Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration
The Soviet Union achieved all the early‘firsts’ in lunar exploration, such as soft landing and orbiting the moon, and Brian Harvey will recount the frantic efforts to rival America’s Apollo and the dramatic hours of 21st July 1969, when Russia tried to soft land Luna 15 in the Sea of Crises even as...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY
Praxis
2007, 2007
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007 |
| Series: | Space Exploration
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Origins of the Soviet lunar programme
- The first moon probes
- Planning the lunar landing
- The soft- landers and orbiters
- The first cosmonauts to the moon
- Around the moon
- Samplers, rovers and orbiters
- Return to the moon
- List of all Soviet moon probes (and related missions)
- Bibliographical note and bibliography