Neufeld, Michael J. <br/><br/>
Spaceflight  : a concise history 

 - Cambridge  MIT Press  2018 
 - 233p. 
 - MIT Press Essential Knowledge series .
<br/><br/> 1: Spaceflight Dreams and Military Imperatives  2: The Cold War Space Race  3: Space Science and Exploration  4: A Global Space Infrastructure  5: Astroculture: Spaceflight and the Imagination  6: Human Spaceflight after the Cold War  Epilogue: The Past and Future of Spaceflight  
<br/><br/> This book provides a comprehensive history of spaceflight, highlighting the development of unmanned spacecraft since the 1960s and robotic deep-space exploration. The author discusses the origins of space ideas, the Cold War space race, Apollo's rationales, internationalization and privatization, space science fiction, and the popular desire to go into space. The author also discusses the cultural influence of space science fiction, space tourism, and the potential for multiplanet species. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262536332 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Space Flight-History<br/>Astronautics-United States-History<br/>Astronautics-Soviet Union-History<br/>Astronautics-Russia (Federation)<br/>Space Race-United States-History<br/>Space Race-Soviet Union-History<br/>Manned Space Flight-History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>629.41  / NEU