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In contrast to the close cooperation practiced among European states, space relations among Asian states have become increasingly tense. If current trends continue, the Asian civilian space competition could become a military race. To better understand these emerging dynamics, James Clay Moltz conducts the first in-depth policy analysis of Asia's fourteen leading space programs, concentrating especially on developments in China, Japan, India, and South Korea.Moltz isolates the domestic motivations driving Asia's space actors, revisiting critical events such as China's 2007 antisatellite weapons test and manned flights, Japan's successful Kaguya lunar mission and Kibo module for the International Space Station (ISS), India's Chandrayaan lunar mission, and South Korea's astronaut visit to the ISS, along with plans to establish independent space-launch capability. He investigates these nations' divergent space goals and their tendency to focus on national solutions and self-reliance rather than regionwide cooperation and multilateral initiatives. He concludes with recommendations for improved intra-Asian space cooperation and regional conflict prevention.Moltz also considers America's efforts to engage Asia's space programs in joint activities and the prospects for future U.S. space leadership. He extends his analysis to the relationship between space programs and economic development in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, making this a key text for international relations and Asian studies scholars.

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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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Ruimtewetenschappen --- Science and space --- Sciences spatiales --- Space research --- Space sciences --- Astronautics --- Astronautics and state --- Cosmology --- Science --- Astronomy --- Astronautical research --- Space policy --- State and astronautics --- Science and state --- Technology and state --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Research --- Government policy --- Europe

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Astronautics and state --- Aerospace industries --- Economic aspects --- Astronautics --- Space policy --- State and astronautics --- Science and state --- Technology and state --- Industries --- Government policy --- Outer space --- Exploration --- Astronautics and state - Europe - Statistics. --- Aerospace industries - Economic aspects - Europe.