Title Reaching for the moon : a short history of the space race / Roger D. Launius

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations Contents Prologue: U.S./USSR Early Postwar Rocketry -- ONE: Sputnik Winter -- TWO: The First Race to the Moon -- THREE: Star Voyagers -- FOUR: The Decisions to Go to the Moon -- FIVE: The Game of One-Upmanship -- SIX: Creating the Moon-Landing Capability -- SEVEN: Realization -- EIGHT: Revelations Summary At the dawn of the space age, technological breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of ingenuity and disturbances to a delicate global balance of power. In this short book, aerospace historian Roger D. Launius concisely and engagingly explores the driving force of this era: the race to the Moon. Beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 and closing with the end of the Apollo program in 1972, Launius examines how early space exploration blurred the lines between military and civilian activities, and how key actions led to space firsts as well as crushing failures. Launius places American and Soviet programs on equal footing-following American aerospace engineers Wernher von Braun and Robert Gilruth, their Soviet counterparts Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov-to highlight key actions that led to various successes, failures, and ultimately the American Moon landing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on June 27, 2019) Subject Space race -- History Space flight to the moon -- History Astronautics and state -- United States -- History Astronautics and state -- Soviet Union -- History TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General) SCIENCE -- History. Astronautics and state Exploration of outer space Space flight to the moon Space race SUBJECT Outer space -- Exploration -- History Subject Outer space Soviet Union United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300245165 0300245165

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