Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties (Springer Praxis Books)

by Ben Evans (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $42.86

  The focus here is on the 1960s, exploring each mission from April 1961 to April 1971 in depth: from the pioneering Vostok flights to the establishment of the first Salyut space station and from Alan Shepard's modest sub-orbital `hop' into space to his triumphant arrival at the Moon's Fra Mauro foothills almost a decade later.