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Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician…

Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician…

In this last volume of his four-volume set of memoirs, the famous Russian spacecraft designer Boris Chertok, who worked under the legendary Sergey Korolev, continues his fascinating narrative on the history of the Soviet space program, this time…

Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program, but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoir of academician…

Het boek "Van Spoetnik tot Spaceshuttle, de geschiedenis van de ruimtevaart". Een uitvoerig verslag van de geschiedenis van de luchtvaart ruim voorzien van zwart wit foto's. Een uitgave van 1980 samengesteld door Chriet Titulaer.

Oktober 2002. Iedereen in België volgt met ingehouden adem de vlucht van Frank De Winne naar het internationale ruimtevaartstation ISS. Gedurende tien dagen heeft ons land een tweede astronaut in de ruimte. Tegen een snelheid van 27.000 km per uur…

 

On July 20, 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission that carried him and his two fellow astronauts on their epic journey marked the successful culmination of a quest that, ironically, had…