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Raketoj k lune.

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Raketoj k lune.

by LEVANTOVSKIJ, V. I

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Moscow, Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo fiziko-matematičeskoj literatury, 1960. 8vo. 379 pp.+ plates. Illustrated. Publ. decorated cloth-backed boards with dust jacket, the latter with tears and small paper losses. Title in English: ”By rocket to the moon”. (Our translation.) A popular scientific attempt to describe the challenges associated with lunar travel, published barely a decade before Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. It is by no means a strictly Soviet-chauvinistic account and references are therefore made to US-based rocket pioneers such as Robert Goddard and Wernher von Braun as well as to the iconic Russian theorist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. (A contributing factor to this was surely the strict secrecy which surrounded the Soviet space program and its key figure, Sergej Koroljov.) A sign of the high degree of speculation that still characterized the literature on lunar travel only a few years before the Apollo program are the references in this book to science fiction writers such as Stanislaw Lem and Arthur C. Clarke.

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Raketoj k lune.
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LEVANTOVSKIJ, V. I
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Hardcover

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