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Spaceflight :a concise history

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A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today. Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than twelve years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon. In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Michael Neufeld offers a concise history of spaceflight, mapping the full spectrum of activities that humans have developed in space.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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: The MIT Press., 2018

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1 online resource.

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English

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9780262350457

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computer

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Astronautics
Manned space flight
Space flight
Space race

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Michael J. Neufeld.

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https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4155/SpaceflightA-Concise-History

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