To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803222092 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Photos. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. space program. All rights reserved. On the whole, this is a detailed, deftly written history that should appeal to all would-be rocketeers, whether launching from fields on weekend afternoons or just dreaming of space in a comfortable chair. From Publishers Weekly When mankind first made the leap into space in the late 1950s, one commentator compared it to life crawling out of the primordial goop onto land. Much of Gainor's book will be familiar to die-hard space buffs, but he has dug out shiny nuggets with which to dazzle readers, such as that the assassin of Czar Alexander II was a rocket buff and that the countdown was first used by director Fritz Lang in his film Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon)
Rockets as both weapons and entertainment are examined in this engaging history of how human beings acquired the ability to catapult themselves into space.Chris Gainor’s irresistible narrative introduces us to pioneers such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth, who pointed the way to the cosmos by generating the earliest wave of international enthusiasm for space exploration. From there Gainor follows the space race to the Soviet Union and the United States, giving us a close look at the competitive hysteria that led to Sputnik, satellites, space probes, and—finally—human flight into space in 1961.As much a story of cultural ambition and personal destiny as of scientific progress and technological history, To a Distant Day offers a complete and thoroughly compelling account of hu
Thomas C. said Very good historical survey of rockets and their creators. I was looking for a book covering all rocket developers of the "Very good historical survey of rockets and their creators" according to Thomas C.. I was looking for a book covering all rocket developers of the 20th century, showing how they interacted, competed and learned from each other. That's exactly what this recently-published book delivers.Its strength comes from the demonstration of these interactions. Learn how the early pioneers such as Tsiolkovsky and Goddard went as far as they could alone, independently of each other, often rediscovering physical laws and each others' work and not even realizing it. Learn how Von Braun's being hired by the German Army prior to. 0th century, showing how they interacted, competed and learned from each other. That's exactly what this recently-published book delivers.Its strength comes from the demonstration of these interactions. Learn how the early pioneers such as Tsiolkovsky and Goddard went as far as they could alone, independently of each other, often rediscovering physical laws and each others' work and not even realizing it. Learn how Von Braun's being hired by the German Army prior to. To a Distant Day Melvin D. Croft "To a Distant Day", the third installment in the Outward Odyssey series ("Into That Silent Sea" and "In the Shadow of the Moon") fully deserves to stand alongside the first two wonderful books hopefully already on your library shelf! However, my initial response to the release of this book was not with the same excitement as the first two books; this wasn't going to be a book about the astronauts and the right stuff, telling us more about their fantastic journeys through new and exclusive personal interviews. In fact, most of th. Leap to the Sky Andrew Liptak I had a really nice surprise on Friday afternoon - a package from the University of Nebraska Press with a copy of the next installment of their Outward Odyssey series, To A Distant Day, by Chris Gainor, about the human history of space exploration. I was a big fan of the first two books in the series, Into that Silent Sea and In The Shadow of the Moon, both of which dealt heavily with human space flight, with Silent Sea taking much of the earlier days from Mercury to very early Apollo and with Shadows taking the lead up to and h