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Tom Crouch, senior curator of aeronautics at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, originally wanted .

Tom Crouch, senior curator of aeronautics at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, originally wanted to produce. Instead of a strong thesis, the book offers an examination of the "dreamers and doers" of space exploration that shows how their experience "mirrors the deep complexities of twentieth-century history" (p. xii). Crouch keeps personalities and anecdotes in the foreground, especially the colorful characters of the era before bureaucracy induced blandness. We learn that Johannes Kepler wrote a fictional story about the space travels of his mother, and accordingly authorities arrested her for witchcraft.

Tom D. Crouch describes space travel's emergence from the pages of science fiction into the laboratories of twentieth-century rocketeers such as Wernher von Braun, who masterminded Nazi rocket development and later became a key figure in the . space program, and Sergei Korolev, an engineer whose successful launches became the foundation of Soviet Cold War policy.

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space program, and Sergei Korolev, an engineer whose successful launches became the foundation of Soviet Cold War policy.

Chapter 1 Prologue: Spaceport! Chapter 2 1. A Plurality of Worlds Chapter 3 2. The Call of the Cosmos Chapter 4 3. Raketenrummel Chapter 5 4. An American Dreamer Chapter 6 5. Vergeltungswaffe. More). 1. View via Publisher. NASA art: 50 years of exploration.

Explaining the goals and missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, the book also describes the 1986 Challenger disaster, the spacefaring adventures of astronaut Shannon Lucid, and the fortunes of Mir space station in the wake of glasnost. php?lvl notice display&id 3798.

Similar books and articles. Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR Into Space. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age. 256 P. Illus. London: Science Museum, 2015.