Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight

by Michael J. Neufeld

Book Overview

The recent 50th anniversaries of the first human spaceflights by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the 30th anniversary of the launching of the first U.S. Space Shuttle mission, have again brought to mind the pioneering accomplishments of the first quarter century of humans in space. Historians, political scientists and others have extensively examined the technical, programmatic and political history of human spaceflight from the 1960s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935623966
• ISBN13: 9781935623960
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher