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"The heart of professional baseball, if not its roots, may be found in the American Midwest, especially in Missouri. In Seasons in the Sun, Roger D. Launius offers an excellent overview of the teams, pennant races, trials, and triumphs of the different major-league teams that have resided in the state over the years."--Jacket
Baseball --- Base-ball --- Ball games --- History.
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Aeronautics --- Flight --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics --- Aerostation --- Air navigation --- Aviation --- Communication and traffic --- Aerodynamics --- Airships --- Astronautics --- Balloons --- Flying-machines --- History. --- Technological innovations --- History --- Technological innovations.
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"Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers. At the dawn of the space age, technological breakthroughs in Earth orbit flight were both breathtaking feats of ingenuity and disturbances to a delicate global balance of power. In this short book, aerospace historian Roger D. Launius concisely and engagingly explores the driving force of this era: the race to the Moon. Beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 and closing with the end of the Apollo program in 1972, Launius examines how early space exploration blurred the lines between military and civilian activities, and how key actions led to space firsts as well as crushing failures. Launius places American and Soviet programs on equal footing—following American aerospace engineers Wernher von Braun and Robert Gilruth, their Soviet counterparts Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov—to highlight key actions that led to various successes, failures, and ultimately the American Moon landing." -- Publisher's description.
Space race --- Astronautics and state --- Space flight to the moon --- Astronautics --- Space policy --- State and astronautics --- Science and state --- Technology and state --- History. --- Government policy --- Outer space --- Exploration
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Space flight to the moon --- Space race --- History. --- History. --- Project Apollo (U.S.) --- History. --- Outer space --- Exploration --- History.
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"The study investigates and analyzes historical episodes in America where the federal government undertook public/private efforts to complete critical activities valued for their public good and applies the lessons learned to commercial space activities"--Provided by publisher.
Space industrialization --- Public-private sector cooperation --- Public works --- Common good --- Government policy --- Finance --- Economic aspects --- United States --- Commerce.
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