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The politics of space security : strategic restraint and the pursuit of national interests

James Clay Moltz, Author | [S.l.] : Stanford University Press | 2019

For the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they have not yet fought in this environment. This book examines the international politics of the space age from 1[...]

Interkosmos

Colin Burgess, Author ; Bert Vis, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2016

This title focuses on the Interkosmos programme, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study and exploration of space. The chapters shed light on the spac[...]

Voices of the Soviet space program : cosmonauts, soldiers, and engineers who took the USSR into space /

Slava Gerovitch, Author | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology | 2014

In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising a "master narrative," these fascinating and varied accounts bring to light the ofte[...]

Into the cosmos : space exploration and Soviet culture

James T. Andrews, Editor ; Asif A. Siddiqi, Editor | Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press | Pitt series in Russian and East European studies | 2011

The politics of space security : strategic restraint and the pursuit of national interests

James Clay Moltz | [S.l.] : Stanford Security Studies | 2011

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Russian space probes : scientific discoveries and future missions

Brian Harvey ; Olga Zakutnyaya, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2011

Russian space probes : scientific discoveries and future missions

Brian Harvey, Author ; Olga Zakutnyaya, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2011

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Rockets and people

Boris Chertok, Editor ; Asif A. Siddiqi, Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2011

In this last volume of his four-volume set of memoirs, the famous Russian spacecraft designer Boris Chertok, who worked under the legendary Sergey Korolev, continues his fascinating narrative on the history of the Soviet space program, this time[...]

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Rockets and people

Boris Chertok, Editor ; Asif A. Siddiqi, Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2009

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The politics of space security : strategic restraint and the pursuit of national interests

James Clay Moltz | [S.l.] : Stanford Security Studies | 2008

De Spoutnik à la lune : L'histoire secrète du programme spatial soviétique

Pierre Baland, Author | N?imes : Chambon | 2007

Rockets and people

Boris Chertok, Editor ; Asif A. Siddiqi, Editor | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2005

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Space chronicle : Soviet/CIS space : JBIS Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Vol. 57 (2004), suppl. 1.

London (England) : British Interplanetary Society | 2004

- Analysis of Soviel lunar missions - RORSATS: the veiled threat - Aspects of the Soyuz 7K-LOK (Lunniy Orbital Korabl) Lunar orbiter spaceship - A history of Soviet/Russian meteorological satellites

The Soviet space race with Apollo

Asif A. Siddiqi | [S.l.] : University Press of Florida | 2003

Sputnik and the soviet space challenge

Asif A. Siddiqi | [S.l.] : University Press of Florida | 2003

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Russia in space : the failed frontier?

Brian Harvey | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences | 2001

In the 1950s and 1960s, Soviet rockets conquered the cosmos. The Russians put the first satellite into orbit, the first man into space and landed the first probes on the moon. They sent spaceships to Mars and Venus. Not for nothing were these la[...]

Challenge to Apollo : the Soviet Union and the space race, 1945-1974

Asif A. Siddiqi | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | NASA History Series | 2000

The book received the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature at the March 20 2000 luncheon of the Goddard Memorial Symposium, sponsored by the American Astronautical Society. Named in honor of the first NASA Historian, Eugene Emme, the Emme aw[...]

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Baikonour : la porte des etoiles

H. Curien ; G. Longuet | [S.l.] : Armand Colin | 1994

Parmi les "grands chantiers" que l'humanite a accomplis au cours du 20e siecle, la conquete spatiale est sans aucun doute l'un des plus spectaculaires. Baikonour est l'un des symboles et des hauts lieux de cette aventure. Nee de la volonte polit[...]

The Soviet year in space 1990

Nicholas L. Johnson ; Teledyne Brown Engineering (Firm) | [S.l.] : Teledyne Brown Engineering | 1991

The Soviet year in space 1989

Nicholas L. Johnson ; Teledyne Brown Engineering (Firm) | [S.l.] : Teledyne Brown Engineering | 1990

The Soviet year in space 1987

Nicholas L. Johnson ; Teledyne Brown Engineering (Firm) | [S.l.] : Teledyne Brown Engineering | 1988

The Soviet year in space 1988

Nicholas L. Johnson | [S.l.] : Teledyne Brown Engineering | 1988

The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age

Walter A. McDougall | New York : Basic Books | 1985

This highly acclaimed study explores the space race from the faint beeps of Sputnik I to the heart-stopping achievements of Apollo 11. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with key pa[...]