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Toen Neil Armstrong in 1969 zijn geribbelde zool in het maanoppervlak duwde, stond de aardbol even stil. Armstrong schreef die dag geschiedenis, maar de Antwerpenaar Karel Bossart deed dat ook. Wat weinig mensen weten is dat deze Belg een grote rol…

In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who,…

Bibliografische gegevens Titel:Yuri Gagarin: To Mark the 25th Anniversary of the First Manned Space Flight Volume 5 van History of the USSR Nummer 5 van History of the USSR, new research Redacteur: S. Pshennikov Bijdragers:Institut istorii…

In what may be the best single-volume introduction to military and civilian space flight, this up-to-date space primer from the Department of Defense provides comprehensive coverage of modern spaceflight principles and practices, with an extensive…

Le chemin du cosmos, le premier cosmonaute vous parle.Livre sur la carrière de Youri Gagarine, avec de très belles illustrations.

  As a crewmember of the D-2 shuttle mission and a full professor of astronautics at the Technical University in Munich, Ulrich Walter is an acknowledged expert in the field. He is also the author of a number of popular science books on space flight…

Few launch vehicles are as iconic and distinctive as NASA's behemoth rocket, the Saturn V, and none left such a lasting impression on those who watched it ascend. Developed with the specific brief to send humans to the Moon, it pushed rocketry to new…