New Race for Space

by James Edward Oberg

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811721779
• ISBN13: 9780811721776
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Cute Cosmic Compendium

This modest little trade paperback is a collection of Oberg's articles on space flight subjects from the early 1980s, and half of it is a supplement to his better-known book 'Red Star in Orbit'. The contents in more detail are: Foreword by Ben Bova; Invisible Space Race; Spaceflight Fire; Astronauts versus Robots; Spaceflight Geography Lesson; Space Fleets; Space Maladies; Salyut-7 Breakthroughs; Soyuz T-8 Rendezvous; Modules in Orbit; Drama of Soyuz T-10A; Russia's Space Shuttle Programs; A Shuttle-Salyut Joint Mission; Soviet Propaganda Blitz; 24-Hour Astronaut Service; Flights to Other Worlds; Exploring the Asteroid Belt; Spaceships of the Future; Tethered Space Operations; Space Pilgrim's Progress; index. (...)