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9780765605375

Echoes Among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765605375

  • ISBN10:

    0765605376

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-12-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Walsh (literature and communications, Pace U., New York) offers a brief history of the technical triumphs of the space program and its effects on the scientific, social, and cultural history of the last half of the 20th century. Includes a dozen b&w historical photographs and a chronology.

Author Biography

Patrick Walsh is a member of the Literature and Communications faculty of Pace University in Pleasantville, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
NASA Lifts Off: The 1950s
3(10)
Project Mercury: Setting the Sights
13(20)
Project Gemini: A Bridge to the Moon
33(22)
Apollo 1: Lives in Eclipse
55(16)
Apollo Before the Moon: Into the Light
71(14)
Apollo 11: Life on an Ancient World
85(12)
Apollo 12 and Apollo 13: Storms in Space
97(12)
Before the Short Day Ends: Apollo in Twilight
109(14)
Skylab: A Place in Space
123(4)
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: A Handshake Across the Heavens
127(12)
The 1970s: Journeys Without and Within
139(4)
Echoes: The Shuttle Era and Beyond
143(20)
Chronology: The First Era in Space, 1957-1975 163(18)
Notes 181(10)
Bibliography 191(4)
Index 195(10)
About the Author 205

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