Spacecraft Technology

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Spacecraft Technology is written by Mark Williamson and published by IET. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0863415539 (ISBN 10) and 9780863415531 (ISBN 13).

This book covers the development of space technology in the late 1950s and 1960s from the launch of Sputnik 1 in October 1957 to the landing of men on the moon in 1969. The text begins by looking at the challenge of getting into space and the development of the launch of the space launch vehicle, and moves on to discussion of unmanned satellites and spaceprobes, and the first capsules deployed in Earth orbit and the Apollo missions to the moon.