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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 (NASA History Series SP-2000-4408).

Washington, DC: NASA, 2000. very good, very good. 1011, illus., figures, tables, footnotes, glossary, bibliographic essay, appendices, index, some creasing in margins of pp. 33-82. Part of the NASA History Series. The author weaves together three broad interpretive themes: the institutional framework of the Soviet space program and the constituencies that sometimes teamed together and sometimesfought with each other: the engineers, the artillery officers, the defense industrialists, and the Communist Party leaders; Soviet military officers' quick loss of interest in civilian space activities, since such efforts could hurt the funding potential for military rocketry; and Soviets' methods of technological innovation, with the author challenging the Western conventional wisdom that the Soviets always tended toward incremental, rather than revolutionary, innovation.

Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2000 F-/F-. 8vo. original black boards gilt in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & bumped); pp. xvi, 1012 (last blank), with illustrations. Heavy item (2kgs), extra postage may apply. A near fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/F-.

Washington: NASA, 2000. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xvi + 1011pp., b/w plates, appends., index, NASA SP 4408. Explains the differing approaches to space exploration; the US short term race to the moon & the Soviet development of a space station for long term exploration

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