unmanned programmes, e.g. Ranger, and other American probes in the late ‘50s and in the later chapters he looks at recent lunar exploration and future plans for the same. It’s a book that will be perfect for an enthusiast or someone coming to the story for the first time, as it does not include excessive technical depth. Uniquely drawing on recently declassified documents, detail of Chinese lunar exploration projects is provided, as well as nuclear lunar weapons of the ‘50s developed by the super powers, Soviet Russia and the United States.

SOMMARIO

The Beginning of the Space Race (early Soviet rocketry and US satellite projects).- The Space Race 1960-1969 (the race between US and USSR unmanned spacecraft).- United States Wins the Race (US Apollo Programme).- How the Soviet Union Lost the Race (Soviet human lunar projects).- The Race is Over (unmanned lunar exploration of the ‘70s and ‘80s).- The Small Ones are Coming (probe missions).- The Future (possible lunar missions over the next decade).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781852337469
• Collana: Springer Praxis Books
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XX, 363 p. 120 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 363
• Pagine Romane: xx