This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375754857 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 752 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Outstanding BookPlease Release on Audible Pulitzer Prize winner for a reason. I'm surprised this book has t maintained a higher level of popularity. It is extremely well written. I would like an Audible version as well but the Kindle version I have is working very well.. "An excellent history of "the space age"" according to A Customer. This was an enjoyable read and it would take a good read to make me hang in there for 650 pages (not counting biblio and index). You will learn a lot about Soviet space mishaps that you probably hadn't heard before. You will not learn much more about the Challenger incident unless you never watch Nova. There is more detail here about the German rocket program. Goddard is given his due but you will get more detail from other sources (and I can't remember the name of the book I read An excellent history of "the space age" This was an enjoyable read and it would take a good read to make me hang in there for 650 pages (not counting biblio and index). You will learn a lot about Soviet space mishaps that you probably hadn't heard before. You will not learn much more about the Challenger incident unless you never watch Nova. There is more detail here about the German rocket program. Goddard is given his due but you will get more detail from other sources (and I can't remember the name of the book I read 30 years . 0 years . A Thoroughly Researched History of Space Burrows offers the best attempt so far at a comprehensive history of the Space Age in a single volume. There are two flaws. First, the commercial side of space is almost untouched. The driving engine of space development today is in the tens of billions of dollars being poured into communications satellites and other applications. Burrows spares only a few pages for this topic. The other flaw is Burrows' tendency to snipe at the evil American military-industrial complex without trying to un
Burrows covers just about everyone in history--from Daedalus to John Glenn--who ever designed or flew a rocket, trying to "ride the arrow" to the moon and beyond. One of Burrows's most interesting points is that without the cold war we never would have made it into space. More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occasional women) who have "slipped the surly bonds of Earth." Eminent science journalist and space expert William E. Burrows extensively researched his subject, and he seems to want to include a little bit of everything; too much detail bogs down the narrative in places. It's a trail of testosterone from start to finish, but it makes for an engrossing read. When it comes to the great, memorable moments in space history, Burrows really shines
missile and space programs legally belonged to the Soviet Union and were spirited to the United States in a derring-do operation worthy of a spy thriller;despite NASA's claim that it was a civilian agency, it had an intimate relationship with the military at the outset and still does--a distinction the Soviet Union never pretended to make;constant efforts to portray astronauts and cosmonauts as "Boy Scouts" were often contradicted by reality;the Apollo missions to the Moon may have been an unexcelled political triumph and feat of exploration, but they also created a headache for the space agency that lingers to this day. This New Ocean is based on 175 interviews with Russian and American scientists and engineers; on archival documents, including formerly top-secret National Intelligence Estimates and spy satellite pictures; and on nearly three decades