03754nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-54760-7 DE-He213 20251030112032.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240508s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031547607 978-3-031-54760-7 10.1007/978-3-031-54760-7 doi TL787-4050 TTD bicssc SCI098000 bisacsh TTD thema Capaccioli, Massimo. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 76531 Red Moon [electronic resource] : The Soviet Conquest of Space / by Massimo Capaccioli. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XI, 202 p. 3 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Popular Astronomy, 2626-8779 Ballad of the Moon Moon -- The Dawn -- An Introverted Genius -- The Nibelung Saga -- The Unnamed -- Dog’s Heart -- The Red Icarus -- Flag of the Soviets, Lead us to Victory -- The Swan Song -- Fly Me to The Moon. The book is about the “space race”, starting from the earliest steps of astronautics to the Moon landings of Armstrong and Aldrin. The conquest of space began as a by-product of an exquisitely military project, the rapid, and efficient delivery of explosives, conventional and then nuclear, over great distances into enemy territory. It happened at the turn of World War II, first with the V2s, the Wunderwaffen that von Braun had created for his Führer, and, after the surrender of Germany and Japan, with the intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Russians and Americans built to serve as cabs for atomic bombs. Restrained by the fear of nuclear holocaust, the two great powers that had momentarily divided the government of the world turned the risky muscular confrontation into an unusual race to climb the sky: a stage race with a conventional finish line marked by the human landing on the Moon. Under the constant guidance of Sergei Korolev, the mysterious “chief designer”, the Soviets got off to a surprise start and stayed in the lead until almost the end, with the Sputniks, the orbital flights of Gagarin and Tereshkova, the first spacewalk, and the unmanned soft landings on the Moon and Venus, only to be caught up and overtaken by the Americans at the very edge. An adventure that lasted a total of twelve years, marked by brilliant and courageous men, by astute and far-sighted politicians, by patriotism and ambition, and, as always, regulated by luck, which profoundly affected our world and the design of its future. Outer space Exploration. 69043 Astronautics. 66336 Physicists Biography. 68034 Astronomers Biography. 68035 Physics History. 64549 Space Exploration and Astronautics. 69044 Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers. 68038 History of Physics and Astronomy. 68040 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031547591 Printed edition: 9783031547614 Popular Astronomy, 2626-8779 73651 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54760-7 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 59714 59714