Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit : The Eighties and Early Nineties

April 12, 2011, was the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis is producing a mini series of books that reveals how humanity's knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half...

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मुख्य लेखक: Evans, Ben, 1976-
स्वरूप: Livre numérique
भाषा:Anglais
प्रकाशित: New York, NY : Springer New York [20..].
Cham : Springer Nature
संस्करण:1st ed. 2012.
श्रृंखला:Space Exploration
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