"The most successful general survey of space history yet to
appear."
--The New York Times
"The most comprehensive history of humanity's efforts to explore
space ever to be crammed into a single volume."
--The Washington Post
Leaving Earth for the first time was the single greatest
achievement of the twentieth century. It was also an adventure of
Homeric proportions. This is the story, vividly told, of how it
happened. Here are American and Soviet politicians, scientists,
engineers, generals, and astronauts, dueling for prestige and
supremacy from within Earth's orbit to the Sea of Tranquility to
the beautiful but deadly plateaus of Venus. This New Ocean is the
first full account of how the Soviet space program really worked,
revealing why it was doomed to fall short of the Moon; why NASA has
always been driven by public relations; how science fiction
provided the blueprint for reality; what the military really has in
store for space; and how the migration of humans to Mars and beyond
has already begun.
A Notable Book of the Year --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year --Library Journal
"Burrows offers a complete, authoritative history of the technology
that allowed us to explore space and the people who created and
managed that technology. . . . For those who struggle to understand
the nature of humanity, it offers new insights into old paradoxes.
For those who ask where we are going, it offers hope."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[An] all-encompassing and splendidly written account."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch "From the Trade Paperback edition.
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