The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic /

The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies. This book will show how beneath the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavallaro, Umberto (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Space Exploration
Subjects:
Astronomy.
Space sciences.
History.
Russia-History.
Europe, Eastern-History.
United States-History.
ISBN:9783319921532
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Sputnik Triggers the USSR-USA Space Race
  • Chapter 2: Man in Space
  • Chapter 3: Astronaut Sits in the Driver's Seat
  • Chapter 4: Two Tragedies Block the Space Race
  • Chapter 5: The Final Leap
  • Chapter 6: Apollo 11 - Astrophilatelic Aspects
  • References
  • Glossary
  • Index.

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