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The missile and space race

Author: Alan J Levine
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Levine, Alan J.
Missile and space race.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1994
(OCoLC)624381325
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alan J Levine
ISBN: 0275944514 9780275944513
OCLC Number: 29319619
Description: viii, 247 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Prelude and Background to the Development of Rocketry and Space Travel --
2. The Immediate Postwar Era: Abortive Progress and Hiatus, 1945-1950 --
3. The Race for the ICBM --
4. Space Exploration and Satellites in the 1950s --
5. Sputnik and Its Consequences, 1957-1958 --
6. The "Missile Gap" and After --
7. The Space Race, 1958-1960 --
8. Humans in Orbit and Interplanetary Probes, 1961-1966 --
9. The Other Road - Wings toward Space --
10. The Road Not Taken - Nuclear Propulsion --
11. To the Moon.
Responsibility: Alan J. Levine.

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