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Space exploration / David Ashcroft.

by Ashford, David, 1939-

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Hodder Education, 2013.

Manned space flight -- History.

Rocketry -- History.

Space colonies.

Outer space -- Exploration -- History.

Outer space -- Exploration.

All that matters.

9781444183832 (pbk.)

1444183834 (pbk.)

152 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Includes index.

Space exploration was perhaps mankind's greatest achievement of the twentieth century. Yet remarkably, in a world where most technology progresses constantly, space exploration appears to have gone backwards. Man has not returned to the moon since 1972; the space shuttle programme has finished and not been replaced; much-vaunted promises of space tourism have not become realistic. David Ashford looks back at the story of space exploration, identifying the factors that were a driving force behind the eye-catching programmes of the cold war, and showing how now new driving forces are needed. The author outlines a new, realistic roadmap for achieving the new space age soon and at an affordable cost.

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