China in Space: The Great Leap Forward
Rockets were invented in China, the home of many modern inventions, including ancient astronomy, and were used originally for military purposes in the 13th century. The Chinese space program was founded in October 1956 by the father of Chinese rocketry, Tsien Hsue Shen, who lived in California in the 1930s until his expulsion as a Chinese spy. In recent times there have been three manned spaceflights, highlighting China's ambitious space program and generating worldwide interest. Future missions are planned, including a mission to go to Mars.The explosive growth of China's innovative and rapidly developing space program in recent years has ma…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4614-5042-9
- EAN: 9781461450429
- Produktnummer: 13273817
- Verlag: Springer Nature
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 399 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.7 cm x D2.5 cm 689 g
- Auflage: 2013
- Gewicht: 689
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Brian Harvey is an established Praxis author of many books in the Springer-Praxis Space Exploration program on the Russian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, European space programs. He was the Editor of the Space Exploration 2007 annual and is Joint Editor of Space Exploration 2008 trivia. He has written many articles for 'Spaceflight' magazine, 'Orbit,' 'Astronomy and Space' and the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society and regular broadcasts on spaceflight for RTE, the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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