The Soviet space race with Apollo
- Title
- The Soviet space race with Apollo / Asif A. Siddiqi.
- Published by
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2003.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- pages xx, 517-1005 : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The Soviet Space Race with Apollo was originally the second half of Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974, a single volume published in 2000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the NASA History Series. The present volume includes chapters 12-20 accompanied by tables and appendices (pages 517-977 of that book). Its companion volume, Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge, includes the first half of the original publication."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- A New Beginning -- Tragedy -- Getting Back on Track -- Final Lap to the Moon -- Options -- Dreams Unfulfilled -- Ashes to Ashes -- Tomorrow Never Knows -- Orbital Launch Attempts in the Soviet Piloted Space Program, 1960-74 -- Mission Parameters for Selected Orbital Flights -- Nonorbital Launch Attempts Supporting the Soviet Piloted Space Program, 1951-74 -- Cosmonaut Selection Groups, 1960-74.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Originally the second half of Challenge to Apollo, a single volume published in 2000.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 861-870) and index.