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02158aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 B965B93AB81211E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 190718t20192019ctua 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2018950632 020 $a 030023046X 020 $a 9780300230468 035 $a (OCoLC)1109457024 040 $a IWA $b eng $e rda $c IWA $d SILO 100 1 $a Launius, Roger D. 245 10 $a Reaching for the moon : $b a short history of the space race / $c Roder D. Launius. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 247 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a 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. 650 0 $a Space race $x History. 650 0 $a Space flight to the moon $x History. 651 0 $a Outer space $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Astronautics and state $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Astronautics and state $z Soviet Union $x History. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105040334.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20200319010252.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20200228010040.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B965B93AB81211E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search